Carrie taylor coteach a class about the new africanamerican history museum. Their joined by Lonnie Bunch who shares his experiences as the Founding Director of the national museum of africanamerican history and culture. Good afternoon. Welcome to the how and why, the making of the international Africanamerican Museum. Im carey taylor, associate professor or this history at the citadel, and joseph is reillys coteacher for this semesters exciting course. We will introduce our special guest this weekend, but first i wanted to briefly explain the format. Mayor reilly and secretary Lonnie Bunch will engage in a Fireside Chat9style Conversation after which well open it up for questions. We can ask that you put your questions in the chat function, and and ill relay those to Secretary Bunch. So with that, ill turn it over to my colleagues, mayor joseph reilly. Thank you, Professor Taylor and Secretary Bunch. [inaudible] the secretary of [inaudible] the director of the national Africanamerican
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