Millionth visitor through these doors. Tonight we will take you through the doors of this museum that chronic will the American Experience and also telling a shared american story. Well be live for the next 2. 5 hours. In 40 minutes well be tabbing your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. Were joined inside with Robert Wilkins to talk about how this me psi seeium came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth. Thanks very much for being with us. Thank you. Its a pleasure to be here. So talk of this museum began back in 1960 teen. It took a century to be built. Walk us through the process. Back in early 1916, in march or so, gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee, created a nonprofit called the National Memorial association, and its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the Nations Capital to hont contributions of negro soldiers and sailors who had fought never war from the ref liegs nary war up until that time. Within a couple years the Organization
Millionth visitor through these doors. Tonight we will take you through the doors of this museum that chronic will the American Experience and also telling a shared american story. Well be live for the next 2. 5 hours. In 40 minutes well be tabbing your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. Were joined inside with Robert Wilkins to talk about how this me psi seeium came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth. Thanks very much for being with us. Thank you. Its a pleasure to be here. So talk of this museum began back in 1960 teen. It took a century to be built. Walk us through the process. Back in early 1916, in march or so, gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee, created a nonprofit called the National Memorial association, and its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the Nations Capital to hont contributions of negro soldiers and sailors who had fought never war from the ref liegs nary war up until that time. Within a couple years the Organization
You are looking at the National Museum of African American history and culture on the mall in washington dc. It is the newest smithsonian museum. It welcomed its one millionth visitor this week. We will take you inside the Museum Gallery for a look at the stories at artifacts that chronicle the africanamerican experience and tell a shared american story. We will be live for the next 2. 5 hours. We will be taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts. We are joined with judge Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth, the 100 year mission to create the National Museum of African American history and culture. Talk of this museum began back in 1916. It took a century to be built. Walk us through the process. Judge wilkins in early 1916, a gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee created a nonprofit called the National Memorial association. Its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the Nations Capital to honor the co
Of singer songwriter Leonard Cohen who died thursday, age 82. Charlie interviewed him for cbs night watch on this day in 1988. There is something that is wonderful about finishing a song youve labored on with a kind of care and intensity. You know that if youre going to be singing a song for the next 20 years, you want to be sure that you can get behind every word, and i have a lot of songs that i can still get behind because i brought that kind of attention to the lyric. And we conclude with Nobel Laureate eric kandel who talks about his new book which explores the relationship between art and Brain Science. In science, particularly Brain Science, we want to understand how the human mind works, what could be more central. In art, we want to understand how people respond to works about how the imagination works, how we can stimulate the imagination. One to have the things that are pleasing to people, those are really important questions. What enriches your life. Veterans, Leonard Cohen
Of singer songwriter Leonard Cohen who died thursday, age 82. Charlie interviewed him for cbs night watch on this day in 1988. There is something that is wonderful about finishing a song youve labored on with a kind of care and intensity. You know that if youre going to be singing a song for the next 20 years, you want to be sure that you can get behind every word, and i have a lot of songs that i can still get behind because i brought that kind of attention to the lyric. And we conclude with Nobel Laureate eric kandel who talks about his new book which explores the relationship between art and Brain Science. In science, particularly Brain Science, we want to understand how the human mind works, what could be more central. In art, we want to understand how people respond to works about how the imagination works, how we can stimulate the imagination. One to have the things that are pleasing to people, those are really important questions. What enriches your life. Veterans, Leonard Cohen