welcome to the how and why, the making of the international african-american museum. i m carey taylor, associate professor or this history at the citadel, and joseph is reilly s co-teacher for this semester s 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 chat9-style conversation after which we ll open it up for questions. we can ask that you put your questions in the chat function, and and i ll relay those to secretary bunch. so with that, i ll 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 african-american museum of national history [inaudible] secretary bunch is the director of the chicago [audio difficulty] his connection [inaudible] [inaudible] mr. secretary, describe [inaudible] in many ways, i am so
and it belongs to all of the family learn more about first ladies online at c-span.org slash history. african-american museu m. good afternoon, welcome to the how and why, the making of the international african american museum. i m carrie taylor, an associate professor of history at the citadel. mayor joseph riley is co-teacher for the semesters exciting course. mayor riley will introduce our special guest for this weekend, but first i wanted to briefly explain today s format. mayor riley and secretary lonnie bunch will engage in a fireside chat style conversation, after which will open it up for questions. we ask that you put your questions in the chat function, and all relay those to secretary bunch. with that, i ll turn it over to my colleague, mayor joseph riley. thank you very much, professor taylor, doctor bunch. ladies and gentlemen, is a huge honor for me to introduce to you a great american, lonnie bunch, the second in the founding director of the national
And south dakota. The tri state governors conference is held every two years here ithe metro area. Larry teachers at Hunt Elementary School got some lessons in the art of acting today. Lessons that could help them in the classroom. A group of experts called a plus schools of north carolina. Showed the teachers creative ways to educate students through the use of drama lessons. Dance. Theater, and visual arts. That includes presenting a play about the civil war era. Which will be presented to 5th grade students who are taking social studies. You want students to come to school, and you want them to feel engaged, you want them to feel like theyre in a place where something exciting and fun is going to happen and where theyre, obviously, where theyre learning and achieving. The a plus Schools Program is the largest and longest running artsbased reform effort in the nation. The program was started in 1995. Larry its a new twist to a city. The annual super latke lat key fundraiser for congr
Means to be american. Sudden and since, the best museums in history help us recognize that the story that we tell, regardless of what the community is, the stories of us and inform us will make us better as a nation. I think part of what youre doing is you are illuminating some of the dark corners of the american experience. In many ways, the discussion around slavery, slave trade, and really the origin of americas contested. Some people dont want to have these conversations. Yet, i would argue that you cant understand who you are as americans, not understanding that early history. You cant understand how our politics, really our foreign policy, our culture was shaped by slavery and struggles over slavery. In many, ways i think the work that you are doing is really valuable because it really allows us to understand something that often we dont Pay Attention to. The other piece i think is so important is that part of what we are trying to do is make sure that people understand how this
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 Museum of National History [inaudible] secretary bunch is the director of the chicago [audio difficulty] his connection [inaudible] [inaudi