Posts Tagged ‘Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’

Gates Foundation Gives $10 Million to Smithsonian African American History Museum

In History, News, Opinion, Politics, Racism on 15 October 2009 tagged 2012, African-American, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, DCist, National Mall, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture with no comments

Does anyone else find it slightly funny that the United States is slated to begin construction on an African American History Museum the same year the world is supposed to end? In a major vote of confidence for the planned Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [...]