As President Trump calls for a “comprehensive review” of eight Smithsonian museums, we feature our 2020 interview with Lonnie G. Bunch III, the head of the Smithsonian. Amy Goodman interviewed him in Washington shortly after the publication of his book, A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump.

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