National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- On Saturday, September 24, 2016, the public witnessed the outdoor dedication ceremony of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
This museum is a monument to the men and the women who courageously planted themselves so we all could become their fruit. Thank you.
I would love to one day visit this museum
Can't have enough African history. It reaches beyond America.
I am Black, and I am proud ! ❤❤❤Thankful recognition 👏
DEFINITELY ON MY BUCKET LIST OF THINGS TO CHECK OUT WHEN I VISIT THE U.S. NEXT YEAR!! 🙏🏾 #BlackAndProud #Black365
Get your Time Passes ahead of time (build your vacay around them).
It is because of African American contributions that helped to create the society we live in today.
Such an incredible experience!
Thank you. I can't wait to visit the Museum. Another good excuse to go back to DC that I loved since I came 5 years ago ...
The President's speech and President Bush's were very moving.
U need to go at least twice to soak it all in. The exhibit Middle Passage (Slavery and Freedom) will stir some emotions in you.
this was a mountaintop experience that will forever be remembered with gratitude and pride. John Robert Browne II
I am a charter member
I saw some artifacts last October
The ceremony was awesome
I coming in November to bring my grandchildren and my man
Here 2018 still pulls my heart strings
Merci à toutes celles et tous ceux qui ont œuvré pour la création de ce grand musée aux USA. Ça fait plaisir de voir cela!
I sit and watch this video occasionally I cannot wait to tour this museum for my people .
Beautiful opening ceremonies!
thank you for posting this, great
Thank you....so much.
...yes, Colin Powell, by all means was a great man.
His funeral for public viewing is scheduled to be at the Washington Cathedral in D.C. 11/5/2021.
Excellent, Thank You
Lovely performances. Excellent song Stevie Wonder. Sing that song Ms. Patti Labelle.
We're not a stain or a pity, or a charity for America, we are America....President Barack Obama (1st African American President of the United States of America) I thought this would be another "something" to make me angry about the "Black Experience", but I have a change of heart after watching this. This is a worthy watch, and more so a worthy share. Please Share because this is the patriotic thing to do.
I will have the upmost respect for this museum if they have Claudette Colvin there. ❤ Rosa did her part but took all the credit. Other than that, amazing ceremony arranged by Quincy Jones. ❤
I worked at the opening of the African American History Museum in Washington D.C.
Thumbs up to former President Bush. His speech was beautiful. Just right.
How wonderful
So Great, So Great.
#wow; #PRAISEGOD; #grateful
Maravilloso!
45:40 What is that Stevie Wonder playing.
Did he create that instrument..?
Our story will be told until Jesus-Christ returns. Let us hold on to the faith of our forefathers and so be saved.
Amen!
I admit Mr. President Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama knows how to bring it. True Roots.
That museum and the people it represents he has NO connection to. Except his wife and now his kids
@@YouGotOptions2 Nonsense.
#blackandproud #blacklivesmatter 💜💜💜💜💜✊✊✊✊✊
Today we need to come together as nation and community there are no black no white no brown. All I see is humans beings. I'm so proud of my brothers. Let's make this nation the example to others. We all are equal.
You trippin
Wow, WHAT a ceremony! And even ole W didn't mess it up- LOL!
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#PRIDE IS UNDERSTATEMENT
When you do African American museum can you start doing current events? Michael Jordan. Muhammad Ali. Recent success by The Obamas?
Obama isnt African American
@@YouGotOptions2 He is.
I'm thinking
The human story👏, history, his story, GOD's🙌 story. 🤗
The bells 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹❤️🤌🏾
Some things that don't get talked about in our public schools nor hardly mentioned of but let me give you just a little bit of this history that's called soil, America's soil where a black man been learning day&night how to survive on this American soil. When we are born as a black child we are already judged by the color of our skin, not even given a chance to come up and bat but knowing at an early age that it is an invisible battle we must continue to fight for equality and justice on this American soil but still dying at the hands of a white man. This dying invisible thing is fiscally, mentally, emotionally, and abusively motivated by the ones who HATE the color of our skin tones of dark chocolate, light chocolate and just chocolate and which we are satisfying and sweet to the soul like sweet berry juice. So let us not start NOW to give up on each other but let the FIGHT begin with us UNITING with NEW CHAINS that's called hand&hand my brothers and sisters on this American history land which we been part of since the beginning when our feet touched the American soil barefooted not like the whit6man in shoes but with our bare skin, so yes we was the second after the Indians to touch this American soil. Must we FIGHT, I say yes we must FIGHT because we just know how. May GOD our FATHER be with us all through CHRIST JESUS and the GOOD of the HOLY GHOST SPIRIT Amennn
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Will be free some day that is a telling. Bless one & all.
#RIPJohnLewis
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I HAVE NO COMMENTS. I WAS TAUGHT TO KEEP IT TO YOURSELF IF IT IS NOT NICE.
George W. Bush???😕
Quite a shock to me also but as President it would've looked real funky if he did nothing.
Why?
Beautiful❤️ Someone should tell Kanye West to watch this and get more educated of history before opening his mouth.
Perhaps he was never taught social awareness. Sad, very sad.
black american museum not african
Thanks to Bush you were great and still are.
It with the thanks of a lot of people & don't forget Lil Ricky and the millions who donated money. Bush is just one in the number of many.
Bush não representa nada que nós acreditamos, foi chamado pela sua posição de ex presidente.
A time when the rope was in ya'll hands at the end was a black man dead on the other end, now in a new day and different time without the rope in ya'll hands but still a black man dying with an invisible rope in ya'll hands hanging black men on the other end
“Hey kids, you weren’t raised to be racist, so here’s a racist museum that’s not racist because they’re black.” “But dad, isn’t recognizing one race over another racist?” “Exactly.”
Find a local library.
@@arikkraft5755 I did. Every page was black and white. That must be racist too.
ua-cam.com/video/TympHezgqhI/v-deo.html This might help.
Nonsense. The Museum of the American Indian and the Asian art museum are also on the Mall. Are they each also one race "over another"? Think before you post.
#ADOS history
To be honest I always liked bush but I couldn't stomach Cheney .
Not sure if yoll are hip to this but, the Wayne train with women is getting old now. For real. Can we have one couple with a real mature and loving relationship? Damn
Patti Labell should be ashamed of herself. How could you use our dedication to our story and how we made strides regardless of being 3rd class citizens (descendants of enslaved Africans) and use THAT song to promote that wicked woman for the white house. How could you? And those who stood and clapped for that shameful display need to think about what that wicked women has done and continues to do (Haiti) to our people. She called our sons "super predators" and laughed about killing a world leader (Libya).
I agree
Speak for yourself. Is your son a vicious and violent criminal? When you say "our sons", who exactly are you talking about? The sons of Black people in general? If so, you are being much more broad in your assertion than Hillary Clinton was. HRC was not talking about black people in general, but rather, she was referring to a specific criminal element that was permeating our communities at the time. You need to go back and listen to the WHOLE comment in proper context so you can stop misrepresenting.
Really??????
Must be a small museum. Not many achievements to celebrate besides Jessy Owens, George Washington Carver, Black Jack Persing, and Sugar Ray Robinson. Why does it need to be about blacks? Why not just put the shit in a regular museum without segregating themselves and saying theyre better than everyone? They want equality but yhey refuse to treat others equally
Tell that to the Indian and Asian museums which are also on the Mall. Wanna whine about them too?
@@Watkinsstudio A black museum with indian and asian accomplishments...LoL...They completely marginalized those accomplishments by putting them in a black museum. That further proves my statement about not treating others equally. If it were equal then it would be an "American Minority Museum" not simply a black museum
@@Cereal_Killer007 You're comments are illogical, as the Museum of The American Indian does not include Black or Asian accomplishments. The Asian museum doesn't include Black or Indian history, art or artifacts. I know because I've been to all of them and I pay attention.
@@Watkinsstudio exactly my point, they knew that putting someone elses accomplishments in their museum would trivialize them. This also proves my point that black people didnt have enough accomplishments to fill their own museum so they used indians and asians
@@Cereal_Killer007 You have no point. Indians and Asians have the same arrangements. They show their own accomplishments, art and history. Whine on about them too if that bothers you. There's nothing you can to stop any of those museums from separately presenting their material.
Your comments are all the more irrelevant since you have not been to the National African American museum. And if you've been to the other two museums do tell what you saw.
Now we need a European-American art museum. Just to be fair. DC already has an African-American art museum, a museum for art specifically from Africa itself, and at least one exhibit in the National Museum of Natural History dedicated to Africa, along with African-American artists represented in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art, even though the latter two are mostly European or European-American.
There is an Asian Art and culture museum and a museum of the American Indian on the Mall. Go complain to them as well and cry us a river.
@@Watkinsstudio I know. All the more reason we need a European-American museum too.
@@Aristocles22 If you walk around, you will find that almost EVERY other museum IS in fact a European-American museum. This is the historical injustice that they try to even out a tiny little bit with this magnificent building in Chicago
@@profahn7353 That's not true at all. Plenty of museums in the US are dedicated to non-whites.
George W Bush ✌
GO OBAMA
Them singing the national anthem was some bullshit..... They should have sang Lift ever voice and sing. Every time they sing the national anthem at anything represents racism.
Thank you!
I cringed when I saw the pledge part there but blacks truly made America great.
This dude is sneaking a sermon in....smh...they asked him to pray...
Statue of liberty isn't one person per say though a Goddess. minus lanny aka lammy aka minused 2318 in illegal actions, plans & past affrimations.
-2two3 gun not a master not a shrub New town shoetor behind the computors program to blame others
They are all murderers?
This museum has one major problem -- its architecture is a blight on the mall. If they were going to put something next to the Washington Monument, a very risky move no matter how nice it might be, they needed to achieve an excellence that is rarely met. Even the WWII addition was mistake, and that is quite nicely done. This is a modernist piece of trash and it doesn't matter what the purpose of the building is, it cannot overcome the sheer ugliness of it. From the video here, it is not as apparent, since it just looks like another abysmal post-modernist pile of junk building, but when compared with the beauty of the rest of the Mall, the Washington Monument, the Capitol in the distance, the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, yes, even the WWII Memorial, it out of place, and also as if someone were attempting to drag down the overall beauty of the balance and grandeur of its surroundings.
some one is not having a good day
Nonsense. This museum building is a beauty. It's about time to put fresh designs on the Mall.
@@Watkinsstudio Some folks will say that architecture, like art, is purely subjective. I am not one of them. I keep waiting for this building and it's squat form, ghastly color, and excessive and garish facade to grow on me, the way the Vietnam War Memorial. It has not. Those who made this decision have no excuse -- it was not rushed, it was left to a competition, they awarded it to an African American firm, in what was likely pure affirmative action (aka "racism"). They blew it.
They put the thing in a place where no building should be, it mars the landscape and the empty area around the Washington Monument that gives (or gave) it an unobstructed view from every direction. I lived in DC for many years, and worked close enough to be able to walk, and lunch, on the Mall. The difference is stark. One might be able to get used to a blight, just as one gets used to a scar, and maybe when the trees grow in to hide some of its hideous outer appearance, the effect will be less noticeable, but this is what happens when those who are looking for something "fresh" forget that it also has to be "good".
@@graterdeddly9527 "Good" is subjective.
@@Watkinsstudio In some things. Here it is not. The building reminds of the people who used to say that about public housing when it first went up: "you don't understand art or architecture, it's the newest thing -- brutalist architecture." It was garbage. This building is garbage -- and it has nothing to do with "that's just your opinion". It has to do with the evolution of aesthetics, taste, and good judgement.