Over the past four years, a bronze-coloured building has taken root on the last available plot on the National Mall in Washington, dc. When its doors open in autumn 2016, the Smithsonian Institution will, at last, have a museum dedicated to African-American history and culture. A proposal to create a place celebrating black achievements was first mooted by a group of black civil-war veterans in 1915, so it is not without a certain understatement that the museum's deputy director, Kinshasha Hol-man Conwill, says it is an idea whose time has more than come.
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