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mitteeforthe Rev. AlSharpton’s
possible presidential campaign
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in his introductory black stud
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West said he had been “dis
honored,” and threatened to
leave for Princeton. Acquain
tances have said there is little
chance that West, who is on
leave recovering from prostate
cancer, will return to Harvard.
Appiah, theonly professorwho
has made the move, said he had
nogrudgeagainst Summersand
left for personal reasons.
Three days after he an
nounced his departure,
Harvard said it had hired
Michael C. Dawson, an expert
inblack political behavior from
the University of Chicago.
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Commission to draw up plans for nat’l
museum of black history and culture
By DEBORAH KONG
AP Minority Issues Writer
SAN FRANCISCO
U.S. Rep. John Lewis envi
sions a slave ship exhibit, de
picting the passage from West
Africa to America.
The chairman of Howard
University’s Afro-American
studies department, Russell
Adams, wantstobesurethere’s
aplacefor thestories of today’s
black middleclassand the prob
lems of the black underclass.
The challenges of capturing
all the triumphs and tragedies
of American blacks in the first
National Museum of African
American History and Culture
are just starting to emerge as
the project crawls forward from
concept to reality.
It should “tell the story of
African-Americans from the
days of slavery to the present,”
said Lewis, a civil rights leader
and longtime proponent of a
national black museum.
“Part of that story has not
been told, and in America so
many people grew up ... with
out knowing the contributions
of their fellow Americans.”
A 23-member museum com
mission was created under leg
islation sponsored by Lewis, a
Democrat from Georgia, and
signed into law by President
George W. Bush in December.
Its members are expected to
benamedin the next few weeks.
They will have dirs 2 million
and nine months to come up
with a plan for establishing the
national museum in Washing
ton.
Specifically, they will have to
AUGUSTA FOCUS
report on the availability and
cost of collections that would be
housedinthemuseum, whereit
wouldbelocated and whoshould
operate it.
Most supporters agree the
museum should be broadly fo
cused. But figuring out how to
tell the story of the black expe
rience in America can beadeli
cate issue, Adams said.
“If the museum picks the big
themes of the evolution of the
society, they can tell a story
that hassunshineandshadows
without aggravating race rela
tions. That’s always a prob
lem,” Adams said.
People “don’t want to come
to Washington and come out of
the museum in tears, or come
out of the museum wanting to
hit somebody.”
Frederick DouglasslV, presi
dent of Friends of the National
Museum of African American
History and Culture, envisions
a place that would be interac
tiveand appeal toyoungpeople.
“I'wouldn’t want it to just be
a dusty display of books and
some old clothes and some pho
tographs on the wall,” said
Douglass, who regularly per
formsreenactments of his abo
litionist great-great
grandfather’slife. “I want it to
come off the walls.”
Many involved in the project
also agree the museum should
be placed on the well-traveled
National Mall.
But according to the
Smithsonian Institution, the
only space left on the Mall is in
the red-brick Arts and Indus
tries building, which is more
than 120 years old and would
needtoberenovated extensively
to house fragile collections.
Thecommissionwillalsohave
to address how a national mu
seum would affect other black
history museums. There are
more than 200 such local and
regional museums, historicsites
and galleries, said Rita Organ,
former president of the Associa
tion of African American Muse
ums.
While the association fully
supports a national museum,
she said, it also is concerned
about whether a national mu
seum would divert federal and
private money away from the
other institutions.
This isn’t the first time a
commission hasstudied thecre
ation of a national black mu
seum. A plan in 1929 never got
off the ground, said Robert
Wilkins, president of the Na
tional African American Mu
seum & Cultural Complex, a
group he created to advocate
for a national museum.
“Ishouldn’t have tobe doing
this, and others shouldn’t have
to be doing this in 2002, but
we’re going to see it through,”
said Wilkins, who left hisjob as
a public defender to devote all
his attention to the museum
project.
“There’s a long history with
this, and unfortunately it’s a
long history of neglect.”
Other minorities say they,
too, have been overlooked. For
years, the Hispanic community
has advocated for its own mu
seum. Theblackmuseum’sstep
forward “magnifiestheneglect
ofthe Latinocommunity,” said
Raul Yzaguirre, president of
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Captive’s fate still unknown
This is one of the photos emailed to The Washington Post
Saturday, Jan. 26,2002, showing a man identified in the
email as Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl witha
gun held to his head. The Wall Street Journal reported
Sunday, Jan. 27, on its Web site that a group claimed to
have seized Pearl who was missing in Pakistan since
Wednesday, Jan. 23. Steven Goldstein, a vice president
of Dow Jones & Co., the Journal’s owner, said the photo
graphs appear to be legitimate but would not be
distributedby his organization. AP Photo/The Washington Post
theNational Council of La Raza,
a Hispanic advocacy group.
“Not having a presence in the
nation’s capital is a travesty.”
Supporters say they’re en
couraged that thistime thereis
bipartisan support for theblack
history museum; the bill set
ting up the commission also
was sponsored by Republican
Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma.
This fall, thecommission will
submit its recommendations.
Afterthat, Congresswould have
topasslegislation tocreateand
fund a museum.
“This business of creating a
nationalmuseumisalong-term
undertaking,” said Claudine
Brown, a former Smithsonian
staffer who researched the fea
sibility of anational museumin
the 19905. “The longer we wait
to make this happen, the more
people will die who have very
unique stories to tell.”