The Smithsonian Institution has begun public fundraising to build a museum dedicated to black history with a $5 million gift from Boeing Co.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is scheduled to open in 2015 on the National Mall near the Washington Monument. It will be the Smithsonian's 19th museum.
Museum Director Lonnie Bunch — formerly president of the Chicago Historical Society — is working to raise half the museum's $500 million cost, with the rest of the money coming from Congress.
The gift from Chicago-based Boeing is the museum's largest to date.
Isiah 1:17- Learn to do well. Seek justice, Relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, Plead for the widow.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Boeing gives black history museum $5M
Sounds good another reason to get back to Washington in the near future. I visited the White House and I would like to visit the US Capitol and some other sites that I wasn't able to my last vacation there. From Crain's today...
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