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Busboys and Poets Books welcomes NMAAHC Founding Director, Lonnie G Bunch III to discuss his new book A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture during the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump. The author will be in conversation with Democracy Now! Host, Amy Goodman.

In its first four months of operation, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture surpassed one million visits and quickly became a cherished, vital monument to the African American experience. And yet this accomplishment was never assured. In A Fool's Errand, founding director Lonnie Bunch tells his story of bringing his clear vision and leadership to bear to realize this shared dream of many generations of Americans.