Lonnie Bunch III Takes Helm Of The Smithsonian: 'I Feel The Weight Of History'
The founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture will become the Smithsonian Institution's first African American secretary.
Lonnie Bunch III's interest in the past began with an incomplete story. His grandfather, a sharecropper-turned-dentist, would read history books to him, and Bunch would wonder why the pictures of black children contained little detail â why the captions simply read "unknown children" or "anonymous."
The founding director of the , Bunch has dedicated his life to telling a fuller, rounder
