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A room at the Tenement Museum in an as-yet unrestored space that will be dedicated to a 19th-century Black waiter, Joseph Moore, and his family, in New York, May 27, 2021. As the museum prepares to celebrate its reopening, it is researching an apartment re-creation dedicated to a Black family, introducing a neighborhood walking tour called Reclaiming Black Spaces and revising all of its apartment tours to look more squarely at the ways that race and racism shaped the opportunities open to the mostly white immigrants whose struggle and striving is explored there. (Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times.