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Taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. Were joined inside with Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth. Thanks very much for being with us. Thank you. Its a pleasure to be here. So talk of this museum began back in 1916. It took a century to be built. Walk us through the process. Back in early 1916, in march or so, gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee, created a nonprofit called the National Memorial association, and its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the Nations Capital to honor the cont...

Culture. We look at exhibits and artifacts chronicling the africanamerican story from slavery through the inauguration of the first africanamerican president. And we talk to Museum Specialists. This is American History tv, only on cspan3. You are looking at the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture on the mall in washington, d. C. It is the newest Smithsonian Museum opening back in september. And this week it welcomed its 1 millionth visitor through these doors. Tonight we will take you through the doors of this museum that for artifacts that chronicled the africanamerican exp...

Asked to make a difference in the outcomes of our children. The Graduation Rate and the dropout rates. We were not able to make as deep of an impact as we are now because we have the center. And i just wanted to give some testimony to your comment or question, my son, marciano, who is in the audience, and he often gets the calendar of the month, places it on the refrigerator and thats his goto spot. What is going on today . Im there. Yesterday as we were sitting there in the center, we were talking about what the late mayor ed lee and how he supported us and just because he has that center, he...

A city that has no space for anyone. And yet our children make their way from all the schools to spend time together. To be supported. To know more than words. Theres genuine care. Were a family. Were relatives. Were healing with each other and that space allows us to do so. In terms of the space allowing the program to expand, four years ago there was no space. Four years ago, we were being asked to make a difference in the outcomes of our children. The Graduation Rate and the dropout rates. We were not able to make as deep of an impact as we are now because we have the center. And i just wan...

All right. Thank you very much for that. Can i substitute . No, im sorry. Thank you. All right. Commissioners, comments, questions . Commissioner walton . President walton thank you for coming tonight. One statement and a question. Its good to see you collaborating and going off on trips together and working together and hopefully we can see more of that collaboration. And then just a question on slide 9. We dont see Graduation Rates for 16 17. Are we waiting on those . Okay. Commissioner murase thank you. I was on the board when the facility having an Indian Education center, a physical space...