To mark this month’s opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, we interviewed folks visiting the National Mall about what they would like to ask the museum’s experts.

American Experience interviewed writer, Vernon Jarrett, in 1999. Below, read excerpts from his interview. What was it like to be African American in the late 1930s? Well, I was rather young in the ...

Many African-American women were delighted when a mixed-race American woman married a real prince - but times have changed. The Oscar-winning actor and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, both died of ...

The first African American president and the first black principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater have much more in common than their success. Both have risen to the pinnacle of ...

West appears on the computer screen for an interview. He’s sitting in his ... I acquired a watch locket with four dags of African American people,” West says, using the nickname for ...

The African American history museum is singled out ... through an African American lens,” Bunch told USA TODAY in a 2016 interview months before the museum opened to much fanfare.

Singling out the African American history museum The African American ... African-American lens,” Bunch told USA TODAY in a 2016 interview months before the museum opened to much fanfare.