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Black History Month How it began . check this website http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmintro1.html Congress Approves Black History Museum (also see Museums Page) "The museum, to be called the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, is expected to take several years and more than $400 million to build, said one of the bill's supporters, Senator Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania." It will be part of the Smithsonian Institution. A separate museum on the black American experience can be justified, given the central significance of slavery in American history and the extraordinary efforts of Americans to listen to the better angels of our nature and create a nation based on the principles of the Declaration of Independence. But the likelihood the endeavor will be ideologically tainted is unavoidable; simply consider the dubious quality of the American History museum's frequent assaults on American political principles and just plain history. The best result to come of a black American history museum would be its simplicity-- a plain retelling of the black experience with a minimum of embellishment. By way of advice, note the exchange between John Eastman (see The Remedy, Sept. 6and me about the new museum on the Constitution, in Philadelphia. Send us a profile of your city ATA Events in 34 Cities since 1975 Nairobi, Kenya Abidjan, Ivory Coast Sousse, Tunisia Monastir, Tunisia Tangier, Morocco Libreville, Gabon Lusaka, Zambia Lome, Togo Cairo, Egypt Banjul, The Gambia Douala, Cameroon Harare, Zimbabwe Casablanca, Morocco Saly, Senegal Dakar, Senegal Accra, Ghana Windhoek, Namibia Marrakech, Morocco Cotonou, Benin Arusha, Tanzania Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Abuja, Nigeria Cape Town, South Africa Yaounde, Cameroon Conakry, Guinée Fez, Morocco Livingstone, Zambia Nelspruit, South Africa Zanzibar, Tanzania m Dar es Sallam, Tanzania Kampala, Uganda Luanda, Angola Lagos, Nigeria Lake Region, Nigeria