It is the latest attraction on Washington’s National Mall, known as “America’s Front Yard”.

And with racial tensions high in the United States, the new “National Museum of African American History and Culture”:https://nmaahc.si.edu/ opens on Saturday, at a critical time.

The trials and tribulations of the African American experience are told as well as the community’s contribution to life in the US in exhibitions designed to resonate with everyone.

==Smithsonian's newest museum…
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