![]() ![]() So I’m excited to be the center of that.” ![]() In my own writing and the work I do currently, it’s something that I’ve been thinking a lot about: How do we tell our story and its place in this long conversation? I think that’s happening and happening with more urgency now. “And now that it has, it’s just been incredible to watch from afar for the past four years how it’s told this story about American culture and history and its centrality to American history and the American experience. “It’s obviously been a long time coming in terms of the museum finding its place on the mall,” Young said in a recent phone interview. ![]() Next year, he’ll take over the country’s foremost collection of African American history, looking for ways to tell stories and reach students and researchers as the “Blacksonian,” as it’s known colloquially, continues its attempts to expand its reach in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. He’s also the poetry editor for The New Yorker. In 2016, Young was named director of New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, part of the New York Public Library. The prolific writer and editor of 20-plus volumes also has a new anthology: African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song. Kevin Young will take over as the second director of Washington’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in January. ![]()
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