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Americans are bearing witness to a painful moment in our history, with thousands showing up day after day to protest police brutality and racial inequality, even in the midst of a pandemic. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, joins Dan to analyze how we may understand it when the present becomes past.
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