Congressman Al Green Attends the National Museum of African American History and Culture Dedication Ceremony

(Washington, DC)—On Saturday, September 24, 2016, Congressman Al Green (TX-09), the sponsor of H. Res 597, the Original Black History Month Resolution, attended the National Museum of African American History and Culture Dedication Ceremony. The museum is a part of the Smithsonian Institution and seeks to better illustrate American history through the exhibition of the African-American experience.

“The National Museum of African American History and Culture evinces the empirical evidence of why we must remind America that ‘Black Lives Matter.’ The museum chronicles the lives and stories of African Americans, who were enslaved, disenfranchised, lynched, and robbed of equal protection under the law. It shows centuries of efforts to obfuscate, obscure, and bury the truth about the daily lives, struggles, and contributions of African Americans,” Congressman Al Green said. “Those who, with malice aforethought, tried to bury the true history of African Americans in an earthly grave of lies must now realize that Carlyle is right, ‘No lie can live forever.’ Since its founding, our nation has been a work in progress, and I am honored to say that with the opening of this museum we have taken another important step in fully realizing that ‘African-American history is American history’ and that ‘Black Lives Matter.’”