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Washington (USA), May 14 (EFE / EPA) .- (CAMERA: Shawn Thew) The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, owner of the largest museum complex in the world and one of the main attractions to visit the US capital, reopened several of its centers Friday, as a symbol of the return to normality in the United States.Keywords: efe, international, epa, usa, washington, reopening, museums
Celebrities including Angela Bassett speak at the opening ceremony of the National Museum of African-American History. Rough Cut (no reporter narration) .
U.S. President Barack Obama, at the opening of the National Museum of African-American History, hails the new institution as a showcase for the “sufferings” and “triumphs” of African-Americans. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
In his weekly address U.S. President Barack Obama welcomes the opening of the National Museum of African American History as an opportunity to educate Americans about the country's complex racial history. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
King George, Sep 15 (EFE/EPA).- A group of headstones of African Americans who once marked graves at Columbian Harmony Cemetery, a historic African-American cemetery in Washington D.C., are waiting to be returned to Maryland from the state of Virginia. When an entrepreneur purchased the Columbian Harmony property in 1960, most of the 37,000 buried remains were moved to Maryland. But many of the tombstones were sold to a farmer in rural Virginia, who used them as a breakwater to control erosion in the Potomac River. In 2016, Virginia State Senator Richard Stuart discovered the tombstones while walking through his newly purchased riverfront property. Stuart worked with the governor's office and local historians to link them to the Washington Cemetery D.C., and move them to the memorial garden in Maryland.(Camera: JIM LOSCALZO) SHOT LIST: THE TOMBSTONES BEFORE BEING TRANSPORTED TO MARYLAND.
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