![]() Um, DC's a little quiet, but you know, we just had a hip hop block party that was really successful the first will do. ![]() Kevin: Uh, well I'm at the museum, which is always nice - and staring at the Washington Monument as we speak. He also shares his belief in the power of unexpected transformations, which songs have brought him comfort and how it's always easiest to write about the place you've just. I was so pleased to meet him and to hear how he holds these responsibilities and likens reading a poem to entering into a museum. , as well as the poetry editor for the New Yorker magazine. My guest today is the poet, Kevin Young, and he holds dual gatekeeping roles as both the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture I am Helga Davis and welcome to my show of Conversations with Extraordinary People. Helga: We often hear about gatekeepers these days, people in positions of power who determine what we see and hear and how we understand our world. And how do we understand that? And being at the museum or writing histories, um, which I've done both in poetry and in non-fiction, are ways of trying to understand that To say we're living in a precedent time, not an unprecedented one. Kevin: You know, a hundred years ago there were racial unrest and also racial violence against black folks that, whether it's the Tulsa massacre or the red summer of 1919, there was, uh, pandemic we were getting over. ![]()
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