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Top Shot: Shadow Falls

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A small Southern Beech tree silhouetted against the Devil’s Punchbowl waterfall in Arthur’s Pass National Park. Photograph by Wynston Cooper

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Curators have collected more than thirty-five thousand objects from across the country. Michael Jordan and Oprah Winfrey have provided funds. Ahead of its September opening, Vinson Cunningham goes inside the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Read the full story on what it took to build the first ever museum dedicated to black history. 

First ever museum dedicated to black history.