The National Memorial For Peace And Justice. Photo: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images.
"As a poet, as a scholar and professor, and now as president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, I have long explored answers to this question: 'What can we do to create a commemorative landscape that speaks to the complexity of our history, educates us to better understand our collective past, and reflects the rich multiplicity of the American story?'"
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