Museums are curating an era of social movements in real time
As Black Lives Matter protests erupted in 2014 after a police officer killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in D.C. sent curators to collect t-shirts and gas masks — artifacts it could preserve to inform future generations. From the pushback to President Trump’s immigrant family separation policy to viral social media posts, it and other museums are anticipating the value of documenting unrest in real time. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano reports.