Lonnie Bunch III's interest in the past began with an incomplete story. His grandfather, a sharecropper-turned-dentist, would read history books to him, and Bunch would wonder why the pictures of ...

Lonnie G. Bunch III is running fast through his childhood neighborhood in Belleville, N.J., running from a crowd of teenagers. “Catch the n-----” they shout, chasing 10-year-old Lonnie, who is ...

Lonnie Bunch, the founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Chicago in 2014. By Steve Johnson. UPDATED: May 28, 2019 at 6:34 PM CDT.

Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, discussed leadership and public history with Jason Grumet of the Bipartisan Policy Center.