International African American Museum

Now, I'm brand new to Medicare as my main coverage.

I worked for the International African American Museum through the end of June.

So I was on my work health care plan.

So Medicare became my primary insurance just in this past July.

I was all over the place.

Friday, I had to go to Charleston, South Carolina, because, you know, I'm on the board of the International African American Museum.

So they had their homecoming this weekend.

I was down there.

[bomb exploding] Friday.

Yes, Friday I was, uh, at the International Afri- Was, I was down there for the International African American Museum's homecoming.

Correct.

Yeah, so I was the deputy grand marshal, so I kicked things off, um, this weekend.

... where I had the kids' activities.

Uh, my daughter had, uh, a cheerleading showcase yesterday, but then also Friday and Saturday I had to do my other duties.

'Cause I'm on the board of the International African American Museum, and I'm on the board of the United Justice Coalition, so I gotta do my board duties.

Oh, yeah.

This has happened before in 2019.

The LDS Church gave a $2 million donation to a museum that has since been built called the International African American Museum.

There's a beautiful building in South Carolina, and the donation was for a genealogical center powered by FamilySearch, which does exist there, and they have volunteers that help run it, and patrons go in, they create FamilySearch accounts, and they input information, they search for their ancestors.

It's actually a really awesome tool for people to use.

We're really excited to be able to present it now.

So back in the summer, there was a lot of buzz.

Most of you probably saw it around the International African American Museum in Charlottesville, South Carolina.

And that opened on June 24th, as I said, 2023 last summer.

Now, this weekend is one of your homecomings.

It is homecoming for the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina.

Mm-hmm.

And today we have the good sister, Dr. Tonya Matthews.

She is the president and CEO of the International African American Museum.

I'm s- I'm, I'm serving as one of the grand marshals, uh, this weekend, so I'll be there, uh, actually tomorrow.

Okay.

Okay.

Everybody be safe out there.

But deeper than the surface level, I had a really interesting conversation today [lips smack] about homecoming and the International African American Art Museum in South Carolina.

They are doing a homecoming of their own, uh, which you guys will hear more about on The Breakfast Club this week.

But that conversation really made me think about the lineage of us as Black people and where, um...

Just a, a lot of things of that nature.

But thinking of homecoming and speaking about these homecomings, it makes me think about the lineage of our joy.

[lips smack] And I told myself after the conversation I had today, um, about the African American, um, Museum in South Carolina, and speaking to Dr. Tonya, Dr. Tonya M. Matthews, who is the CEO and president of the International African American Museum down there in Charleston, South Carolina, that I was gonna do more to invest in or just take the time for figuring out, uh, what, w- what the lineage of my joy is.

My aunt actually wrote a book Phyllis Tucker Saunders.

I'ma be in Charleston this weekend, man.

Uh, this weekend is the, uh, International African American Museum's homecoming, so they got a whole weekend of events from Thursday to Sunday, and I'm gonna be down there, uh, Friday doing something with the International African American Museum.

All right.

You know, the silent parties kind of went away.

It is not overnight for sure.

You know, I think the most favorite museum that I have ever gone to was the International African American Museum in Charleston.

And because one of the things you can do there, you can trace your lineage and do genealogical research.

They've made it very simple and easy.