Barack Obama closed the ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition on Tuesday afternoon in conversation with Smithsonian secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III. Obama discussed his memoir, A Promised Land, as well as the importance of museums and libraries, and issues including Black Lives Matter and the January 6 insurrection. “One of the things I worry about both in our country and around the world,” he said, “and I write about this in A Promised Land, is the rise of certainty that there is this unbridgeable distinction between us and them.” Restoring the US, he said, will take not just a reaffirmation […]
