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Obama opens US black history museum

Video. Obama opens US black history museum

Updated: 24/09/2016 - 21:43 GMT+2

President Obama has formally opened the US National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington – nearly 100 years after it was first proposed by black civil war…

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