1619 Project's are all over fingerprints on the Smithsonian

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“Everybody that thought about the 1619 Project … saw that the Smithsonian had fingerprints on it,” Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III once said with pride — a curious boast given the project’s many inaccuracies. But a visit to one of his museums reveals that the reverse is also true.