This episode steps outside the academy to explore how Ethnic Studies is changing public understandings of race in America, particularly in museums and other spaces of public engagement. Hosts Shelley Lee and Gina Pérez speak with Renee Romano and Gaila Sims about the practice of public humanities: how scholars and curators of African American history bring academic knowledge into community spaces, the ethics of care that guide their work, and the transformative potential of building historical memory collaboratively, from the ground up.