Philip Freelon, FAIA, is design director at Perkins+Will and architect of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Miss.
Philip Freelon of Perkins+Will comments on the alarming uprise of racist provocations in the U.S., including a noose clandestinely left yesterday in his recent project, the National Museum of African American History and Culture.