The California African American Museum reopens this week after a $3.8 million renovation. This is good news, but the state’s budget crisis has once again put the museum at risk. The CAAM was created 25 years ago, but it has never really had the opportunity to become financially stable, since a heavy reliance on wildly fluctuating state funding has kept it subserviant to the whims of politicians. The latest round of state cuts will see the museum’s budget shrink by 35%, and the CAAM is scrambling to find ways to make up the difference.