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The president’s recent executive order directed at the institution will face a lot of procedural headwinds before he can MAGA ...
President Trump’s order specifically targets the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, and there is a lot of Alabama in that museum, more than in many Alabama museums I’ve been to, ...
Trump's threat to withhold federal funds because of "improper ideology" could have a chilling effect on the museum's ...
A heated email exchange between Richard Grenell, the interim head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and ...
The president of the state’s Museum of African American History, which has locations in Boston and on Nantucket, is worried ...
The Smithsonian represents a pinnacle of official US efforts to represent pasts that are painful and violent as well as beautiful and accomplished.
"When we see efforts to erase our history...it's actually going to make us weaker [and] less informed," said Alan Spear tells ...
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, saves the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Making Black Freedom in the World” uses artifacts, art, audio and video to explore the horrors of enslavement alongside the ...
From its beginning in Wright’s Detroit basement, the museum has cultivated increased visibility for all African Americans by ...
The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground ...
Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021, has stepped down. He ...