According to the letter sent to Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch III on Tuesday, “the initiative aims to ensure ...

Employees have quietly conceded to the White House’s demands in an effort to save Smithsonian head Lonnie Bunch from losing ...

Mary Trump, the estranged niece of President Donald Trump, warned this week that his approach to federal cultural institutions poses a "unique threat" to the future of the United States. Newsweek ...

White House officials are launching a review of some of the Smithsonian's museums to ensure "alignment" with President ...

The Trump administration announced an expansive review of some of the Smithsonian’s museums in an effort to ensure “alignment ...

Scholars are pushing back against the Trump administration’s plan to conduct a "comprehensive internal review" of the ...

Smithsonian museums will be reviewed by the Trump administration ahead of America's 250th anniversary to ensure exhibits are ...

Bunch was hired in 2005 and shepherded the collection of more than 40,000 items and the creation of the museum on the National Mall. It opened in 2016. Link: WRC-TV interview with Lonnie Bunch ...

Lonnie G. Bunch, Smithsonian secretary and former founding director of AAMHC, recalls in his upcoming memoir, A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and ...

Lonnie Bunch, former director of the wildly successful National Museum of African American History and Culture, gives the commencement address last Friday at Northwestern University in Evanston ...

Lonnie Bunch III's interest in the past began with an incomplete story. His grandfather, a sharecropper-turned-dentist, would read history books to him, and Bunch would wonder why the pictures of ...

Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, poses for a photograph at the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, May 28, 2019.