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White House officials are launching a review of some of the Smithsonian's museums to ensure "alignment" with President ...
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 ...
M useums are beacons of cultural and societal history, whether locally, nationally or globally. They are indispensable ...
Another week of the Trump administration saw significant developments in domestic and foreign policy, including drastic ...
President Trump signed an executive order that alleges the Smithsonian exhibits are built on racially divisive ideology and ...
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 ...
A culture of fear has taken hold at the prestigious D.C. museums as White House officials “ensure alignment” with Trump’s ...
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 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 ...