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Because the Smithsonian can receive private funding, it is not entirely in trouble-but the long-term effects remain unclear.
In a letter to Vice President JD Vance, four U.S. representatives on a committee that oversees the cultural institution urged ...
President Trump threatened to block funding for Smithsonian exhibitions that discuss racism and ordered the restoration of monuments taken down because of their celebration of racist figures.
The threat to museums such as The National Museum of African-American History and Culture is real. But even more sinister is the administration’s rejection of race as a “social construct,” which is ...
The order is vague but suggests Trump is seeking to purge elements of what conservatives view as a revisionist history of the US that places systemic racism at the heart of its narrative.
The top Democrat of the House Administration Committee, Rep. Joe Morelle, and other Democrats who have oversight of the ...
With President Donald J. Trump back in the White House, he got straight to business cranking out 26 executive orders, 12 ...
An executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution is prompting questions over the organization’s past and who runs and funds it.
President Donald Trump signed a new executive order on March 27 that calls to remove 'improper ideology' from exhibits at the ...
The president’s recent executive order directed at the institution will face a lot of procedural headwinds before he can MAGA ...
The Trump administration, however, is not happy with the way the Smithsonian Institution and other U.S. museums are ...
The memo from Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first African American to lead the Smithsonian Institution, was as much a message of ...