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Acclaimed director Ava DuVernay reflected on what the Smithsonian museums mean to Americans as she received a lifetime ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is going to consider whether to permanently keep two prized artifacts belonging to civil rights icon Amos Brown — which the ...
Though Republicans have the power to squash their proposals, Democrats are making it clear that they intend to push back on ...
More than 70 House Democrats are requesting the Smithsonian inspector general to kickstart an investigation into President ...
Efforts to take the focus off the nation’s racial past in compliance with President Trump’s wishes face resistance from those ...
“Let us remind those who try to ‘restore’ a narrow, divisive past, that the future belongs to the whole of us,” said Great Americans Medal recipient Ava DuVernay to a Washington DC crowd this week ...
House Democrats argue that Trump's executive order targeting race-related content threatens Smithsonian's independence and ...
The president’s earliest executive orders are reshaping U.S. cultural policy, cutting funding, gutting institutions and ...
The director of the Mauritshuis museum in the Netherlands said the Trump administration’s proposed funding cuts to ...
The Smithsonian is pushing back against allegations that some artifacts are being removed from the National Museum of African ...
Two months after President Trump signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian in an effort to eliminate “divisive or anti-American ideology,” the museum honored DuVernay with the Great ...