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Black History Under Fire: Trump’s Executive Order Puts Smithsonian’s Future at Risk

By Stacy M. Brown BlackPressUSA.com Senior National Correspondent The memo from Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first African American to lead the Smithsonian Institution, was as much a message of reassurance as a call to vigilance. Following President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order targeting what he labeled “anti-American ideology” in cultural institutions, Bunch acknowledged the growing uncertainty and laid out a path forward. “We remain ste…

Historians Defend the Smithsonian

Black History Under Fire: Trump’s Executive Order Puts Smithsonian’s Future at Risk – The Windy City Word

By Stacy M. Brown BlackPressUSA.com Senior National Correspondent The memo from Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first African American to lead the Smithsonian Institution, was as much a message of reassurance as a call to vigilance. Following President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order targeting what he labeled “anti-American ideology” in cultural institutions, Bunch acknowledged the growing uncertainty and laid out a path forward. “We remain ste…

Smithsonian Faces New Executive Order on Content Review as Secretary Bunch Reaffirms Commitment to Scholarship

The Smithsonian Institution is navigating a new executive order from the White House.