Save the Smithsonian and America’s priceless cultural legacy
- Trump's executive order titled 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History' targets the Smithsonian, aiming to remove what he calls 'improper ideology.'
- Nikole Hannah Jones, author of the 1619 Project, criticized attempts to erase slavery's role in American history, emphasizing that it creates a 'fantasy of how we got here.'
- Smithsonian officials are secretly strategizing to protect the museum's integrity by securing Republican support against presidential actions.
- Trump's administration seeks to control museums like the Smithsonian, reflecting a broader cultural war that minimizes complex historical narratives.
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Smithsonian’s African American museum director Kevin Young resigns
Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021, has stepped down. He announced his departure in a memo to museum staff, said Smithsonian spokesperson Linda St. Thomas, three weeks after the Smithsonian…


Trump Targets a Slavery Removal from the National Museum of African-American History and Culture
By April Ryan “Black people are not going to stand for this,” says Nikole Hannah Jones, the author of the 1619 Project. She is responding to reports that President Trump is targeting the slavery section of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. The museum’s slavery facts and substantiating artifacts of the 250 years of the enslavement of Africans in America, curated by historians, are the bull’s-eye for the Trump administra…
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