A Richmond museum is preparing to open an exhibition in June that will explore the lives of free Black Virginians from 1619 ...

What Flanagan understands is that the real story of America includes the story of slavery. He looked around at all the people ...

Who is Lindsey Halligan, the attorney assigned to help remove “improper ideology” from Washington’s most important cultural ...

WASHINGTON ‒ In the midst of the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back diversity initiatives, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators is pushing for a site on the National Mall for a museum focused ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order threatens to pull federal funding from exhibits and programs the administration ...

In a letter to Vice President JD Vance, four U.S. representatives on a committee that oversees the cultural institution urged him to reject President Trump’s push to reshape it.

The top Democrat of the House Administration Committee, Rep. Joe Morelle, and other Democrats who have oversight of the ...

Funding for the report was provided by the Andrew Mellon, Alice L. Walton and Ford Foundations. In 2023, Mellon committed ...

Trump and his supporters are trying to purge ideas they dislike to chill the speech of opponents in public dialogue. It's authoritarian and dangerous.

When the National Park Service rewrote the Underground Railroad's story, it pulled Cincinnati's Freedom Center into Trump's ...

On Thursday, the president ordered the restoration of monuments that were removed during the administration of former ...

U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a bill to construct a new Smithsonian museum to ...