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 ...

An executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution is prompting questions over the organization’s past and who runs and funds it.

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

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.

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.

President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targets funding for programs that advance “divisive narratives” ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targets funding for programs that advance ...

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 president’s recent executive order directed at the institution will face a lot of procedural headwinds before he can MAGA ...

The memo from Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first African American to lead the Smithsonian Institution, was as much a message of ...

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