The institution said that “a future and updated exhibit will include all impeachments,” but the timing of the alteration has raised questions.
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Museum of the American Latino Could Vanish Under Trump
The president’s budget proposal seeks to defund the burgeoning institution along with the Anacostia Community Museum.
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Smithsonian Pushes Back Against Trump’s Meddling in Defiant Statement
Though the president attempted to fire her last month, National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet still reports to work.
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Smithsonian Institution Says It Won’t Remove Anti-Segregation Exhibits
The institution denied reports that objects related to the Civil Rights Movement will be removed from two museums amid Trump’s threats to erase “race-centered ideology.”
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Trump Whitewashes History in New Smithsonian Executive Order
Among other disturbing and demonstrably false distortions, the mandate suggests that race is a “biological reality” — a tenet of racist pseudoscientific beliefs.
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Smithsonian Institution to Shutter Diversity Offices
In a staff-wide email, the organization said it was complying with Trump’s executive order banning federally funded diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
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Smithsonian Apologizes for “Racial Brain Collection”
The institution’s secretary “condemned” past unethical practices that involved non-consensually collecting the brains of mostly Black and Indigenous people.
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Republicans Vote to Block Funding for Museum of American Latino
A bill passed last week by conservative lawmakers threatens both the forthcoming museum and the Smithsonian’s existing Latino Gallery.
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Outcry After Smithsonian Cancels Asian American Literature Festival
Over 1,000 artists and writers have signed a letter demanding the “immediate resignation” of Asian Pacific American Center Acting Director Yao-Fen You.
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Nancy Yao Will Not Lead Women’s History Museum
Yao has “withdrawn” from her role as director of the new Smithsonian museum amid an investigation of her conduct as the former leader of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America.
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Nancy Yao’s Role at Smithsonian Stalled As Review Continues
The American Women’s History Museum is awaiting the findings of an investigation into allegations against Yao.
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Smithsonian Reviewing Allegations Against Women’s History Museum Director
Workers at the Museum of Chinese in America allege that Nancy Yao was retaliatory toward employees who reported harassment.