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Historians and researchers are expressing “grave concern” about President Trump’s push to purge museums of information he dislikes.
CNN political commentator Shermichael Singleton reacts to President Donald Trump’s claims museums were too focused on highlighting negative aspects of American history, including “how bad slavery was.
Criticism comes as White House officials have accused Smithsonian of being ‘woke’ and featuring an ‘overemphasis on slavery ...
An adviser to President Donald Trump said that while slavery was "horrible," no serious discussion of it is complete without the inclusion of "hope and progress." ...
Lindsey Halligan, the president's special assistant, told Fox News "we can’t just keep focusing on the negative." ...
The White House published a list of Smithsonian exhibits, programming and artwork it considered objectionable on Thursday, ...
It's not about whitewashing, it's all about full context, so while slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation's ...
President Trump's adviser leading a review of Smithsonian museums' content defended the move as shifting the focus to ...
The top Trump official tasked with reshaping the Smithsonian’s collections into a more conservative presentation argues that, ...
White House gripes against Smithsonian come despite president’s past praise of museums like National Museum of African ...
Is it whitewashing? It's not a museum's job to promote hope, thoughts and prayers. They exhibit the past. Trying to turn them ...
Special Assistant to the President Lindsey Halligan said the Smithsonian museums had become "laboratories for political experiments." ...