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Smithsonian chief faces Trump bid to purge anti American ideology
Smithsonian Institution leader Bunch navigates President Trump's order targeting NMAAHC and the unbuilt Women’s History Museum. He defends the museum’s mission to present history with scholarship free of partisanship, resisting sectarian pressure while noting the ongoing debate over Confederate monuments and racial narratives.
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Onnie G. Bunch III
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Nmaahc
Bunch
Washington
Trump
Donald Trump
Smithsonian
American Women’s History Museum
JD Vance
Chicago History Museum
Washington Post
Ington
Oprah Winfrey
Ava DuVernay
Michael Jordan
Stevie Wonder
Samuel L. Jackson
Angela Bassett
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
U.S
John Lewis
Lewis
Russia
Turkey
China
Brazil
Iran
Afghanistan
Ai Weiwei
Josef Stalin
Vladimir Putin
Adolf Hitler
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Board of Regents
Congress
Kennedy Center
David Rubenstein
Deborah Rutter
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Joe Biden
Smithsonian Magazine
America
Robert E. Lee
Frederick Douglass
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr
Harriet Tubman