In a staff-wide email, the organization said it was complying with Trump’s executive order banning federally funded diversity ...

An executive order by Donald Trump prohibits all DEI programs at federal institutions. Some have already dismantled them.

This experience influenced his early foray into photography and continues to inform the questions he asks and images he makes. His education as a photographer began at The State Newspaper in Columbia, ...

Over the next four weeks, the D.C. area comes alive with events highlighting contributions made by the Black community, ...

The Smithsonian Institution is closing its Office of Diversity, freezing federal hiring and ordering employees back to ...

Richards, who was named National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence last year, regularly joins Diving With a Purpose, a group of Black scuba divers who uncover and document slave shipwrecks in the ...

An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly ...

At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, "In Slavery's Wake" tells the international history of ...

The Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice collaborated with the Smithsonian Institution to create a new ...

This February at the museum, we're celebrating a new season of the podcast, commemorating Black History Month, and listening ...

Ahead of the spring semester, nine students traveled to Washington, D.C., and Jackson, Mississippi, as part of a ...