Resilience is a key theme for the Smithsonian’s newest creation, the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

One afternoon at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, a visitor was reading out loud the names of family members he discovered in a historical record. On ...

It would be impossible to capture the essence of the Smithsonian Museum’s new African-American history museum in just one of the more than 3,000 artifacts on display. Do you nominate the slav… ...

A violin belonging to an enslaved man was donated to the forthcoming National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington by his great-granddaughter, Shirley Burke.

At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is without its director, who stepped down last month.

For the first time in the Smithsonian Institution's 173-year history, an African American has been tapped to head the world's largest museum and research complex. "You're going to make a historian ...

Head of African American Museum on leave as Smithsonian faces Trump pressure Kevin Young, an acclaimed poet who was named director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, set to open Sept. 24, tells many stories of African-Americans of diverse faiths who have shaped U.S. history.

Kevin Young, who has led the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021, went on leave before the president criticized the institution in an executive order.

The Smithsonian is responding to reports of exhibit removals from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in response to Trump's executive order.

Two lenders to presentations currently on view at the National Museum of African American History and Culture said their objects were removed sooner than expected, leading them to question what ...

The museum celebrated the 20th anniversary of legislation that funded it this week, but it can trace its origins back to Black veterans who fought for the Union Army in the Civil War.