Ava DuVernay accepted the Smithsonian’s Great Americans Medal while voicing support for the African American museum.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley is pushing for an investigation into the impacts of a recent executive order targeting the operations of ...

Maryland Humanities will launch the Maryland tour of Spark! Places of Innovation, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition, at the ...

At a ceremony at the Smithsonian Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, Hawaiians honor Chief Keaoua Kekuaokalani. He ...

Wire Attorney Terrance Reshay Robinson, chairman of community action group, Louisa United, answers the attacks of ...

President Donald Trump kicked off his Middle East tour with a visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, vowing a continued ...

Several space missions have flown by asteroids before and gotten a peek at their compositions, but bringing a sample back to Earth is even more helpful for scientists. The most informative analyses ...

The Black Heritage Library and Multicultural Center is proud to announce the public launch of its Digital Archive, a growing ...

Learn about the many ways diplomat, activist, and 2023 American Women Quarters honoree Eleanor Roosevelt made American ...

Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Book Riot editor and "Literary Activism" newsletter writer Kelly Jensen. Later ...

“Let us remind those who try to ‘restore’ a narrow, divisive past, that the future belongs to the whole of us,” said Great Americans Medal recipient Ava DuVernay to a Washington DC crowd this week ...

The founding of a research institute 100 years ago has helped to provide insight on Yiddish culture in the United States and ...