Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch announced director Kim Sajet’s resignation in a Friday email to staff, obtained by ...

The Smithsonian says it retains the authority over personnel such as the director of the National Portrait Gallery, whose ...

The Board of Regents publicly backed Smithsonian leader Lonnie G. Bunch III and called for nonpartisanship after Trump ...

The director of the Smithsonian Institute’s National Portrait Gallery stepped down after the organization rebuffed President Donald Trump’s attempts to fire her. Kim Sajet shared her departure in a ...

The Smithsonian's Board of Regents Monday night affirmed the authority of its secretary, Lonnie Bunch III, to make "all ...

The Smithsonian has issued a statement supporting Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch following President Trump's claim that he fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery.

Following President Trump’s announcement last month that he was firing Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery, ...

Lonnie G. Bunch III is the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian. He assumed his position June 16, 2019. As Secretary, he oversees 21 museums, 21 libraries, the National Zoo, numerous research centers and ...

Lonnie Bunch III shares the vision behind the network of museums, libraries and the National Zoo The idea for a national museum of African American history and culture had been around for 100 years.

Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is confronting the most pointed political ...

Lonnie G. Bunch III has been tapped to becoming the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, making history as the first Black leader in the institute’s 173-year history. According to the ...