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Breaking: Lonnie Bunch, the head of the Smithsonian Institution, is stepping down, @kelseyables.bsky.social reports. His departure comes amid months of clashes with the White House.

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The Atlantic left
Breaking: Lonnie Bunch, the head of the Smithsonian Institution, is stepping down, @kelseyables.bsky.social reports. His departure comes amid months of clashes with the White House.
The Washington Post left
Breaking news: Smithsonian chief Lonnie G. Bunch III is retiring as President Trump fights to reshape the institution. Bunch, the Smithsonian’s first Black secretary, said Trump’s pressure played no role in his decision.
Deadline
Lonnie Bunch, who has led the Smithsonian as its secretary for the past seven years, said that he will step down at the end of the year. His departure comes amid repeated criticism from the Trump administration over how the institution depicts and descrives historical events and figures. In an interview with The New York […]
The Hill center
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III announced Tuesday he will be stepping down from his role amid disputes with the Trump administration over how the museum complex presents American history. Bunch, 73, is the Smithsonian Institution’s first Black leader and founder of its National Museum of African American History and Culture. He’s served as the world’s…
The Guardian left
‘I have to be honest, it has been stressful,’ Lonnie Bunch III says The Smithsonian Institution’s secretary, Lonnie Bunch III, will retire at the end of the year amid Donald Trump’s attacks on the museum’s content and independence. Bunch, who was appointed in 2019 as the first African American to lead the museums, cited personal reasons for departing, while acknowledging the pressure that the president’s attacks on the Smithsonian’s depictions of US history had taken. Continue reading...
Reuters
Smithsonian chief Lonnie Bunch announces departure reut.rs/4A3tCSl