First the Kennedy Center, Now the Smithsonian

From the start of the second Trump administration, the entire Smithsonian had been a target of those on the MAGA right who ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Lonnie Bunch Sizes Up His Past and Future at the Smithsonian

“We call ourselves the Great Convener,” says the new Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III, “but really we’re a Great Legitimizer. And I want the Smithsonian to legitimize important issues." Smithsonian Books ...
Yahoo

Bunch Raises $20 Million From Ubisoft, Electronic Arts to Expand Video Chat Gaming App

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A startup called Bunch has raised $20 million to continue work on an app that lets people play games over video chat. Based in New ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Lonnie Bunch Looks Back on the Making of the Smithsonian’s Newest Museum

The exhibition "Sports: Leveling the Playing Field" highlights the achievements of African American athletes on both national and international stages. Jason Flakes On September 24, 2016, the National ...
NPR

Lonnie Bunch III Takes Helm Of The Smithsonian: 'I Feel The Weight Of History'

Lonnie Bunch III's interest in the past began with an incomplete story. His grandfather, a sharecropper-turned-dentist, would read history books to him, and Bunch would wonder why the pictures of ...