Washington Post reports head of Washington's African American History Museum on Personal Leave

April 3, 2025 12:09 AM IST USA-Trump/Smithsonian-Young: Head of Washington’s African American History Museum on Personal Leave, reports Washington Post on April 2-The Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, Kevin Young, reported on personal leave Washington Post, head of Washington Post, head of Washington Post, head of Washington African American History Museum on Personal Leave, reports that the Post reported that no reason for the leave was given, and that it was not immediately visible or linked by US President Donald Trump’s administration with the executive. A NMAAHC spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. Young, a poet who also serves as the Poetry Editor of the New Yorker, could not be reached for comment immediately. Young started his leave on March 14 with an indefinite time, and Shanita Brackett, a co -director, was appointed acting director, reports the post. In an executive order on March 27, Trump wrote that ‘improper, divisive or anti-American ideology’ is removed from the Smithsonian, the vast museum and research complex created by the US government in 1846 and serves as a leading exhibition space for the country’s history and culture. Trump’s order is vague about what the president sees as anti-American ideology. But this indicates that Trump is trying to purify elements of what conservatives consider to be a revisionist history of the United States that puts systemic racism in the heart of his narrative. Last year for his campaign, former President Joe Biden visited the Museum at the center of Washington and greeted his audience by declaring: ‘Black History is American History.’ When opened in 2016, David Skorton, the then Smithsonian secretary, said he wanted the museum – who used a robe used by the Great Muhammad Ali box and the coffin of Emmett Till, whose murder in 1955 in Mississippi would be the civil rights movement. “Open now, at a time when social and political disagreement reminds us that racism is not a thing of the past, this museum can help us promote public conversation,” he said. This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without edits to text.