{"id":37761,"date":"2025-04-02T17:31:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/head-of-dcs-african-american-museum-on-leave-as-trump-targets-smithsonian\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T17:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:31:46","slug":"head-of-dcs-african-american-museum-on-leave-as-trump-targets-smithsonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/head-of-dcs-african-american-museum-on-leave-as-trump-targets-smithsonian\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of DC\u2019s African American museum on leave as Trump targets Smithsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Young has been absent since 14 March, weeks before president\u2019s order taking aim at \u2018anti-American\u2019 content<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/29\/what-is-the-smithsonian-institution\">What is the Smithsonian Institution and why is it important?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington DC, is not currently in charge of the museum and has been on leave since 14 March, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/30\/smithsonian-institution-trump-executive-order\">targets<\/a> the Smithsonian museum network for its content.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/art\/2025\/04\/02\/smithsonian-nmaahc-kevin-young-leave\/\"> Washington Post<\/a> first reported that Young has been on a personal leave for an \u201cundetermined period\u201d, according to an email obtained by the newspaper from Kevin Gover, the Smithsonian under secretary for museums and culture. Shanita Brackett, NMAAHC\u2019s associate director of operations, is now serving as interim director.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/02\/kevin-young-african-american-museum-trump-smithsonian\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Young has been absent since 14 March, weeks before president\u2019s order taking aim at \u2018anti-American\u2019 content What is the Smithsonian Institution and why is it important? Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington DC, is not currently in charge of the museum and has &#8230; <a title=\"Head of DC\u2019s African American museum on leave as Trump targets Smithsonian\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/head-of-dcs-african-american-museum-on-leave-as-trump-targets-smithsonian\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Head of DC\u2019s African American museum on leave as Trump targets Smithsonian\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}