Smithsonian

News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald speaks with Lonnie Bunch, the Secretary of the Smithsonian, about the museums’ new initiative to advance conversations about race in the United States.

Almost as soon as the towering black fencing was erected last week to seal off Lafayette Park, the barrier became an art gallery and a sounding board for the demonstrators protesting years of black deaths at the hands of police officers. Now, with expectations that the fence in front of the White House might be coming down, there’s an effort...

Four cheetah cubs at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute have new names voted for by the public.

Grab your headphones and get ready to blast off into cyberspace. Rock legend Sting is set to perform the out-of-this-world grand finale at the National Air and Space Museum’s “Space Songs: Through the Distance” virtual concert Thursday night. Viewers can tune into the free digital concert hosted by Adam Savage on the museum’s YouTube channel. The show begins at...

A cheetah named Echo gave birth to a litter of cubs at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute on Wednesday. You can check on the new mom and the cubs via the Cheetah Cam on the Smithsonian’s website.

Some of the most popular tourist spots in D.C., Maryland and Virginia have been closed to address the coronavirus pandemic. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

As the coronavirus continues its spread in the U.S., some of D.C.’s most popular attractions are leaving nothing to chance. Thousands of people pass through the Smithsonian museums every day, and that means thousands of chances to transmit germs. News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald has more on the Smithsonian’s effort to keep things clean.

The Smithsonian’s Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture are memorializing NBA legend Kobe Bryant. Mark Segraves reports.

Some popular sites won’t reopen immediately after a deal was reached Friday to end the longest shutdown in American history.

The driver who killed a Smithsonian employee who was riding his bike to work in September will serve 18 months in prison.

The suspect in a hit-and-run accident that killed a popular Smithsonian employee was sentenced to 18 months in prison. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

A rare Bible used to justify slavery, one of only three known copies, is now on display in D.C.

Such a quintessentially American role, some said, should have gone to an African American actress. Erivo, the daughter of Nigerian immigrants to England, was born in London and currently lives in New York.

British actress Cynthia Erivo is relatively small in stature. In person, she is earnest and genial. In performance, the 32-year-old can appear achingly vulnerable. And if you’re not paying attention, she will bowl you over. Now, after glimpses of her on-screen power last year in Drew Goddard’s “Bad Times at the El Royale” and Steve McQueen’s “Widows,” Erivo gives her...

Rogue the lesser kudu gave birth to a healthy male calf at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo on Oct. 14.

The National Zoo panda will leave D.C. in November.

A sculpture of a black Jesus and 12 apostles was uncovered in Northwest D.C. News4’s Cory Smith reports.