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Pelosi Announces Appointments to Smithsonian Board of Regents

“Speaker Nancy Pelosi today announced the appointment of Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard of California and the reappointment of Congresswoman Doris Matsui of California to serve on the governing Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.”

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Smithsonian registra mejoras en contratación de latinos pero éstos son ínfimos, según informe

“los latinos siguen en gran medida “excluidos” de las entidades que bajo su paraguas narran la historia del país, según denunció este lunes un informe. Se trata del primer “análisis riguroso”, a cargo de la Universidad de California en Los Angeles (UCLA), la Iniciativa de Políticas Latinas (LPPI), y el Centro de Investigación de Estudios…

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Latinos Remain Largely Excluded By Smithsonian Institutions, New Report Finds

“When you look at leadership, the Smithsonian is on par with other major cultural institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty and the Chicago Art Institute, which have almost no minority leadership or governance,” said Noriega.

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A California family’s donation leads to the Smithsonian’s first permanent Latino gallery

“The introduction of the new gallery comes months after the release of a report titled “Invisible No More,” from UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute, which found that the Smithsonian failed to act on recommendations from the Institution’s 1994 report that would increase Latino representation across its institute. One of these recommendations included working with…

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‘The Smithsonian can do more and should do more,’ says advocate for a Latino museum

“Just as . . . the largest minority in the country comes to the table, (the Smithsonian) says ‘We can’t do that anymore, we’re going to try something new, to integrate you across the institution,’ ” Chon Noriega, one of the report’s authors, said. “That should be happening anyway. That shouldn’t be the compromise.”

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