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The Smithsonian Latino Center (SLC) received a major grant from the Ford Motor Company Fund, which includes $200,000 to support the development of the Molina Family Latino Gallery and $170,000 for...

The Smithsonian Latino Center welcomes a new class of graduate students to participate in the annual Latino Museum Studies Program (LMSP) July 15.

The Smithsonian Latino Center welcomed 18 graduating high school seniors from across the country to participate in its annual Young Ambassadors Program (YAP) June 24.

The Smithsonian Latino Center is now accepting applications for the 2019 Young Ambassadors Program June 23 through Aug. 2. The application deadline is April 8.

The Smithsonian Latino Center’s first gallery space, the Molina Family Latino Gallery, will be dedicated to celebrating the U.S.

The Smithsonian invites the public to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15–Oct. 15) through a series of vibrant performances, lectures, family activities and exhibitions at its museums. All...

On Sept. 10, 2018, the Latino Policy & Politics Initiative and the Chicano Studies Research Center, both at UCLA, released a study on Latina/o representation within the Smithsonian’s workforce...

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Created in 1994, the Latino Museum Studies Program brings graduate students to Washington, D.C., each summer for the chance to engage with Smithsonian experts across the Institution.

This summer, the Smithsonian Latino Center welcomes 20 graduating high school seniors from across the country to participate in its annual Young Ambassadors Program. Through the support of Ford Motor...

The Indigenous peoples of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean are not extinct and they never were.

The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, today announced that the Smithsonian Latino Center is the recipient of its...

The Smithsonian Latino Center is now accepting applications for the 2018 Young Ambassadors Program June 24 through Aug. 2. The application deadline April 9.

The Smithsonian Latino Center celebrates two decades of increasing Latino presence at the Smithsonian Nov. 16. Created in 1997, the Center has led the effort to integrate the U.S.

The Smithsonian invites the public to celebrate American Indian Heritage Month throughout November with a series of performances, lectures, exhibitions and family activities at various museums around...

The Smithsonian Latino Center, in its 20th anniversary year, welcomed 22 graduating high school seniors from across the country to participate in its annual Young Ambassadors Program (YAP) this...

The Smithsonian Latino Center, in its 20th anniversary year, is now accepting applications for the 2017 Young Ambassadors Program to be held June 25 through Aug. 2. The application deadline is April...

What do Washington, D.C., Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and Baltimore all have in common? They are all urban areas, are all on the east coast of the United States…and all have experienced rapid...

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The Smithsonian Latino Center welcomed 22 graduating high school seniors from across the country to participate in its 11th annual Young Ambassadors Program (YAP) this summer. Through the support of...

The Smithsonian Latino Center and the Human Rights Campaign will present “Recovering Latinx LGBT History: Dan Guerrero with the Editors of Queer Brown Voices,” Thursday, June 16, 6:30 p.m., in the...

El Día de Los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, is a premier annual event for the Smithsonian Latino Center and the National Museum of the American Indian, offering an opportunity to celebrate a...