WASHINGTON, April 29 -- The Smithsonian Institution issued the following statement on April 28, 2025: * * * Statement on Smithsonian Collection Items Recent reports about the Smithsonian removing the historic Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter and a stool from the National Museum of American History and National Museum of African American History and Culture, respectively, are inaccurate. Both the Greensboro lunch counter and stools where college students sat in protest during the Civ  more