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A public comment from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in the USA. This public statement is reprinted by permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
In the midst of a nation‐wide shutdown due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, and just prior to the American Alliance of Museums (AAM’s) Virtual Annual Meeting (May 18 and June 1‐4, 2020), a 46‐year old Black American, George Perry Floyd, Jr., was suffocated under the knee of a white police officer, while that officer’s three colleagues stood by, on the streets of Minneapolis, MN in the United States. A bystander’s...
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