Bro's it's time to get STANK about this, I can understand needing to pull the money to make this 100yr planned museum a reality, but I rather something fully representing Our history by us, even if it's smaller in scale. this is what happens when we don't tell our own story by letting these corporations fund their version of it.
It is the Smithsonian version of african american history. Staring the Boo-lay.
Smithsonian's Black "Museum"
Donors to the Smithsonian Black "museum"
Pinnacle Donors ($20 million and above)
Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Robert Frederick Smith
The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation
Capstone Donors ($10 million and above)
The Atlantic Philanthropies
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Rhimes Family Foundation
David M. Rubenstein
Cornerstone Donors ($5 million and above)
3M
American Express
The Boeing Company
Ford Foundation
GE
Robert L. Johnson
Michael Jordan and Family
Kaiser Permanente
The Rockefeller Foundation
Smithsonian Channel
Target
UnitedHealth Group
Walmart
Keystone Donors ($2 million and above)
21st Century Fox and News Corp
Bank of America
Carnival Corporation*
James I. Cash, Jr. and the Walton Family Foundation
The Walt Disney Company
GlaxoSmithKline
Johnson & Johnson*
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Kovler Foundation
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Medtronic Foundation
The Moore Charitable Foundation/
Louis Moore Bacon
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
NIKE Foundation
Northrop Grumman*
Prudential
Earl W. and Amanda Stafford
Patty Stonesifer and Michael Kinsley
Time Warner Foundation
Toyota
United Technologies Corporation
Anthony and Beatrice Welters and
the Vincent Wilkinson Foundation
Milestone Donors ($1 million and above)
AARP
Rodney and Michelle Adkins
Aetna Foundation, Inc.
Aflac
Alfred Street Baptist Church
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated
Altria Group
Apple*
AT&T, Inc.
BET Networks/Viacom*
Jeff & MacKenzie Bezos
BlackRock
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Dr. and Mrs. T.B. Boyd III and Family/
The R.H. Boyd Company
Brown Capital Management, LLC
Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Family Foundation
The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
Maverick Carter*
Caterpillar
Kenneth I. and Kathryn Chenault
The Coca-Cola Foundation
Dr. N. Anthony, Robyn, Andrew, Taylor and Evan
Coles
Michael and Susan Dell
Dignity Health
The Dow Chemical Company*
Andreas C. Dracopoulos
Sandra J. Evers-Manly*
The Executive Leadership Council
Exelon Foundation*
FedEx Corporation
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. and Annette L. Nazareth
Ford Motor Company Fund
Andréa and Kenneth Frazier
Patricia and Phillip Frost
William J. and Brenda L. Galloway & Family
David Geffen Foundation
General Mills Foundation
General Motors
James T. George and Juliette J. George
Goldman Sachs
Google.org*
The Hartford
Mellody Hobson and George Lucas
Cathy Hughes and Alfred C. Liggins III
Hyundai
IBM
Intel Corporation*
LaTanya, Zoe and Samuel L. Jackson
LeBron James Family Foundation*
Earvin and Cookie Johnson and Family
James A. Johnson
*pending documentation
Johnson Publishing Company
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Robert and Arlene Kogod
Debra L. Lee, Quinn S. Coleman, Ava L. Coleman*
Dale L. LeFebvre
Loida Nicolas Lewis, Leslie Lewis
and Christina Lewis Halpern
The Reginald F. Lewis Foundation, Inc.
The Links Foundation, Incorporated
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
Victor and Thaderine MacFarlane and Family
The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation
McDonald’s Corporation
Rose A. McElrath-Slade
Mattie McFadden-Lawson, Michael A.
Lawson, Esq., and Family
James L. and Juliette McNeil
MetLife Foundation
MGM Resorts International
Microsoft Corporation
Michael and Lori Milken
Mark & Brenda Moore and Family
Morgan Stanley
National Basketball Association
National Basketball Players Association
National Football League
Nationwide Foundation
New York Life
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Richard D. and Laura A. Parsons
The PepsiCo Foundation
Tyler Perry
William F. Pickard Family Group
Colin and Alma Powell
J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation
Franklin D. Raines and Denise Grant
Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock
Deborah Sara Santana
Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity/Boulé Foundation
William and Tish Slattery & the Slattery
Family Foundation
Gerald B. and Anita Smith Family
Southern Company Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Stephen J. Stoute
Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation*
Reginald Van Lee
Verizon
Craig and Diane Welburn and Family
Wells Fargo
Robert L. Wright
Xerox Foundation
