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The Kennedy Center changed its bylaws earlier this year to limit voting to board members appointed by the president. The Kennedy Center currently has 34 presidentially-appointed board members, ...

Workers affix signage adding US President Donald Trump's name on the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. Reporter The Kennedy Center cancelled their annual ...

A Christmas Eve jazz concert was scrapped after President Donald Trump added his name to the Kennedy Center. Chuck Redd, a jazz drummer and vibraphonist who has hosted the concert for nearly a decade, ...

Drummer Chuck Redd said he canceled the Christmas Eve show he’s been performing for nearly 20 years at the Kennedy Center after President Trump added his own name to the building that serves as a ...

A view of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts which was recently renamed the âThe Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the performing artsâ in Washington, DC on ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center, a holiday tradition dating back more than 20 years, has been canceled. The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he ...

An annual Christmas Eve jazz concert held at the Kennedy Center was canceled on Wednesday after its host learned of the recent addition of President Donald Trump’s name to the building. Chuck Redd, ...

The Kennedy Center has been hit with a string of abrupt cancellations in the wake of its board of trustees’ adding President Donald Trump’s name to the landmark performing arts institution. Just days ...

A Democratic member of the House on Monday challenged in federal court the administration’s effort to rename the Kennedy Center after President Donald Trump. Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, filed the ...

"Wicked" composer Stephen Schwartz has no plans to host a gala at the historic institution formerly known as the John F. Kennedy Center, following its renaming in honor of President Donald Trump. The ...

Stephen Schwartz, the celebrated Oscar-winning composer behind Wicked and other hit musicals, is the latest artist to pull out of a scheduled appearance at the Kennedy Center in protest of Donald ...