The month honors African American people’s rich ... Black history is American history." —Morgan Freeman 31. “It’s important for us to also understand that the phrase 'Black Lives Matter ...

What will a thin-skinned showman do with an institution central to Washington’s cultural life? One expectation is more ...

but what about the Kennedy Center Honors? Yes, President Donald Trump has made a compelling case for the paucity of good, wholesome, or even mildly edifying programming at the performing-arts ...

Why must every president overplay his hand?” Christopher J. Scalia wrote on X the other day. Scalia, the son of the famed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and hardly a raging progressive, was ...

President Donald Trump wants to lavish his personal friends with Kennedy Center Honors, after parachuting himself into the ...

He and First Lady Melania Trump broke precedent set by his predecessors and skipped the Kennedy Center Honors during his first three years in office (the 2020 ceremony was postponed due to the ...

Hernández and Robin Pogrebin President Trump was made chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, he announced on Wednesday, cementing his grip on an institution ...

when he announced that he and first lady Melania Trump would not attend the Kennedy Center Honors in 2017, after some award recipients that year threatened a boycott. The White House considers ...

breaking a bipartisan tradition by not attending the Kennedy Center Honors ceremonies. Some honorees in 2017 had threatened to boycott events including him. Before Trump announced his plans ...

He came about that posture through the Center’s annual Kennedy Center Honors, in which a handful of artists or groups are honored for contributions to American culture. The President and First ...

Every December, the Kennedy Center Honors are awarded for lifetime contributions to American culture. Past recipients include Ella Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Frank Sinatra ...

He came about that posture through the Center’s annual Kennedy Center Honors, in which a handful of artists or groups are honored for contributions to American culture. The President and First ...