Worried artists reached out to Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell. His responses didn’t help

Trump thinks he's helping the Kennedy Center

Trump is imagining his greatness once again. The Kennedy Center did a fireworks show on March 29th. People do have a tendency to accumulate in large numbers to watch fireworks shows. Trump makes it sound like people and artists aren't boycotting the...

Worried artists reached out to Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell. His responses didn’t help

Since President Trump took over as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in February, artists’ responses have been mixed. Some, including Issa Rae, Rhiannon Giddens and the musical Hamilton, cancelled performances in protest. Others, like comedian W. Kamau Bell and the band Guster, decided to move forward.Yasmin Williams and Cathy Fink, two musicians with deep ties to the cultural center, emailed the Center’s interim pre…