"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 called off the performance in the wake of the White House announcing last week that President Donald Trump's name would be added to the facility. As of last Friday, the building's facade reads The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts."
"President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and Congress passed a law the following year naming the center as a living memorial to him. Kennedy niece Kerry Kennedy has vowed to remove Trump's name from the building once he leaves office and former House historian Ray Smock is among those who say any changes would have to be approved by Congress. The law explicitly prohibits the board of trustees from making the center into a memorial to anyone else, and from putting another person's name on the building's exterior."
Musician Chuck Redd canceled a planned Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert after the White House announced that President Donald Trump's name would be added to the center. The building's facade now reads The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts following approval by a Trump-appointed board, a move scholars say violates a 1964 law. Congress named the center as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy and the law prohibits renaming or adding another person's name to the building exterior. The Kennedy Center website lists the show as canceled.
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