Renée Fleming is withdrawing from two May appearances at the Kennedy Center. This follows a wave of cancellations since President Trump ousted the previous leadership and announced the venue's renaming.
    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      For anyone wondering about why the Marines aren’t playing, it’s because they were scheduled to perform with Equity Arc, an organization that helps black and brown kids have access to the music programs that have been cut from their schools.

      So, because racism.

        • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          5 months ago

          Hearing Trump say “color blind, merit based” is infuriating when you live in a city where the kids near the white schools have music programs and the kids near the black and brown schools don’t.

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Haha! Jokes on them. Trump can just get the choir of captive children that sang at his inauguration. Cheaper too. And captive, just the way trump likes his children.