"Our Honorees this year have each played an invaluable, pioneering role in developing American culture," wrote Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter in a statement Njera Perkins was a digital ...

That includes the future – and perhaps even the past – of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors. Those awards, which have been presented annually since 1978, are among the highest national ...

"The Kennedy Center Honors recognizes artists who have made ... recognized for my contributions to the music industry for the past 60 years." Rubenstein wrote of Fleming, a five-time Grammy ...

During the board meeting, Trump railed against previous Kennedy Center Honors, saying, “In the past, I mean, these are radical left lunatics that have been chosen. I didn’t like it.

“America’s philistine president has had himself appointed head of one of our premier cultural institutions,” said De Niro, a 2009 Kennedy Center Honors recipient. “He has cut funding and ...

Walking onstage before a nervously expectant audience at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where he serves as artistic director for jazz, he sat at a Steinway grand and plunged into the ...