Last week, the Kennedy Center fired at least seven members of its Social Impact initiative, including its vice president, artistic director, the renowned artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph. The team aimed ...

Marc Bamuthi Joseph recorded this video from his office after learning of his firing. MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH : Well, I am sitting in my office at the Kennedy Center one last time. It’s funny.

President Donald Trump’s efforts to take over cultural institutions and attack diversity, equity and inclusion programs has ...

Last week, the Kennedy Center’s new leadership, recently appointed by President Donald Trump, laid off at least five ...

According to the Washington Post and NPR, the layoffs occurred Tuesday and included the artistic director of Social Impact Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Three employees of the team whose work does not have an ...

The Kennedy Center on Tuesday terminated at least five members of its small social impact team, including its artistic director Marc Bamuthi Joseph, according to multiple staff members with direct ...

Afterward, guests departed for a party at the Reach, a 2019 addition spearheaded by the Kennedy Center’s former president Deborah Rutter. The seventy-two-thousand-square-foot complex of pavilions, ...

Marc Bamuthi Joseph. References to the team’s work, which included attracting young, new and diverse audiences to the center, have been scrubbed from the center’s website. The Kennedy Center ...

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., has dissolved its Social Impact division, which ...