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Kennedy Center's Political Purge Exposes the Board Fight Nobody's Talking About | Stage Door Society

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Kennedy Center's Political Purge Exposes the Board Fight Nobody's Talking About

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The Kennedy Center just cancelled an artist and ordered staffers to scrub a name from the building. The official story is political. The real story is institutional control, and it's uglier than anyone is saying publicly.

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Kennedy Center's Political Purge Exposes the Board Fight Nobody's Talking About

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