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The Kennedy Center’s workers’ union is demanding an investigation after the guitar player Yasmin Williams was heckled during a recent performance by a group of conservatives, allegedly at the behest of Trump appointees at the institution. Williams’ show at the Kennedy Center took place Sept. 18, several months after the …

After Donald Trump gutted the Kennedy Center, installed himself as chairman, and put a bunch of cronies on the board, guitarist Yasmin Williams reached out to the institution’s interim executive director, Richard Grenell, with some fairly reasonable questions. Williams, who’s performed at the Kennedy Center numerous times over the years, …