Kennedy Center contract employee Tavish Forsyth, troubled by President Trump's takeover of the national arts institution, strips naked and delivers a 35-minute protest poem suggesting that arts leaders nationwide must take a stronger stand. He was promptly fired.
Kennedy Center contract employee strips nude in protest video and is promptly fired
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