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flag Robert De Niro to read Lincoln at Carnegie Hall concert amid controversy over Trump's Kennedy Center overhaul.

flag Actor Robert De Niro will recite excerpts from Abraham Lincoln’s 1838 Lyceum Address at a Carnegie Hall benefit concert for Tibet House US, featuring Philip Glass’s Symphony No. flag 15, “Lincoln,” which was canceled as a Kennedy Center premiere. flag The cancellation followed President Donald Trump’s removal of the center’s leadership and renaming it the Trump Kennedy Center, a move critics say requires congressional approval. flag The concert, co-directed by Glass and Laurie Anderson, draws attention to cultural tensions amid Trump’s plan to close the center for a two-year renovation, part of his campaign against perceived “woke” culture. flag Several prominent artists, including Bela Fleck and Lin-Manuel Miranda, have withdrawn from Kennedy Center events in protest.

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