He said of the concert at the Lincoln Memorial: "I don't know if this has ever been done before." In fact, several presidents have held pre-inauguration concerts there, including George W. Bush ...

Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial concert wasn’t the moment of racial reconciliation we like to think August 26, 2020 Marian Anderson singing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the ...

If the Lincoln Memorial Concert was the mainstream celebration of the new Obama administration, then the Big Shoulders Ball, held a day later at the Black Cat, was the indie party.

"This journey began 18 months ago," Trump said after the concert. "I had something to do with it, but you had much more to do with it than I did. I'm the messenger. I'm just the messenger." ...

On April 9, 1939, singer Marian Anderson sang before 75,000 fans in Washington, D.C. in a concert that predated rallies that would shape the civil rights movement decades later.

AP FileIn this April 9, 1939, file photo, contralto singer Marian Anderson performs on the steps of Washington's Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday after she had been refused permission to perform ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. A one-night concert version of the Tony ...

Seventy-five years ago today, on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, African-American contralto Marian Anderson performed an unprecedented open-air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in ...

COME FROM AWAY: In Concert at the Lincoln Memorial . On the eve of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Ford's Theatre presented a one-night-only concert performance of Come From Away in a breathtaking ...