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August 21, 2017

Entire President's Committee on Arts & Humanities Resigns, Calls on Trump to Step Down
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The entire President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities resigned on
Friday, becoming the first entire presidential committee to resign in
protest. In their resignation letter, the artists spoke out against
Trump's failure to quickly condemn the deadly white supremacist violence
in Charlottesville, writing, "The Administration's refusal to quickly
and unequivocally condemn the cancer of hatred only further emboldens
those who wish America ill." They also called on Trump to step down. The
first letter of each paragraph of their letter spells out the word
"RESIST."


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