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Georgetown University, which produces the concert, says it's moving to the historic Howard Theater to save money.
Longtime music producer Nolan Williams Jr.
For this year's concert, Williams wrote a piece called Just Like Selma.
The headliner for this year's Let Freedom Ring is the actor and rapper Common.
President Trump's appointments to the U.S.
Commission of Fine Arts are Mary Ann Carter, who is also chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, conservative art critic Roger Kimball, Matthew Taylor of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and architect James McCreery.
whom Trump hired to oversee the new White House ballroom.
McCreary was also a fine arts commissioner during Trump's first term.
While McCreary is no longer the lead architect on the ballroom, he and the other commissioners will review plans for the renovations at a meeting that is open to the public on January 22.
Elizabeth Blair, NPR News, Washington.
In the buttoned-up 1950s, Brigitte Bardot was a revelation.
Blonde mane, lush lips, gorgeous figure, and sexually liberated.
Bardot grew up in Paris and studied ballet.
She worked with France's most famous directors, including Jean-Luc Godard.
She married four times and had several lovers, including singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg.
Bardot became an outspoken animal rights activist.
She was also accused of inciting racial hatred for her comments about Islam.