On the same Thursday evening that Vice-President J.D. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance were aggressively booed during a National Symphony Orchestra performance at the Kennedy Center, another type of protest was taking place nearby.
Roughly 630 feet away from the center’s concert hall, on the Millennium Stage located at the opposite end of the long, red-carpeted Grand Foyer, folk musicians Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman paused a half-hour into their set to display a pair of signs.