The national tour of Parade , a Tony Award-winning musical about the real-life lynching of a Jewish man in 1915, arrives at the Kennedy Center this week amid President Trump's takeover of the institution and an antisemitic backlash amplified by a member of the Trump administration.

Parade , which ends its national tour in Washington, dramatizes the murder of Mary Phagan and the trial of Leo Frank, who is widely believed to have been falsely accused.

Though the case is more than a century old, it continues to spark controversy from the far-right — including neo-Nazis, right-wing influencers, and the current press secretary at the Department of Defense, who has denied accusations of antisemitism. As NPR has reported , several prominent officials in the Trump administration have ties t

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