Members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned Friday over U.S. President Donald Trump's response to the violent unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia. Your values are not American values," the members wrote in their resignation letter dated Friday. The only private member who did not sign the resignation letter was Broadway director George C. Wolfe. (Getty Images)The arts and humanities committee was established in 1982 under former president Ronald Reagan and works with both government and private agencies in promoting the arts. James Murdoch, the CEO of 21st Century Fox, said Trump's response "concern all of us as Americans and free people," in a personal email first reported by the New York Times on Thursday.

Source: CBC News August 18, 2017 16:30 UTC