Phil Donahue and Michelle Yeoh are among the many media and leisure recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which Joe Biden will current on the White Home later at present.
Different honorees embrace former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), former Vice President Al Gore, former Secretary of State John Kerry and former senator Elizabeth Dole. Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle, the founding father of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, additionally might be honored.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation’s highest civilian honor. The White Home final held a ceremony in July, 2022.
Donahue is being acknowledged as “a journalist and tv pioneer who pioneered the daytime issue-oriented tv discuss present.” Yeoh is being acknowledged as the primary Asian to win the Academy Award for finest actress, and as somebody who “continues to shatter stereotypes and enrich American tradition.”
Others on the checklist embrace Clarence B. Jones, the civil rights activist and lawyer who helped draft Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech; swimmer Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky; educator and activist Opal Lee; Ellen Ochoa, the primary Hispanic lady in area; astronomer Jane Rigby; United Farm Staff President Teresa Romero, and LGBT activist Judy Shepard.
Being honored posthumously might be Medgar Evers, former senator Frank Lautenberg and multi-sports legend Jim Thorpe.