Here’s who President Biden gave National Medal awards to during a ceremony at the White House …
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00:00President Joe Biden awarded National Arts and Humanities medals to a handful of celebrities
00:10this week. The 23 recipients include Mindy Kaling, Gladys Knight, Bruce Springsteen,
00:16Vera Wang, and Colson Whitehead.
00:18Colson Whitehead, one of the first and only novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize
00:22for back-to-back works. How in the hell did you do that? Pretty good, man.
00:26I'm kind of looking for back-to-back myself.
00:32These National Medal recipients were selected in 2021 and finally awarded
00:36their medals on Tuesday evening after delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.