In the East Room of the White House on a particularly chilly Saturday afternoon, President Joe Biden bestowed the ...

President Joe Biden awarded the highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 19 people at the White House on ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, who is the 11th ...

President Joe Biden on Saturday announced this year’s recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in his last opportunity ...

Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Denzel Washington and Bono among those who received the highest US civilian honor from the ...

"Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer transformed the struggle for racial justice in America," the White House said in a press release. "As a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, she challenged ...

President Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom to Black luminaries, Denzel Washington, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Fannie Lou ...

On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to Mississippi Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer who died in 1977.