Biden honors actors, artists, musicians at White House

STORY: Among the recipients of the 2021 National Medal of Arts, delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, were actors

Mindy Kaling and Julia Louis-Dreyfus; singers Gladys Knight and Bruce Springsteen and fashion designer Vera Wang.

According to the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Medal of Arts is the highest award given to artists by the United States government.

Novelist Colson Whitehead, poet and author Richard Blanco, writer Walter Isaacson, and advocate for the poor Bryan Stevenson were among those to be awarded with the Humanities Medal.