Indian-American actress Mindy Kaling received the National Humanities Award, know who gets this honor

Washington. Indian-American actress and producer Mindy Kaling and several others were honored with the prestigious National Medal for inspiring a new generation of storytellers by US President Joe Biden at a ceremony at the White House. of Arts-2021′ (National Medal of Arts-2021). Indian-American Vera Mindy Chockalingam is popularly known as Mindy Kalinga.

The National Medal of Arts is the highest award given by the US government to artists, arts patrons and groups, to exemplary people and organizations who have advanced the arts in America and inspired others with their distinguished achievements. has prompted.

Mindy is the first black woman to make a primetime sitcom
Presenting the medal to the actress, Biden said that Kaling was the first black woman to create, write and star in a “primetime sitcom”. First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband were present at the award ceremony. She added that the 43-year-old actress empowers the new generation by telling her stories with frankness and honesty.

The US President said, “Daughters of Indian immigrants, we know about them, don’t we? Our Vice President is (also) the daughter of an Indian expatriate. His (Vice President’s) mother was a great scientist.”

In addition to Mindy, Judith Francisca Baca, Fred Eichner, Jose Feliciano, Gladys Knight, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Antonio Martorell-Cardona, Joan Shigekawa, Bruce Springsteen, Vera Wang, the Billie Holiday Theater and the International Association of Blacks in Dance have been awarded the National Medal. of Arts’ medals.

And the list of winners of the 2021 ‘National Humanities Medal’ includes Richard Blanco, Johannetta Betsch Cole, Walter Isaacson, Earl Lewis, Henrietta Mann, Ann Patchett, Brian Stevenson, Amy Tan, Tara Westover, Colson Whitehead and Native America Calling .

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