He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a former Fulbright scholar.Debbie Allen, Joan Baez, Garth Brooks, violinist Midori and Dick Van Dyke were lauded Sunday night at the 43rd Kennedy Center Honors, which was more of a scaled-down event than in years past amid the pandemic though no less star-studded. Jeff appears regularly on television and radio and teaches political journalism at Georgetown University. Jeff began his career in Frankfurt, Germany as a business reporter before being posted to Brussels, Belgium, where he covered the European Union. He is a winner of the WHCA's “Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure" award and co-winner of the Association for Business Journalists' "Breaking News" award. His and the WHCA's work was recognized with Deutsche Welle's "Freedom of Speech Award." Jeff has asked pointed questions of domestic and foreign leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un. He served as president of the White House Correspondents’ Association in 2016-2017, leading the press corps in advocating for press freedom in the early days of the Trump administration. He has covered the presidencies of Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden and the presidential campaigns of Biden, Trump, Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Jeff Mason is a White House Correspondent for Reuters. The Kennedy Center Honors show will be broadcast on CBS on Dec. "When you have guys like Bono and The Edge and you got people like Amy Grant coming out in support of queer people in the way that they do, it's really brave," said Carlile, a gay woman. We get to carry each other,'” Biden said at the White House, referencing a U2 lyric.Ĭarlile noted the U2 artists' and Grant's support for LGBTQ rights while representing their Christian faith to the world. "At a moment when there’s too much hate, too much anger, too much division here in America and, quite frankly, around the world, we have to remember today, as their song goes, 'We’re one, but we’re not the same. Vedder performed "Elevation" and "One," while Ukrainian singer Jamala joined Carlile and others to perform "Walk On." Sacha Baron Cohen, playing his alter ego character Borat, quipped on stage that he was looking for former President Donald Trump and made reference to anti-Semitic behavior by Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West. The final tribute of the evening went to Irish band U2 which, with members Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr., has won 22 Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. She and husband Jason Moran, along with cellist Sterling Elliott, performed "Oh Yemanja" by León. are crafted moments in time, inspired by art and history and nature," said composer and opera singer Alicia Hall Moran. Singers including Garth Brooks and Patti LaBelle performed some of Knight's songs.Ĭuban-born León is a conductor as well as a composer, whose orchestral piece "Stride" won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Music. "She connects with you on a deeper, spiritual level," said actor LL Cool J, speaking onstage about Knight. Knight, who has won seven Grammy Awards, is famous for hit songs including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight Train to Georgia" as the lead singer of The Pips, which became Gladys Knight & The Pips in 1962. Singers Sheryl Crow, Brandi Carlile, CeCe Winans and BeBe Winans were among the artists who celebrated Grant with a selection of her songs. "Mostly I feel a debt of gratitude," for all the people who have worked with her for four decades, she said. "I feel giddy," she said on the red carpet at the Kennedy Center before the show. Grant rose to prominence as a contemporary Christian music singer who later crossed over to pop stardom, amassing six Grammy Awards. Roberts, who has co-starred in multiple films with Clooney, wore a floor-length gown with framed images of him on it.
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