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President Barack Obama will award the medals to a
star-studded list of Americans to honor their accomplishments in
public service, entertainment and sports during a Nov. 24
ceremony, the White House said.
Gloria Estefan, Grammy Award-winning Cuban-American singer, and
her husband Emilio Estefan, a producer and songwriter, will each
receive the medal, along with Broadway composer Stephen
Sondheim, award-winning conductor Itzhak Perlman, and singer
James Taylor, the White House said.
Bonnie Carroll, known for her work with veterans, also will be
honored, as will long-serving Democratic Maryland Senator
Barbara Mikulski, former Indiana Democratic Congressman Lee
Hamilton, NASA mathematician Katherine G. Johnson, and former
Environmental Protection Agency head William Ruckelshaus.
Posthumous honors will be given to New York Yankee catcher Yogi
Berra, African American trail-blazing Congresswoman Shirley
Chisholm, Indian treaty rights advocate Billy Frank, Jr., and
Japanese-American civil rights activist Minoru Yasui, the White
House said.
(Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Dan Grebler)
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