Kwame Anthony Appiah, Al Pacino among national medal winners

theGRIO REPORT - President Obama presented the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal to a series of notable figures on Monday, including author Kwame Anthony Appiah and actor Al Pacino...

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President Obama presented the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal to a series of notable figures on Monday, including author Kwame Anthony Appiah, pianist André Watts, and actor Al Pacino.

Here’s the full list of recipients, per the White House.

2011 National Medal of Arts

Will Barnet
Rita Dove
Al Pacino
Emily Rauh Pulitzer
Martin Puryear
Mel Tillis
United Service Organization
André Watts

2011 National Humanities Medal

Kwame Anthony Appiah
John Ashbery
Robert Darnton
Andrew Delbanco
National History Day
Charles Rosen
Teofilo Ruiz
Ramón Saldívar
Amartya Sen

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