Author and Lorain High School graduate Toni Morrison was among those honored by President Barack Obama with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
WASHINGTON — John Glenn, the astronaut, Toni Morrison, the novelist, and Bob Dylan, the musician, could never have planned for the day a president named Barack Obama would give each of them the nation’s highest civilian honor.
As Obama said Tuesday, opening the 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony in the White House East Room, “This
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