Washington. TIME magazine has chosen America’s President Elect Joe Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala Harris as ‘Person of the Year 2020’. Time’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsanthal said Biden and Harris won the honor because they ‘changed the American story’. Both showed that the strength of sympathy is more than that of division.
Felsanthal said, ‘Every elected president since Franklin D. Roosevelt is Person of the Year for one reason or the other during his tenure. For the first time we have included the Vice President. Other contestants for TIME’s Person of the Year include President Donald Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci; And there was also the movement for racial justice – BLM. Also on Thursday, Time named Korean boy band BTS as Entertainer of the Year and named Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James as its Athlete of the Year.
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NBA star LeBron James has been awarded the Athlete of the Year and Korean pop group BTS as Entertainer of the Year. The Ceremony of the Time Awards was hosted by actors Issa Ray and Matthew Mackagni. Vanessa Brent, John Cena, Yoyoma, BTS, HER and Bruce Springsteen also participated in the event. Time started these awards in the year 1927 and was initially named Special Influential Person of the Year. In 2019, the award was received by environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
