Moscow: World-renowned Time magazine has awarded the newly elected President of the United States, Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the title of ‘Person of the Year’ for the year 2020.
Announcing the award winner, American singer Bruce Springsteen said, “In 2020, Time Person of the Year elected President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Significantly, Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in the elections held in November this year and Kamala Harris was elected the first black and first South Asian Vice President of the United States. In 2016, Time magazine selected Donald Trump as ‘Person of the Year’.
On Thursday morning, the magazine announced that there were four people on its “shortlist”: President-elect Joe Biden, President Donald Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci and “frontline health care workers” and the “movement for racial justice.”
Time also named its picks for “Athlete of the Year” and “Entertainer of the Year” on Thursday.
Time selected LeBron James as 2020’s Athlete of the Year. James won his fourth NBA championship in 2020 — his first with the Los Angeles Lakers — to conclude the league’s pandemic-shortened season, which finished in a “bubble” format. James also continued to publicly speak out against racial injustice and became a political touchstone throughout the year, regularly sharing his political views on social media. He also organized the voter registration of thousands of urban voters ahead of the 2020 election.
Korean pop ban BTS was named by Time as the 2020 Entertainers of the Year. The seven-member band has broken streaming records around the world and helped K-pop go mainstream in the U.S. and around the world.
Time has selected a “Person of the Year” each year since 1927. According to the magazine, the “Person of the Year” is “usually an individual but sometimes multiple people who greatly impacted the country and world during the calendar year.”
