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Published 01-27-21

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NEW YORKJanuary 27, 2021 /CSRwire/ In response to the disproportionate and devastating impact COVID-19 has had on Black communities and other underserved communities of color, the first of hundreds of COVID-19 testing, vaccine awareness and education events nationwide took place at the historicAbyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, January 25th. At the event Reverend Al Sharpton and Reverend Jacques DeGraff weretested to demonstrate the growing importance and ease of testing, even as vaccines begin to be available.

Quest Diagnostics[NYSE: DGX], in partnership with theChoose Healthy Life Black Clergy Action Planand theUnited Way of New York City,provided the testing at this event and will support similar activities in 50 locations in New York City, Atlanta, Detroit, Newark and Washington, DC. over the coming months.

Despite the recent introduction of vaccines in the United States, COVID-19 testing is still critical as vaccine supplies are limited and, according to public health authorities, will not be available for mass distribution until the spring of 2021. One year after the first case of COVID-19 in the United States, there remains a tremendous need for access to testing to help prevent the virus spread and to ensure that those impacted get access to treatments sooner and continue to protect the health of the community. As the number of COVID-19 cases continue to rise, testing will continue to have a significant impact on both local and national public health policies, travel restrictions, return to school and offices all of which directly impact our countrys economy.

On Inauguration Day, President Joe Bidens new CDC director called to ramp up COVID-19 testing, even as vaccines are being rolled out. The United States needs to quickly ramp up the amount and pace of COVID-19 testing and vaccinations to bring the current outbreak under control, Dr. Rochelle Walensky noted in her first official statement as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Better, healthier days lie ahead. But to get there, COVID-19 testing, surveillance, and vaccination must accelerate rapidly, Walensky said in a statement. We must also confront the longstanding public health challenges of social and racial injustice and inequity that have demanded action for far too long.

All too often, underserved communities have been testing deserts during the pandemic. Equity doesnt happen by default, saidDr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, chair ofPresident Bidens Health Equity Task Force at a recent Conclave held by Choose Healthy Life to launch testing in hard hit, underserved communities. At the Conclave, Dr. Nunez-Smith explained thatCOVID-19 testing remains a critical element in slowing the spread and tragic impact of the disease, even as vaccines are distributed. A majority of Black Americans are showing up at hospitals, having never had a COVID-19 test, often with an infection that has progressed so far that antibody therapy is no longer an effective treatment. Testing for COVID has never been more critical, said Dr. Smith.

According to areportfrom the Boston Consulting Group, even if current and future vaccines prove their effectiveness, the need to test for COVID-19 will continue in order to: quickly diagnose symptomatic patients; monitor the spread of disease to larger groups; protect vulnerable populations such as the elderly; provide access to return to work or travel on public transportation and test for immunity from vaccines.

Because testing remains essential in the fight against this pandemic, its critical that we make testing easily accessible as COVID-19 continues to devastate Black communities, said Debra Frazer-Howze, founder of Choose Healthy Life. We know from experience that leadership from the Black clergy makes all the difference when it comes to building trust in our communities, and we are grateful for their essential support.

Along with the vaccine rollout, testing will continue to play an essential role over the coming months in diagnosing COVID-19 and helping to prevent its continued spread, saidSteve Rusckowski, CEO of Quest Diagnostics. Our work with our partners Choose Healthy Life and the United Way of New York City to save lives and stop the disproportionate devastation COVID-19 is wreaking on the Black community is both urgent and necessary. Quest is focused on taking action to address health inequities across our country.

Rusckowski explained that Quest Diagnostics involvement with Choose Healthy Life is part of a larger $100MQuest for Health Equity (Q4HE)commitment the company made in 2020 to close health disparities, starting with COVID-19. Q4HE is Quests long-term commitment to utilize testing and information to address critical health issues that disproportionately impact underserved communities, such as heart disease, diabetes, and COPD.

At theJanuary 25th event, Reverends Sharpton and DeGraff (and all the NYC Clergy) focused on influencing their parishioners and community members by setting an example that testing is important. This will be the first of hundreds of testing events being organized by a partnership of the Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Action Plan, Quest Diagnostics and its Foundation, and United Way New York City. United Way of New York City is proud to be working together with Choose Healthy Life, leveraging our expertise in convening and mobilizing the best of the nonprofit, corporate and public health sectors to provide needed COVID-19 testing to communities of color, beginning in five major cities across the United States, saidSheena Wright, President and CEO of United Way of New York City.

According to a recentQuest Diagnostics Health Trends report entitled COVID-19: Magnifying Racial Disparities in U.S. Healthcare, Black Americans view greater testing access as critical to getting the pandemic better under control. Nearly 3 in 4 Black Americans (73%) surveyed view greater access to diagnostic COVID-19 testing as absolutely essential or very important to slowing the pandemic.

In addition to COVID-19 testing, Quest Diagnostics will work with the Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Action Plan to provide education and guidance to community members in each of the cities with testing sites. This will include empowering teams of health navigators local outreach specialists to engage their neighbors, build trust and provide critical information to help reduce the destructive toll that COVID-19 is taking on Black communities. Dr. Nunez-Smith emphasized that work must be done to build trust with vulnerable populations via the clergy and culturally relevant local healthcare workers.

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About Quest Diagnostics

Quest Diagnosticsempowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the world'slargest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treatdisease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve health care management. Quest Diagnostics annually servesone in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States, and our 47,000employees understand that, in the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspireactions that transform lives.www.QuestDiagnostics.com.

About Choose Healthy Life

Choose Healthy LifeBlack Clergy Action Plan is a program developed byD. Fraser Associates(DFA) basedon the DFA Choose Healthy Life Standard a sustainable, scalable and transferable approach to publichealth. The highly successful Standard was created by Debra Fraser-Howze, principal at DFA and founder ofthe National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, to address the AIDS epidemic. It is centered aroundthe Black church the oldest and most trusted institutions in the Black community. Partnering with theUnited Way agencies, local health departments and community-based organizations, churches receive thenecessary resources, training and support to make available health services to the regions most vulnerableindividuals. The Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Action Plan has been made possible through the supportof founding partnerQuest Diagnostics, theQuest Diagnostics Foundationand fromResolve to Save Lives, aglobal health initiative focused on helping advance scalable, proven strategies to prevent and address epidemics. To learn more, visit:www.ChooseHealthyLife.org

About United Way of New York City

United Way of New York City(UWNYC) fights for the self-sufficiency of every low-income New Yorker by taking on the toughest challenges and creating new solutions to old problems. We win by helping familiesshift from barely surviving to thriving. We unite by mobilizing the best ideas, relevant data, internal andexternal experts, and resourcesfrom money to manpower. UWNYC maximizes impact by coordinating andaligning organizations, companies, local government, and New Yorkers to help families eliminate tough choices and live better while making ends meet. To learn more, visit:www.unitedwaynyc.org.

Quest Diagnosticsempowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the world'slargest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treatdisease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve health care management. Quest Diagnostics annually servesone in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States, and our 47,000employees understand that, in the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspireactions that transform lives.

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"Anila lives a fabulous life working hard and playing harder," her bio reads. "During her spare time, Anila enjoys time with her family and friends, Bollywood dancing, traveling, working out and, of course, shopping."

The returning cast members include Dr. Jacqueline Walters, Dr. Simone Whitmore, Dr. Heavenly Kimes, Dr. Contessa Metcalfe and Toya Bush Harris. Rounding out the group are friends of the cast Lisa Nicole Cloud, Quad Webb and Kari Wells.

In PEOPLE's exclusive first look at the supertease for the upcoming season, Anila introduces herself and meets her fellow cast members.

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"You work?" someone then asks her, to which Anila responds by sharing that she's a blogger.

"I didn't think that was a job," Heavenly says.

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Podcast Features Coming-Of-Age Stories from High Profile New Yorkers, including Darryl DMC McDaniels; Sigourney Weaver; Neil deGrasse Tyson; Glenn Ligon; Al Sharpton; Sewell Chan; Danielle Guizio; and more

New York, NY, Jan. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Museum of the City of New York (MCNY), New Yorks storyteller for nearly a century, together with producer and historian Kevin Burke, today announced details of a new podcast and live event series, Your Hometown, a show about growing up and how where were from shapes who we are. The first season of this innovative audio offering, a co-presentation between Kevin Burke Productions and MCNY, focuses on New York City as a hometown and features prominent New Yorkersrepresenting a range of backgrounds, neighborhoods, and industriessharing often never-before-heard details of their formative years growing up in and around the five boroughs. Your Hometown launches on February 2 with the first of a two-part interview with Darryl DMC McDaniels (Hollis, Queens), co-founder of the legendary hip-hop group Run-DMC, and will coincide with a live virtual event featuring a conversation between Burke and McDaniels. Future episodes (guest list below) will be released bi-weekly on http://www.yourhometown.org and be available on the Museums website and wherever podcasts are available.

Conceived and hosted by Burke, Your Hometown seeks to illuminate and reveal one guest, one hometown, and one coming-of-age story at a time. In the case of NYC, this deep and personalized view allows listeners to gain an understanding of the vastness of human experience in the city. At a time when many feel placeless, Your Hometown uses the power of storytelling to connect listeners to our guests, their own roots, and to each other.

Hometowns exist at the unique intersection of time, place and memory. They are the crossroads of our coming-of-age-years and composed of people and places that shape us forever, says Kevin Burke. Whether we stay, move away, or come back, our hometowns loom large and cast longer shadows, marking a permanent geography within our lives that take on mythical aspects in the rearview. Everyone is from someplace, and everywhere is somewhere.

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New York as a hometown is one of the most iconic, dynamic, and resilient hometowns in the United States, says Whitney Donhauser, Ronay Menschel Director and President of Museum of the City of New York. As the City's storyteller for nearly 100 years, we are thrilled to partner with Kevin to bring this series to life and to share these formative tales from New Yorkers and the neighborhoods that helped shape who they are today.

I couldnt be more thrilled to be partnering with the Museum of the City of New York on this inaugural season, Burke adds. More than any other cultural institution in the city, MCNYs mission is to tell the New York story from the ground up, and it has a long track record of engaging a diverse audience interested in knowing the real New York. This is a show about what happened to our guests here and how they met the world before the world met them. Its a model I hope to bring to other iconic cities and towns across the country, and its exciting to be establishing that blueprint here with my friends at MCNY.

Several Your Hometown interviews were recorded on site at the Museum of the City of New York, and the Museum will present live virtual events in tandem with the episodes, including one timed to the February 2 launch show with Darryl DMC McDaniels. Other upcoming talks include fashion designer Danielle Guizio on Thursday, April 9. Tickets are donation based and can be found at mcny.org.

The production team includes award-winning radio journalist and executive producer Robert Krulwich, a brilliant storyteller with vast broadcasting experience including WNYCs RadioLab. Krulwich met Burke in the New York neighborhood they shared, which in itself is a testament to the podcasts concept.

YOUR HOMETOWN

Launches: February 2 (Approx. 25 episodes x 60 min.; bi-weekly)

Creator/Host/Executive Producer: Kevin Burke

Executive producer: Robert Krulwich

Co-presenter: Museum of the City of New York

Full episode credits can be found at the podcast website, yourhometown.org

Connect with Your Hometown

Instagram: @yourhometownpodcast

Facebook: @yourhometownpodcast

Twitter: @YHTpodcast

Patreon: /yourhometown

FUTURE GUESTS

Maria Bartiromo, financial journalist and news anchor (Bay Ridge, Brooklyn)

Tiffany Cabn, public defender and activist (South Richmond Hill, Queens)

Sewell Chan, journalist (Flushing, Queens)

Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist (Castle Hill/Riverdale, Bronx)

Danielle Guizio, fashion designer (Fairfield, NJ/Lower East Side, Manhattan)

Sherrilyn Ifill, civil rights lawyer (Jamaica, Queens)

David Johansen, singer, songwriter, and actor (West Brighton, Staten Island)

Glenn Ligon, visual artist (South Bronx)

Sonia Manzano, actress and author (South Bronx)

Lynn Nottage, playwright (Boerum Hill, Brooklyn)

Priyanka Naik, chef and author (Annadale, Staten Island)

Richard Price, novelist and screenwriter (East Bronx)

Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights activist and talk show host (Hollis, Queens; Brownsville, Brooklyn)

Pamela Talese, visual artist (Upper East Side, Manhattan)

Suzanne Vega, singer and songwriter (East Harlem and Upper West Side, Manhattan)

Sigourney Weaver, actress (Upper East Side, Manhattan)

And others

SUPPORT

Your Hometown is made possible in part with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Additional support provided by Joan K. Davidson (The J.M. Kaplan Fund), Rudolph Rauch/Lanegate Foundation, Lori and John Berisford, Claudette Mayer, Paul Sperry, Victoria F. Morris, Peter M. Wolf, Kenneth J. Halpern, the Newburgh Institute, David Phelps Hamar, and an anonymous donor.

ABOUT THE CREATOR/HOST

KEVIN BURKE is a historian, journalist, and documentary film producer who has developed the podcast series Your Hometown, which he also hosts and produces. In addition to serving as the director of research at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, he is the founder and CEO of Kevin Burke Productions, Inc., a New-York based company. His film credits include working as a producer on the popular genealogy series Finding Your Roots, now in its seventh season on PBS, The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This is Our Song (PBS, 2021), and Reconstruction: America after the Civil War (PBS, 2019), winner of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. With Henry Louis Gates Jr., Burke is the coauthor of And Still I Rise: Black America since MLK (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2015) and co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northups 1853 memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (W. W. Norton & Co., 2016). Burke graduated from Harvard College in 1998 and from Harvard Law School in 2003. He received his masters degree in History and Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard in 2004 and 2006, respectively. A member of the New York State Bar, Burke serves on several boards, including as chair of the Hudson River Valley Greenway Conservancy and president of the Downing Film Center in Newburgh, New York, his hometown. He and his wife Anna live with their two children in New York City. You can follow him on Twitter @Kevin_M_Burke.

ABOUT THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

The Museum of the City of New York was established in 1923 as the first museum in the United States dedicated to the study of a single city. Located at the top of Manhattans Museum Mile, across from Central Parks Conservatory Gardens, the Museum of the City of New Yorks mission is to foster understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the worlds most influential metropolis. It engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the citys past, present, and future. For almost a century, the Museum has been offering locals and visitors alike award-winning and critically-acclaimed exhibitions, including New York at Its Core; public and virtual programs; and educational programs provided by the Frederick A.O. Schwarz Education Center. At the center of its offerings, the Museums collections contains approximately 750,000 objects, including prints, photographs, decorative arts, costumes, paintings, sculpture, toys, and theatrical memorabilia, with close to 200,000 of them available online.

To connect with the Museum and stay informed about virtual programs; follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @MuseumofCityNY and at Facebook.com/MuseumofCityNY. Visitors may also experience MCNY's walking tours and stories on the Urban Archive app and on social media. For more information, please visit http://www.mcny.org.

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NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --On Martin Luther King Jr. Day,one year after the last MLK Day saw the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, Choose Healthy Life, led by Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Calvin O. Butts, III,will host the Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Conclave, a convening of100+ Black clergy, America's leading public health officials, corporate and scientific leaders to step into the breach and address COVID-19 in the Black community as part of a national mobilization effort to boost testing and additional health resources.

"Tragically, too many African Americans get their first test for COVID-19 when they're getting admitted to the hospital, having missed the critical early window when some of the best treatments are most effective. We must elevate the importance of both testing and getting the word out about vaccination," said Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, the incoming Chair of the COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force for the Biden-Harris administration. "The Black Church is among the most trusted institutions in the Black community which makes it an ideal venue to raise awareness and address health disparities," added Nunez-Smith who will be addressing the Conclave on Monday.

When: The Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Conclave will be held from 10:00 am ET to 11:30 am ET on January 18th, 2020.

For media access to the Conclave, please contact Anne Smith at uwnyc@thetascgroup.com, (917) 751-4839.

Non-media members may view the event by visiting the Choose Healthy Life Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Choose-Healthy-Life-104447088162443/

What: Choose Healthy Life is hosting a Conclave of 100+ Black clergy, America's leading public health officials, nonprofit and corporate leaders, like United Way of New York City and Quest Diagnostics, for panels and Q&As on COVID-19 in the Black community. The Conclave will also brief leaders on the Choose Healthy Life Action Plan -- a sustainable, scalable and transferable approach to address health disparities by providing services such as COVID testing and vaccine education in five major US cities.

This Action Plan is being led by the Choose Healthy Life National Black Clergy Health Leadership Council, co-chaired by Rev. Sharpton (National Action Network, New York, N.Y.) and Rev. Butts (Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York, N.Y.), and includes council members Rev. Jacques DeGraff (Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, New York, N.Y.); Rev. David Jefferson (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Newark, N.J.); Rev. Horace Sheffield (New Destiny Christian Fellowship, Detroit, Mich.); Rev. Frank Tucker (First Baptist Church, Washington D.C.); and Rev. Raphael Warnock (Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga.). The Council has among its medical advisors Dr. Louis Sullivan, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, former U.S. Congresswoman Dr. Donna Christensen, and Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies and former Director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Key Attendees, Speakers and Panelists:

Rev. Calvin O. Butts, III, Co-Chair, Choose Healthy Life National Black Clergy Health Leadership Council, Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York City, New YorkRev. Al Sharpton, Co-Chair, Choose Healthy Life National Black Clergy Health Leadership Council, National Action Network (NAN)Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, Co-Chair of President-elect Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board and incoming Chair of the Health Equity Task Force for the Biden-Harris administrationDr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of HealthSteve Rusckowski, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Quest DiagnosticsDebra Fraser-Howze, Founder, Choose Healthy LifeSheena Wright, President and CEO, United Way of New York CityRev. Jacques DeGraff, Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, New York, N.Y.Rev. David Jefferson, Metropolitan Baptist Church, Newark, N.J.Rev. Horace Sheffield, New Destiny Christian Fellowship, Detroit, Mich.Rev. Frank Tucker, First Baptist Church, Washington D.C.Dr. Tom Frieden, President and Chief Executive Officer, Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital StrategiesDr. Louis Sullivan, Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Founding Dean, Morehouse School of MedicineHonorable Dr. Donna Christensen, Member of U.S. Congress (1997 to 2015)Dr. Wayne J. Riley, President, SUNY Downstate Health Services University, the Chair, Board of Trustees, New York Academy of Medicine and the former 10th President, Meharry Medical College Dr. Reed Tuckson, Former Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs for UnitedHealth GroupDr. Nancy Messonier, Director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory DiseasesDr. James E.K. Hildreth, President and Chief Executive Officer, Meharry Medical College

To learn more about Choose Healthy Life, please click here.

About Choose Healthy Life Choose Healthy LifeBlack Clergy Action Plan is a program developed by D. Fraser Associates(DFA) based on the DFA Choose Healthy Life Standard a sustainable, scalable and transferable approach to public health. The highly successful Standard was created by Debra Fraser-Howze, principal at DFA and founder of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, to address the AIDS epidemic. It is centered around the Black church the oldest and most trusted institutions in the Black community. Partnering with the United Way agencies, local health departments and community-based organizations, churches receive the necessary resources, training and support to make available health services to the region's most vulnerable individuals. The Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Action Plan has been made possible through the support of founding partner Quest Diagnostics, the Quest Diagnostics Foundationand from Resolve to Save Lives, a global health initiative focused on helping advance scalable, proven strategies to prevent and address epidemics. To learn more, visit: http://www.ChooseHealthyLife.org

About United Way of New York City United Way of New York City(UWNYC) fights for the self-sufficiency of every low-income New Yorker by taking on the toughest challenges and creating new solutions to old problems. We win by helping families shift from barely surviving to thriving. We unite by mobilizing the best ideas, relevant data, internal and external experts, and resourcesfrom money to manpower. UWNYC maximizes impact by coordinating and aligning organizations, companies, local government, and New Yorkers to help families eliminate tough choices and live better while making ends meet. To learn more, visit: http://www.unitedwaynyc.org.

About Quest Diagnostics Quest Diagnosticsempowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the world's largest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve health care management. Quest Diagnostics annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States, and our 47,000 employees understand that, in the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspire actions that transform lives. http://www.QuestDiagnostics.com.

About Resolve to Save Lives Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, aims to prevent at least 100 million deaths from cardiovascular disease and epidemics. Through its Prevent Epidemics program, Resolve to Save Lives has rapidly leveraged existing networks to partner with countries throughout Africa and beyond to combat COVID-19. Resolve is led by Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is part of the global health organization Vital Strategies. To find out more visit:https://www.resolvetosavelives.orgor Twitter @ResolveTSL.

Resolve to Save Lives created a website calledPreventEpidemics.orgthat shows how prepared each country is for an epidemic, including COVID-19. This site is also aresourcefor current coronavirus statistics and resources.

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On Jan. 20, stars and musicians are coming together to celebrate the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. These virtual events, featuring Tom Hanks, Lady Gaga and Bruce Springsteen, among others, will kick off this weekend and wrap on the evening of Inauguration Day.

Check out upcoming events below.

America United: An Inauguration Welcome Event Celebrating Americas Changemakers (Jan. 16 at 7 p.m.) From the Biden-Harris Inaugural Committee, this livestream program will feature trailblazers Whoopi Goldberg, Darren Criss, the Resistance Revival Choir, Cristela Alonzo, Nik Dodani and the Black Pumas.

Keegan-Michael Key and Debra Messings Pre-Inauguration Concert (Jan. 17 at 8 p.m. ET) Hosted by Key and Messing, the Pre-Inauguration Concert will feature performances from Carole King, Will.I.Am, James Taylor, Fall Out Boy, Connie Britton and Kal Penn, among others. Money raised from ticket sales will go toward inauguration programming.

United We Serve National Day of Service (Jan. 18) This virtual concert on Martin Luther King Jr. Day will remember the late civil rights movement activist and celebrate Bidens upcoming inauguration. Aloe Blacc, Rev. Dr. Bernice King, Martin Luther King III, Chesca, Rep. Sharice Davids, Rosario Dawson, Andra Day, Yo-Yo Ma, Rev. Al Sharpton, Sean Patrick Thomas, Diane Warren, Lynn Whitfield and Bebe Winans are among the stars who will make appearances.

Swearing-in Ceremony (Jan. 20 at 11:30 a.m. ET) Wednesday mornings inauguration ceremony will showcase Lady Gagas performance of The Star Spangled Banner, as well as a musical act from Jennifer Lopez.

Creative Coalitions Presidential Inaugural Ball (Jan. 20 at 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET) Featuring a special performance by Hamilton star Christopher Jackson, the quadrennial event will bring together Hollywood talent, members of Congress and other industry professionals. More than two dozen Congress members will join stars to commemorate Bidens inauguration and to support the arts.

Celebrating America Primetime Special (Jan. 20 at 8:30 p.m.) This 90-minute TV special, hosted by Tom Hanks, will celebrate Bidens inauguration with performances from Demi Lovato, Justin Timberlake, Jon Bon Jovi and Ant Clemons. Bruce Springsteen, the Foo Fighters, John Legend, Eva Longoria and Kerry Washington will also make appearances. The program, airing on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC and PBS, will also honor American heroes who are serving their communities, including frontline, health care workers and teachers.

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