It seems as if he was predestined to receive something like this.” Longtime Congressman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., received one of […]

Bennie Thompson, Mississippi's only Democrat in Washington D.C., is being awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by Democratic President Joe Biden on Thursday.

Thompson is an alumnus of Tougaloo College. He graduated from the school in 1968. Sign up for our Newsletters. He was honored for his decades-long commitment to democracy, justice

President Joe Biden is bestowing the second highest civilian award on Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, who led the congressional investigation into the Capitol riot.

President Joe Biden is bestowing the second highest civilian award on Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, who led the congressional investigation into the Capitol riot.

President Joe Biden is bestowing the second highest civilian medal on Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, leaders of the congressional investigation into the Jan 6., 2021 Capitol riot.

President Joe Biden will bestow the nation's second-highest civilian award, the Presidential Citizens Medal, to Liz Cheney, Bennie Thompson, and 18 ot

President Joe Biden on Thursday awarded the second highest civilian medal to Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, leaders of the congressional investigation into the riot at the U.S.

Biden gave the Presidential Citizens Medal to Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, two members of the Jan. 6 committee.

President Biden awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to two leaders of a House panel tasked with investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection of the U.S. Capitol.

President Joe Biden is bestowing the second highest civilian award on Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson — the lawmakers who led the congressional investigation into the violent Jan. 6, 2021, U.S.