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Bob Dylan and Natalie Cole are on the list of performers US President Barack Obama will welcome next month to the White House for a concert honoring music of the civil rights movement.

According to the White House statement on Tuesday, Jennifer Hudson, John Mellencamp and John Legend will perform in a concert on February 10. The show, also featuring Seal, Blind Boys of Alabama and Smokey Robinson, will be hosted by Morgan Freeman and Queen Latifah.

The First Lady plans to have 120 high school students discuss with the performers about the influence of music regarding the civil rights movement, while the evening includes the Obamas and readings from civil right discourses.

Actress Jane Lynch, mostly knows as Adidas-lovin coach Sue Sylvester on TV’s Glee, has blasted President Obama, considering him a “huge disappointment” for his policies regarding gay rights.

In a discussion with The Guardian, London last week, the actress disapproved the Proposition 8 amendment, banning gay marriage in California. The star says the clause in unconstitutional, as the majority should not be allowed to vote on the lives of the minority, “Shouldn’t there be safeguards against the majority voting on the rights of a minority? If people voted on civil rights in the ’60s, it would have never happened. It took somebody like (U.S. President) Lyndon Johnson going, ‘F all of you! I’m going to do this.’ Obama won’t do it. He’s a huge disappointment to me.”

Last Week, President Obama selected a transsexual in a senior position at the Department of Commerce.