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Queen Latifah is hosting an event in honor of late trailblazing contralto Marian Anderson. The Great Stages Gala Concert Honoring Marian Anderson will take place Saturday, June 8, after a ceremony during which the Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Acts in Philadelphia will be renamed Marian Anderson Hall.

The concert will feature performances by Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra alongside Audra McDonald, Angel Blue and Marcus Roberts, all of whom will take the stage with musical selections connected to Marian.

Among the songs being performed are “My Country, ’Tis of Thee” and a special rendition of Florence Price’s “My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord,” which Anderson sung on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939, after her race prevented her from singing at the Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

The Great Stages Gala Concert starts at 8 p.m. ET, following a black-tie donor reception on the Academy of Music stage and preceding a donor after-party. 

Tickets are currently on sale via EnsembleArtsPhilly.org and PhilOrch.org. Proceeds from the benefit will go toward the “restoration of the Academy of Music, along with the programs, people, and venues of The Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts, including Marian Anderson Hall,” according to a press release.

Marian Anderson was an acclaimed contralto who performed operas, spirituals and more alongside renowned orchestras between 1925 and 1965. She was the first Black singer to perform a lead role at the Metropolitan Opera and received awards including the first Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963), the Congressional Gold Medal (1977), the Kennedy Center Honors (1978), the National Medal of Arts (1986) and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1991).

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Zendaya dazzles as the May cover star of both American and British Vogue.

For the American Vogue issue, which was photographed by Annie Leibovitz, the two-time Emmy winning actress appears in a red Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda dress for the cover shot.

In additional images from the spread, Zendaya, who is a co-chair for this year’s Met Gala, shows off her incredible fashion sense and talent posing in front of the camera.

The fashion editor for the shoot was her longtime stylist and fashion collaborator Law Roach, who told the outlets, “What she allows me to do is to come up with the big story, the big idea, and she takes that and she whittles it down a bit.”

Zendaya’s British Vogue shoot was photographed by Carlijn Jacobs and leans more into “sports luxe,” according to a press release. 

Zendaya told the outlets that on the red carpet, there’s “a different being that comes into me — my own Sasha Fierce.” She continued, “I got to get into a zone of being that part of myself, which is definitely not a thousand percent natural.”

The actress and producer also expressed how she deals with the downside of worldwide fame: finding privacy.

“You just kind of get used to the fact that, ‘Oh, I’m also one of these art pieces you’re going to take a picture of,'” she shared after discussing a time she visited the Louvre with her boyfriend, Tom Holland, and photographs from their trip went viral. “I just gotta be totally cool with it and just live my life.”

That said, she allows, “I don’t necessarily want my kids to have to deal with this.”

Challengers, the Dune franchise star’s next film, opens in theaters April 26. 

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