"Black history is American history," Biden says as he launches fresh voter appeal
Source: Reuters
May 17, 2024 12:28 PM EDT Updated an hour ago
WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden launched a fresh bid to bolster support from African-American voters on Friday, looking to seal up cracks in the Democratic coalition that carried him to victory over Republican Donald Trump in 2020.
Biden visited the popular African-American museum in downtown Washington and greeted his audience by declaring, "Black history is American history." He and Vice President Kamala Harris later will meet privately at the White House with the Divine Nine, a group of historically Black sororities and fraternities.
Biden met on Thursday with families who had relatives involved in the Supreme Court's landmark May 17, 1954, Brown v. Board of Education ruling 70 years ago that led to the desegregation of schools. "We learn better when we learn together," Biden said at the museum.
All this is leading up to Biden's commencement speech on Sunday at Morehouse College in Atlanta, a historically Black school that was the alma mater of slain civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
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