“Probably no new music has had as profound and powerful an impression in shaping America’s musical score as Black songs,” Biden reported in the proclamation issued Tuesday.
“For generations, Black new music has conveyed the hopes and struggles of a resilient individuals — spirituals mourning the unique sin of slavery and later on heralding independence from bondage, difficult truths instructed as a result of jazz and the appears of Motown during the civil legal rights movement, and hip-hop and rhythm and blues that remind us of the function that continue to lies in advance,” the President added.
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