Biden courts battleground state Black voters with two big speeches
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Atlanta and Detroit — President Biden began his address at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's "Fight for Freedom Fund" dinner in Detroit Sunday by declaring himself a "lifetime member" of the NAACP.
Several states farther south, in Atlanta, Mr. Biden began his Sunday morning commencement address at Morehouse College — a historically black liberal arts college for men — with scripture.
"Scripture says the prayers of a righteous man availeth much," the president said in Atlanta, as he went on to tell the story of Reverend Richard C. Coulter, a former slave from Atlanta who helped create Morehouse College.
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