Last night, Michelle and Barack hosted a poetry jam in the White House. Joshua Bennett, James Earl Jones, Eric Lewis, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Mayda Del Valle and Esperanza Spalding all performed, and students from several nearby Universities were invited. “We’re here to celebrate the power of words and music to help us appreciate beauty and also to understand pain,” President Obama told the crowd.
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