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President Obama Sings Al Green’s ‘Let’s Stay Together’ at the Apollo Theater

(Image: File)
(Image: File)

President Barack Obama visited the landmark Apollo Theater in Harlem on Thursday.

Obama joined singers Al Green and India.Arie, as well as more than 1,400 supporters who spent between $100 and $5,000 per ticket for a fundraising event at the legendary theater.

The president surprised the crowd by singing a couple of lines from the soul singer’s classic hit “Let’s Stay Together.”

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Sadé Muhammad is a news intern at BlackEnterprise.com. Before Black Enterprise, she was a fashion writer for Jonesmagazine.com, blogger and research intern for Niaonline.com, and a marketing and web intern for WPVI-TV/6ABC in Philadelphia, PA. Sadé is a senior magazine journalism major and honors student at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. With a passion for empowerment and solidarity among women of color, she is developing a print and online lifestyle magazine catering to this very audience for her senior thesis. When she’s not writing, she is talking fashion, travel, and Knicks basketball.

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