Black Clergy Leader Picked for Inaugural Benediction
Black Clergy Leader Picked for Inaugural Benediction
NNPA Newswire Contributor Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire
The Black community at large can trust Joe Biden to fulfill his campaign commitments of ensuring that African Americans would be better positioned to prosper, says the man chosen to give the benediction at Wednesday’s presidential inauguration.
“We need a president who is after the heart of God,” the Rev. Dr. Sylvester Beaman of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington, Delaware, told NBC News. “In these terrible times, if anybody can bring healing and reconciliation to a divided country, if we give him room to work, Joe Biden can be that person.”
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Nurse Lori Marie Key sang Amazing Grace, performer Yolanda Adams sang Leonard Cohen s Hallelujah and Cardinal Wilton Gregory gave the invocation.