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Obama just sang "Amazing Grace" in his eulogy for Charleston victim Clementa Pinckney

By Libby Nelson
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Libby Nelson is Vox's policy editor, leading coverage of how government action and inaction shape American life. Libby has more than a decade of policy journalism experience, including at Inside Higher Ed and Politico. She joined Vox in 2014.

President Barack Obama concluded Friday his eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the South Carolina state senator and pastor killed in the June 17 shooting at Charleston's historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, with a rendition of "Amazing Grace":

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