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President Biden is set to meet with leaders from a group of Black sororities and fraternities today. On Sunday, he'll deliver the commencement address at Morehouse College, a leading historically Black school in Georgia. Biden has had strong support from Black voters in the past. This time, not everyone is as enthusiastic. Recent polling shows just 38% of Black Americans feel Biden's policies have helped Black people. At Morehouse, some faculty members wrote a letter in opposition of awarding the president an honorary degree due to his policies on the war in Gaza. They ultimately voted to give Biden the degree.