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Reuters
Reuters
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By Michelle Nichols

Poet Amanda Gorman, K-pop's Blackpink push global goals at U.N.

Amanda Gorman delivers a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2021. Erin Schaff/Pool via REUTERS

South Korean pop band Blackpink and American poet Amanda Gorman took to the United Nations stage on Monday to urge action on climate change and other global goals that include achieving gender equality and ending hunger and poverty.

Gorman read a new poem in the U.N. General Assembly chamber in New York, a day before world leaders start making annual speeches to the 193-member body.

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