January 19, 2012: President Obama attends New York City fundraiser at the Apollo Theater with singer Al Green.

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At New York's Apollo Theater, we went down to the stage and I played them "My Girl" on the piano.

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The Apollo Theater debate gave him an opportunity to take on Gore.

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But the scene Thursday night at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater, where the film was screened, underscored the film's fundamental point about parents' apolitical dedication to educating their kids.

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Harlem, of course, is one of the city's most history-laden neighborhoods, the center of African-American life in a neighborhood filled with churches, jazz clubs and the famous Apollo Theater.

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They'd won an Apollo Theater talent night the previous year and were working the "chitlin circuit" of black clubs when producer Bobby Taylor urged Motown to sign the group.

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