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President Joe Biden has offered his most direct recognition of the anguish American college students are feeling over the Israel-Hamas war. Biden said during a commencement address Sunday at historically Black Morehouse College in Atlanta that he has heard the students' voice of protest and that scenes from the conflict in Gaza break his heart, too. The speech, and a separate he's giving later Sunday in Detroit, are part of a burst of outreach to Black constituents by the president. Black support for Biden has softened since he was elected in 2020. There were scattered demonstrations over the war but the Morehouse ceremony was not disrupted. Read moreBiden tells Morehouse graduates that scenes in Gaza from the Israel-Hamas war break his heart, too