“As I was reflecting last weekend, my friend Elena Park, an executive producer for Stanford Live, sent me a YouTube video â an incredible performance the other day by the singer Meklit and the Kronos Quartet of ‘The President Sang Amazing Grace.’ The song was written by Zoe Mulford about the 2015 murder of nine people at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., by a white supremacist. It was debuted by Mulford in 2017, telling in song how a different president, Barack Obama, came down to that church for a memorial service and during his eulogy for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney sang ‘Amazing Grace,’ one of the most moving and healing moments of his presidency.”