Both of us had chosen Simmie Knox to paint our portraits: we liked Knox's lifelike style, and he would be the first African-American portraitist to have his work hang in the White House.
The "blues" is a style of music derived from southern African-American secular songs.
“蓝调(blues)”是一种音乐风格，来自南部非洲裔美国人的世俗歌曲。
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The article suggests the goal was to spread "Orwellian-style trauma and project Yemen, as well as the African continent, [as] the brand-new focus of the American so-called 'war on terror.'"