UpdatedTue, Jan 19, 2021 at 5:50 pm ET
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Soul singer Marvin Gaye is mobbed by admirers on the way out to his car while visiting London in 1976. (Photo by John Minihan/Evening Standard/Getty Images)
LANSING, MI — Jan. 20 is Inauguration Day in the United States as President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in as the nation's 46th president, a time he has often referred to as one to unify the nation amid an era of racial tension and concurrent health and economic crises.
In Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had a unifying message of her own designated for Wednesday, as "What's Going On" Day has been declared in honor of one of the state's many Motown music icons. The day marks the 50th anniversary of the single release of "What's Going On," one of the late Marvin Gaye's most memorable songs.