Barack Obama’s inauguration prompted the shedding of many tears—most by Americans ecstatic at seeing a day they never thought would come, and some, no doubt, by the relative few who feared the day a black man would arrive as master of the White House. Bright, talented, graceful, and supremely self-confident, Obama has vindicated all the efforts of King, Randolph, Rustin, Ma (...)
The Last Word
A New Day
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