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...last year’s Sears Prize for having the highest grades in his class. After the election’s results were announced, the new president said he immediately called his parents, girlfriend, and “had a glass of champagne.” An Atlanta native who studied economics and political science at Emory, Allen will spend his next year as both editor-in-chief and chief executive of the student-edited publication. “Robert is very well respected by all of his colleagues,” said outgoing president Andrew M. Crespo...
...maybe that was the metaphor right there - no one knew what was going to happen. Like a football play, Republican politics in these final days before Tuesday's vote has been a chaos of flying bodies and last-minute audibles. Romney woke up in Nashville Monday, had lunch in Atlanta, refueled in Oklahoma, and then spoke at dusk in Long Beach, California. He slept on the redeye back to West Virginia, where his schedule called for about three hours in a hotel Tuesday morning before he had to speak again to another cheering crowd. His chief rival and confirmed nemesis...
Prominent black leaders such as former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young and Georgia Congressman John Lewis, both onetime associates of Martin Luther King Jr., have endorsed Clinton. But other civil rights movement veterans in Georgia like the Rev. Joseph Lowery and local leaders like Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin have come out for Obama because they believe he shares King's inclusive beliefs. It is a contentious divide. Young, for his part, has said Obama is too young to be President and should wait until 2016 to run, while Lowery has said that blacks who doubt Obama could do so because...
...while the division among the veterans is dramatic, the generational divide is even more stark. Just ask William Jelani Cobb, an associate professor of history at Spelman College in Atlanta. Shortly after Obama's resounding victory in the South Carolina primary, he asked his African-American history class what it thought about the presidential election. Of the 26 students in his class, he said 25 supported Obama and one was undecided. "When I pointed out what the Clintons had done vis-a-vis black issues, one of my students said 'Oh, you do something nice for us and then your...
...days before the South Carolina primary, Obama linked arms with Rev. Raphael G. Warnock - a representative of the younger cohort of African-American community leaders - and sang, "We Shall Overcome" before parishioners at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church. Warnock was careful not to issue an endorsement; nevertheless, he introduced Obama to congregants in a manner fit for a king: "Giants have stood here so we don't take this pulpit lightly, but we invited this brother because he's committed and brilliant," Warnock said. "We had to fight, bleed and die just to be able to vote," Warnock added...