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• "It's not bad for a 35-year-old!" - After beating Danish boxer Mikkel Kessler in Cardiff in a fight generally regarded as securing his place in the pantheon of great post-war fighters, The Independent, Nov. 4, 2007 Read TIME's 2-Min. Bio of Joshua DuBois: Obama...
• During Obama's presidential bid, DuBois rose to become national director of religious affairs, leading a team of up to eight campaign staffers and hundreds of volunteers
Young people put Barack Obama in the White House, and the President hasn't been shy about bringing them with him. So it wasn't a surprise that Obama - who entrusted 27-year-old speechwriter Jon Favreau with crafting the soaring oratory that became his campaign's hallmark - would tap...
• Born in Bar Harbor, Me. and raised in Nashville, Tenn. and Xenia, Ohio. DuBois' stepfather is a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; his grandmother took part in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins
• As a 17-year-old freshman at Boston University, DuBois - armed with a placard inscribed with the words "NO MORE" - stood before a Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Boston for 41 hours as a way to commemorate the 41 bullets New York City policemen used to kill unarmed...