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For Odetta and many other survivors of the civil rights movement, the election of Barack Obama as President signaled a fulfilling chapter in the struggle. As she sank toward death in New York City, Odetta had an Obama poster taped on the wall across from her bed. Hospitalized with kidney...
This from a legislative body that has raised money-wasting to an art form. It wasn't too long ago that members of Congress often mistook corporate aircraft for the Congressional Airline. "Hitching" a ride on corporate jets was such a regular event, and so abused a privilege, that eventually...
Now almost a month removed from Barack Obama’s historic election as the 44th President of the United States, I look back over the last 17-plus months of the campaign with fondness and memories.
But I never felt more connected with Sen. Obama than when my grandfather, Richard Jones, or “Gaga” as he was called by his seven grandchildren, passed away from cancer the Saturday after the election at the age of 87.
As was widely discussed by the media the day before the election, Obama lost his grandmother to cancer before she could see her grandson be elected to the highest office in the land. But I took comfort in knowing that regardless of the outcome of the election, Obama?...