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Racism
Obama Can't Dodge Race Issue
Kevin Alexander Gray, September 23, 2008
When one of the biggest issues in the race is race itself, it is unclear that Obama can win. And it’s also unclear how low he will go to try, haplessly, to nullify that issue.
Racism and the Race
By Matthew Rothschild, October 2008 Issue
The race boils down to racism. All things being equal, Barack Obama would win the presidency hands down.
Birmingham, 45 years later
By Barbara Ransby, September 11, 2008
Forty-five years ago, one of the most pivotal racist attacks of the civil rights era occurred. Local members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb under the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on a Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963. The explosion killed four young girls, three of them age 14 and one of them only 11 years old.
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