As Obama Rises, Old Guard Civil Rights Leaders Scowl

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when "black president" was synonymous with "president of black America." That was the office to which Jesse Jackson appointed himself in the 1970s -- resigned to the fact that the actual presidency was out of reach. In 2003, Chris Rock wrote and directed...
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William Jelani Cobb

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