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As the first candidate to achieve a majority of delegates in the Democratic primaries for president and raise unparalleled amounts of money, Sen. Barack Obama–if he secures the Democratic presidential...

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Laquan McDonald and What My Dying Father Told Me About the Chicago Police

My daddy was born and raised near Money, Mississippi, and was a teenager himself in that tiny town the night 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered by white racists. My dad grew up black in a social structure steeped in white supremacy, yet his encounters with the Chicago Police Department convinced him that cops here were worse than any Jim Crow-loving, Negro-hating, Southern vigilante he'd ever seen.

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