Morning Brief: Mile High Moment
Top Story STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images In front of a crowd of 80,000 at Denver’s Invesco Field, on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, becoming the first African-American nominated by either party. “Tears are entirely appropriate,” writes the Washington Post‘s Eugene Robinson. In ...
Top Story
Top Story
In front of a crowd of 80,000 at Denver’s Invesco Field, on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, becoming the first African-American nominated by either party. “Tears are entirely appropriate,” writes the Washington Post‘s Eugene Robinson.
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