Hope aside, he faces nation's original sin

PHILADELPHIA - After a year of speaking of racial reconciliation in mostly hopeful, uplifting terms, Barack Obama yesterday offered a fuller, deeper, and more personal testament to the nation's tormented racial history and how to begin to overcome it. (Full article: 758 words)

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