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"It never gets any easier," the 48-year-old pediatrician said, wiping away tears on her fourth trip to Ghana's Cape Coast Castle in two decades. "It feels the same as when I first visited—painful, incomprehensible."
On Saturday, Barack Obama and his family will follow in the footsteps of countless African-Americans who have tried to reconnect with their past on these shores. Though Obama was not descended from slaves—his father was Kenyan—he will carry the legacy of the African-American experience with him as America's first black president.
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Jul 11th, 2009 - MSNBC
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Thursday traced his historic rise to power to the vigor and valor of black civil-rights leaders, telling the NAACP that the sacrifice of others "began the journey that has led me here.
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Jul 11th, 2009 - CBS News
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Jul 11th, 2009 - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says unemployment is likely to tick up for several months as the economy recovers from its deepest downturn in decades. The president...
Obama sees Africa's dark past at slave fortress
Jul 11th, 2009 - Reuters
CAPE COAST, Ghana (Reuters) - After outlining his bright hopes for Africa's future, President Barack Obama got a glimpse on Saturday into one of the darkest chapters of its past -- the transatlantic slave trade. Obama...
Obama sees Africa's dark past at slavery monument
Jul 11th, 2009 - Reuters
CAPE COAST, Ghana (Reuters) - After outlining his bright hopes for Africa's future, U.S. President Barack Obama got a glimpse on Saturday into one of the darkest chapters of its past -- the transatlantic slave trade. Obama...
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