The Next Generation

Washington Post by Alan Cooperman | Jan. 18, 2009 (Review)

When Deval Patrick was 6 or 7, his mother took him to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak in a park on Chicago's South Side. Patrick, now 52 and serving as the first African American governor of Massachusetts, says he does not recall a single word of King's speech. But he does remember "what it felt like" to be in that park: "Nothing but hope."

Patrick's reminiscence -- described by PBS television reporter Gwen Ifill in her perceptive new book, The ... Full Story »

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Topics: Racism, Civil Liberties, Media and Politics, Obama Administration, Black
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Posted by: Posted by Leo Romero - Jan 18, 2009 - 8:25 AM PST
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