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Together, we build this dream.(EDITOR'S LETTER)(Editorial)
WE DID IT. We elected the first Black president in our country's history, and as this issue of ColorLines reaches you in January, Barack Hussein Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. For once, Oprah's right: Hope won.
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And it won because millions of people stepped up and took to door-knocking and phone-banking and donating, and because organizers who have been working on racial justice issues for decades were prepared to mobilize their communities. And nothing, of course, could have happened without the millions of young people who hit the streets in their hometowns, on their college campuses and in swing states and who voted--like their Latino, Black, Asian and Native elders--in unprecedented numbers.
It seems fitting that as the Obama family arrives at the White House, you have in your hands an issue of ColorLines profiling the most innovative organizers, activists, artists and politicians to watch in 2009.
Editing these stories, I was inspired by people's resolve to take action and reclaim their lives in the face of difficult circumstances: Cangleska, a group that's combining domestic-violence counseling with ...
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