Reported by Timothy Egan, 01/16/2016, The New York Times
Barack Obama, then a presidential candidate, at a campaign rally in Chester, Pa., in 2008.Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times
I still hold onto a couple of magazine covers and newspaper front pages, despite their preservation in the digital afterlife, marking the moment when a nation that had embraced African-American slavery chose a black man to be its president.
Barack Obama’s election in 2008 swept “away the last racial barrier in American politics with ease,” The New York Times reported. The New Yorker, with its cover of a glowing Lincoln Memorial, heralded “the resurgence of America’s ability to astonish and inspire.” They sensed “the beginning of a new era.”
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