Obama pays tribute to Mandela's courage
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Sen. Barack Obama started a two-week tour of Africa on Sunday with a visit to Nelson Mandela's former prison island, paying tribute to the "incredible courage, resilience and hopefulness" of the anti-apartheid movement.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown praised Nelson Mandela as the greatest leader of his generation Tuesday, before the unveiling of a statue of the former South African president in London's Parliament Square.
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On the same street, barely three blocks apart, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton paid homage to a movement that paved the way for their own quests for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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On the centenary of Deng's birth, memories of his bond with a U.S. President
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Democrat Barack Obama piled on the praise last month as he stood beside Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and embraced the mayor's bid for a sixth term.
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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois  - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, citing the legacy of Abraham Lincoln, pledged on Saturday to bridge the partisan divide in Washington, end the war in Iraq and transform American politics as the first black U.S. president.
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Former President Nelson Mandela, a leading AIDS campaigner, won local and international praise Friday for disclosing that his son died of the disease still shrouded in silence and fear.
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela will watch as a statue of him is unveiled outside the Houses of Parliament in London Wednesday before dignitaries including Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama drew the loudest cheers of the eight Democratic candidates at a civil rights forum Thursday as he assailed the Bush administration's record on race relations.
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South Africa and the world must strive to uphold Nelson Mandela&#39;s legacy as a peacemaker as the anti-apartheid icon enters his dotage, former US president Bill Clinton said on Thursday.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards honored the legacy of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King on Monday and said his work paved the way for this year's precedent-shattering White House candidacies.
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The grandson of Nelson Mandela heeded the former president's call for more openness about the AIDS epidemic on Saturday, revealing that his mother had died from the virus that also killed his father.
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Barack Obama reached out to the civil rights generation Sunday on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march, saying the protesters helped pave the way for his campaign to become the first black president.
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela, surrounded by rock stars, launched a book of photographs of a major anti-AIDS concert on Thursday with a call to ordinary
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KINGSTREE, South Carolina  - Democrat Barack Obama on Thursday defended the fierce tone of his recent exchanges with presidential rival Hillary Clinton and said he was forced to fight back against her campaign's disregard for the truth.
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SELMA, Alabama  - Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined by former President Bill Clinton, courted black voters at a hallowed civil rights shrine on Sunday and said the movement's leaders had set the stage for their White House bids.
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An event steeped in civil rights symbolism offers rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama an opportunity to show unity with the black community while they spar over support from a crucial Democratic constituency.