Stephanie Capparell

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Is Obama the Last in a Long Line of Firsts?

By Mark Reynolds

It doesn’t even matter if your achievement isn’t something a lot of people might want to emulate; you’ll go to your grave eulogized as the “first black (fill-in-the-blank)”, and every Black History Month someone will remember your name. [12 April 2007]

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