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Obama Heads To The Mountaintop
Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — [image] On this day, the 45th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, Barack Obama assured his place in history as the first African American presidential nominee of a major political party. Obama's acceptance speech was delivered at Mile High Stadium. The doors were thrown open seven hours before he was scheduled to appear. The lines snaked for blocks, across railroad tracks and under a bridge. After a 45-minute wait for the light rail, it took me nearly an hour to get into the stadium. The neoclassical stage at the 50-yard line stood out like a holding penalty. To me, it evoked the Lincoln ...