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Senator-elect Obama talked about his memoir Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, published by Three Rivers Press. It was his account of growing up in a racially mixed fam…

Live coverage of election results and election night activities was shown throughout the evening. At the end of the telecast no winner of the presidential election had been established with …

Senator-elect Obama spoke to supporters about his victory in the campaign for U.S. Senate from Illinois. Mr. Obama will replace retiring Senator Pete Fitzgerald. He defeated Republican candi…

Candidates for the U.S. Senate from Illinois took part in a debate. The candidates are seeking the position vacated by the planned retirement of Senator Fitzgerald. Mr. Obama is a State Sena…

Candidates for the U.S. Senate from Illinois took part in a debate. The candidates are seeking the position vacated by the planned retirement of Senator Fitzgerald. Mr. Obama is a State Sena…

Democratic State Senator Obama and former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination Keyes debated in the Old State Capitol for the Illinois senate seat opened by the retirement of…

Illinois Senate candidates Alan Keyes and Barack Obama took part in a student forum at WTTW-TV studios in Chicago. Each candidate had a half-hour to take questions from Chicago high school s…

On the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, MA, party leaders, former presidential candidates and others spoke about Senator John Kerry’s candidacy and building on the…

On the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, Illinois State Senator Barack Obama gave the keynote speech in which he talked about his background, the goa…

Mr. Obama talked about the U.S. economy. He said that jobs, health care, and college costs had not improved under the Bush administration.