Obama remembers Martin Luther King, Jr.

Published: 20 January 2009 y., Tuesday
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A day before he's sworn in as President, U.S. president-elect Barack Obama spent Martin Luther King, Jr. Day urging Americans to help out with some type of community service. He spent the morning at a Washington, DC homeless shelter for teenagers.

 

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