
‘The Marching Band’ Plays a Familiar Tune, But With Spirit and Social Awareness
By CARLOS SOUSA
|This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.

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DENVER — Senator Obama, standing where no black has ever stood before, swept to the Democratic presidential nomination on today as thousands of national convention delegates cheered his improbable triumph.

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|DENVER — Senator Obama, standing where no black has ever stood before, swept to the Democratic presidential nomination on today as thousands of national convention delegates cheered his improbable triumph.
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