On Sunday May 8, Barack Obama delivered a speech to graduates of Howard University in Washington, DC, a historically black university based just a few miles from the White House. Obama used the opportunity to remind the crowd how much the world has changed–not just since his term as US president, but through the 1980s, when he was a college student, and the 1960s, when the equal rights and social justice movements were born in the modern era.
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