Newsday Celebrates Barack Obama's Historical Moment (Last Night & Tonight)

The official nomination yesterday of Barack Obama made him the “first black to win [a] major party presidential nod.”

A truly historic moment.

Tonight, as Obama stands before some 80,000 people in a football stadium here as the first black nominee of a major political party, King will loom large. It was 45 years ago today that the Baptist minister made his most famous speech, “I Have a Dream,” and tonight, Obama will make one of his own, laying out a vision of America based on change.

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