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Are You the One? Obama's Senate Record

David Mendell, Chicago Tribune reporter and the author of Obama: From Promise to Power (Amistad, 2007), and Jonathan Allen, reporter for the Congressional Quarterly's CQPolitics.com, go through the specifics of Barrack Obama's record as a U.S. Senator.

Obama: From Promise to Power is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

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Advice for Barack Obama

At yesterday's event, Embracing the Radical Martin Luther King, Jr.: Prophetic or Passé?, panelists Corey D.B. Walker, Ph.D., assistant professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, and Patricia J. Williams, J.D., James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University, responded to a question about what advice Dr. King would offer Barack Obama today.

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Election Update

WNYC Political Director Andrea Bernstein on the results of the weekend caucus and primary.

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Listener Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Listeners give their one-minute readings on any ethnic group other than their own in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Interspersed with highlights from
Embracing the Radical Martin Luther King, Jr.: Prophetic or Passé?
Hear selections from yesterday's live event at Brooklyn Museum co-hosted by April Yvonne Garrett, founder & president of Civic Frame, with panelists Eric Sean Gregory, Ph.D., assistant professor of religion at Princeton University and faculty fellow at the Edward J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University; Tricia Rose, Ph.D., professor of Africana Studies at Brown University; Corey D.B. Walker, Ph.D., assistant professor of Africana Studies at Brown University; and Patricia J. Williams, J.D., James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University -- plus poets Danny Simmons and Liza Jessie Peterson with actor Thaddeus Daniels reading key King quotations.

Watch or listen to Sunday's event

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