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Obama gives Ebony magazine post-election interview

 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama gave his first post-election interview on Thursday to Ebony magazine, one of the oldest black-owned publications in the United States and based in his hometown of Chicago. (link)

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