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January 20, 2009

What schoolchildren sounded like when Obama became president

by Philissa Cramer, at 6:59 pm

Democracy Prep Charter School students have been studying electoral politics all year. This is how it felt to be among them, and thousands of their peers, at the Harlem Armory today just after CNN announced that Barack Obama had officially became the country’s 44th president.

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