Surely you heard the story of Ann Nixon Cooper in Obama's victory speech on Tuesday night. What you might not have heard is that her grandson graduated from UF in 1986. Ernest Hooper is now a columnist at the St. Petersburg Times but he once walked our campus as public relations student and even wrote for The Alligator (though, lets be real, who...

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On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Tonight, 45 years later, Senator Barack Obama will accept the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention.

“I Have a Dream” began by invoking the memory of Abraham Lincoln:

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow ...

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