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Thu 11 Nov 2008Lifted voices and tears of joy complete a momentous day for African-Americans
BLACK AMERICA:Spontaneous singing and street parties erupt in the US capital, writes Mary Fitzgeraldin Washington DC
MINUTES AFTER TV screens flashed with the news that Barack Obama had made history to become the first black president of the United States, there was a brief hush in the packed Blackburn auditorium of Howard University, a Washington DC institution often described as the "black Harvard".
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