Washington : Barack Obama was poised to become the United States' first African-American president on Tuesday, bringing a message of hope to a nation battered by recession, weary of war and hungry for change after eight years of George W. Bush in the White House.
Obama's inauguration is a milestone once unthinkable in a nation that has struggled with racial issues since its founding and where segregation was practiced in many Southern states just decades ago. It will take place outside the U.S. Capitol, which slaves helped build. Obama will take his oath on the same Bible used by Abraham Lincoln, whose Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery.
-RAJIMOL
Obama's inauguration is a milestone once unthinkable in a nation that has struggled with racial issues since its founding and where segregation was practiced in many Southern states just decades ago. It will take place outside the U.S. Capitol, which slaves helped build. Obama will take his oath on the same Bible used by Abraham Lincoln, whose Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery.
-RAJIMOL
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