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Photo Gallery: Portraits of the 16 who shared their stories
E-mail this GalleryThe Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed for people to be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. And now, decades after the cotton fields and prayer meetings, marches and freedom rides, we find ourselves in a transcendent moment, standing between the pain of the past and the promise of the future, with audacious hope riding on the shoulders of America's first African-American president. We asked: “What does Barack Obama’s historic election mean to you?”