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Black Long Islanders see history in Obama's candidacy
For many black Long Islanders, America's troubled racial past long made the notion that their country might one day elect a black man as president seem the stuff of fantasy.
But the historic candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama has left many feeling that America may be on the verge of turning a page.
It is that way for the Rev. Cornelius Fulford, 60, who in 1969 moved to eastern Long Island...
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