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Jena rally moves race into presidential race

With images of 1960s-style protests being aired from a Deep South town Thursday, the Jena 6 case involving black teenagers arrested for beating a white schoolmate has tossed a political hand grenade into the race for the White House.

It is one that Democratic front-runners Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama -- whose party has traditionally depended on a civil rights agenda more than...

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