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Posted: February 22, 2013 at 4:39 a.m.
President Barack Obama said in a radio interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton that next week’s dedication of a statue of civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks will be a “powerful moment,” adding that the Parks statue will be the first full-length one of a black woman in the U.S. Capitol building.
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