Family Affair Stretches Across The Ocean

Brigid Schulte, Washington Post: Local
Tue, 01/20/2009 - 10:00pm

In the hours before Barack Obama was sworn in as president, as celebrities flitted through town and the beautiful and the powerful began to party, the African cousins of the soon-to-be leader of the free world clambered into the back of a van for the long ride from their National Harbor hotel to a...

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