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Alice Walker: The 'Good Medicine' of Obama's Victory

Posted by Staff, Al Jazeera at 11:29 AM on November 6, 2008.


How Obama represents a shift in attitudes on race and gender in America.

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Al Jazeera's Riz Khan talks to Alice Walker, the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Color Purple and an activist on gender and race issues, in this web exclusive.

Read more of Walker's thoughts on this election from earlier this year on AlterNet.


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