Barack Obama was declared the winner of the U.S. presidential election, becoming the first Black president in the country's history. Crowds gathered spontaneously in cities across the U.S. and beyond — Chicago's Grant Park held roughly 240,000 people for his victory speech alone. Turnout was the highest in four decades, and the result was read around the world as a marker of how far the country's politics on race had moved since the civil rights era less than fifty years earlier, even by people who hadn't voted for him.
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