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Rounding out the day's foreign coverage was a high-minded human-interest feature on a dozen teenage students who won an essay competition. Their prize was a trip to Johannesburg and a visit with a frail Nelson Mandela, who celebrates his 91st birthday this weekend. "Along with students from South Africa they wrote a charter committing themselves to public service," ABC's John Berman told us.
Back home the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People gave Barack Obama several standing ovations when he encouraged them to overcome persistent racial discrimination. NBC's Ron Allen reported that the President's message focused on parenting and education, "what has been called the civil rights issue of the 21st century." The key soundbite: "If you live in a poor neighborhood you will face challenges that somebody in a wealthy suburb does not have to face. That is not a reason to give up on your education and drop out of school."
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