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1. Barack Obama lays claim to the Democratic Party’s nomination for President. 2,118 delegates to the convention in Denver this summer are required to clinch the nomination and Obama has 2,151, according to the Associated Press.
2. Except nobody seems to have told Hillary Clinton that. On the day when she won the South Dakota primary, she spoke to a cheering crowd in Manhattan, was introduced as “the next President of the United States of America, and listened to her crowd chant “Denver, Denver”, begging her to continue her campaign to try and woo superdelegates away from Obama.
3. The Washington Post describes the rally in Minnesota where Obama declared his claim.
4. And the Guardian was at Clinton’s not-concession speech.
5. The Nation parses the details of the speeches, noting that if Clinton did not “concede”, Obama sometimes sounded as if his speech were “placing his rival’s name in nomination.”
6. Bloomberg sums up the strategic errors of the Clinton campaign, noting that the essential failure was to reproduce successful templates of the past that relied on building an air of inevitability when what the prevailing mood in the country desired was change.
7. Meanwhile, the New York Times says that Barack Obama is strikingly calm even now. But then he rarely does: “Told in February that he had won the caucuses in Maine, an overwhelmingly white state that he had expected to lose, he nodded, mumbled “That’s great,” and turned back to a phone call.”
8. A new study reported by RadioInk has examined online behavior, and noted some differences along ethnic lines. 
9. ABC notes the recent tendency in Hollywood to have white actors play roles based on incidents that actually involved protagonists from different races.
10. NPR brings together two neighbours, African-American and white, to share perspectives on how gentrification has affected their neighbourhood in Portland, Oregon.