New chapter in America’s painful racial history

With police killings of black people still at disproportionately high levels, Obama’s endorsement of Clinton encapsulates the progress in race relations even as they remain riven by tensions, writes Bette Browne

AN EXTRAORDINARY moment in America’s racial history played out in the hours before Hillary Clinton officially became the Democratic nominee in the White House race.

It was the moment when a black president stepped onto the convention stage to help a white woman realise her political ambitions and stake her place in history.