What Do Obama, Trump, and Michael Jordan All Have in Common?

Benin Bryant
17 min readNov 13, 2020

A Political Journey From Coast to Coast.

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About 12 years ago, on one crisp evening in The Windy City, a Chicagoan gave a speech to a crowd of more than 200,000 adoring onlookers. They had all nestled into Chicago’s Grant Park, a sprawling green expanse buttressed against Lake Michigan, home to some of the city’s finest adornments. The park, named in honor of…

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Benin Bryant

Engineer by trade, writer by passion. Reachable at twitter @beninbf, or beninbf@gmail.com