Consider the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, where a largely unknown state senator from Illinois spoke just 2,297 words in a 17-minute speech that turned him into a national icon.

Paris Alston: This is GBH’s Morning Edition. Today marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, which took place here in Boston. GBH political reporter Adam ...

Celebrities -- including Ben Affleck, Wyclef Jean, Alec Baldwin and Carole King -- have been spotted at events in and around the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. Use the naviga ...

In 2004, Barack Obama delivered the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, during which he discussed the unlikely path he followed in his life, which made him into the person that ...

Those who were on the floor in Boston in 2004 speak about the moment with ... we go high” speech at the 2016 Democratic convention, seemed to be an inflection point. But it might also be said ...

A decade and a half before that, Barack Obama announced himself as a major figure by declaring at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, “There’s not a liberal America and a conservative ...

Barack and Michelle Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention ... the political scene with his 2004 DNC speech, he delivered its bookend. “This convention has always been pretty ...