BostonGlobe.com Political Headlines - January 21, 2013

• Obama takes oath, with gala to follow today: Washington bureau reporter Matt Viser and correspondent David Uberti report on President Obama's second term and the pomp, parade and evening balls slated for today.

• A 'dream' trip and visit with President Obama: Second-grade students from Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School in Roxbury reflect on their experience last year spending time with the President as they recited Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech. Akilah Johnson reports.

• Action on guns and immigration needed: These issues didn't have a significant place in Obama's first-term agenda, but national security columnist Juliette Kayyem explains why they need to be at the forefront in his second term.

• Civil rights history, remastered for digital age: Columnist Adrian Walker writes about the process of remastering his trilogy "America in the King Years" to make the books, more than 800 pages each, more accessible.