posted by Jennifer Chang
On November 5, 2008, Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States. He was the first African-American to make it into the White House. The triumph of Barack Obama was not his alone since this was shared by a new generation of people that believed change was possible through hard work and action.
Obama came from a multicultural background. He was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a black man from Kenya, while his mother, Ann Dunham, was a white woman from Hawaii. They got divorced when Obama was two, and Dunham moved the family to Jakarta with a fellow student from Indonesia. When Obama was 10, she sent him back to Hawaii, where he stayed with his grandparents in a predominantly white community. These international experiences made Obama keenly aware of racial differences at a young age. They were also part of the reason why he chose to be a civil rights attorney and eventually run for the United States.
National News : A Night To Remember
