Fifteen years ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as America’s first Black president
Fifteen years ago today, the United States of America achieved something that it had not done in its more than 230-year history: a Black president was sworn into office. Former President Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother, took the oath of office on January 20, 2009 to become the 44th U.S. commander in chief and forever change the course of American politics. The skies were clear on that Tuesday and temperature just below freezing […]