By Stacey Patton
When Barack Hussein Obama was elected our 44th president last November, I immediately began to think of a long line of heroic black ancestors whose blood, toil and sacrifices paved the way for this once “skinny kid with a funny name” to make history. In the midst of my joy, their names and faces surged to the forefront of my mind

By The Editors
Before Barack Obama became the first black and the 44th President of the United States, Richard Pryor portrayed the 40th Commander-in-Chief on his comedy show.

The Complexity of Progress

John Payton, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Now is the time.
The progress — both symbolic and real – of the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States is stunning to contemplate. We can hear our foremothers and forefathers singing. We have watched millions of Americans weigh the [...]