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Barack Obama was the first African American and first biracial president of the United States, being elected in the 2008 election and re-elected in the 2012 election. Kamala Harris became the first African-American vice president of the United States of America, being elected in the 2020 election alongside President Joe Biden. She is also the ...
First African-American president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: The Most Reverend Wilton Daniel Gregory (see also: 2020) First African-American president of the Unitarian Universalist Association: Rev. William G. Sinkford; First African-American president of an Ivy League university: Ruth J. Simmons at Brown University
The claim: John Hanson was the first Black president of the United States. In the past few years, multiple social media posts have declared John Hanson, not Barack Obama, as the first Black ...
President Barack Obama, who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, had an African father and an American mother of mostly European ancestry. [1] [2] His father, Barack Obama Sr. (1936–1982), [3] was a Luo Kenyan [4] from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Kenya. [5]
Obama became the first Black president in American history after winning the 2008 election race against John McCain. While in office, he earned a Nobel Peace Prize, worked to limit climate change ...
A U.S. presidential library typically stands as a marker of time for a commander and chief and his years of The post Obama, America’s first Black president, puts the spotlight on others with ...
First president to appoint a Muslim American as an Article III judge (Zahid Quraishi). [578] First president to appoint a female and Asian American United States Trade Representative (Katherine Tai). [574] First president to appoint a Black woman and former federal public defender to the Supreme Court (Ketanji Brown Jackson). [579] [580]
The first black Baptist congregations are organized in the American South: Silver Bluff Baptist Church in South Carolina, and First African Baptist Church near Petersburg, Virginia. [citation needed] 1775. April 14 – The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage holds four meetings.