On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States. The Democratic first-term U.S. senator from Illinois who was the son of a White mother from Kansas and a Kenyan father would go on to mark his place in history as the nation’s first Black commander-in-chief. Obama’s election became […] The post On This Day: Barack Obama Is Elected America’s First Black President appeared first on EBONY.