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3 days ago · Barack Obama was the first African American president of the United States (2009–17). He oversaw the recovery of the U.S. economy (from the Great Recession of 2008–09 ) and the enactment of landmark health care reform (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ).
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- Politics and Ascent to The Presidency
On August 27 Obama became the first African American to be...
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Barack Obama, in full Barack Hussein Obama II, (born Aug. 4,...
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Barack Obama served as the 44th president of the United...
- President of The United States
The term presidency of the United States of America refers...
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political science, the systematic study of governance by the...
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The smaller membership of the Senate permits more extended...
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During its first two centuries the college was gradually...
- Life After The Presidency
Barack Obama - Post-Presidency, Activism, Legacy: Having...
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Occidental College, Private liberal-arts college in Los...
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1 day ago · Sidney Poitier KBE (/ ˈ p w ɑː t j eɪ / PWAH-tyay; February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
3 days ago · W.E.B. Du Bois’s notable works include The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899), the first case study of a Black community in the United States; a collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), a landmark of African American literature; Black Reconstruction (1935); and the autobiography Dusk of Dawn (1940).
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3 days ago · Her screenplay, Georgia, Georgia (1972), was the first original script by a Black woman to be produced, and she was the first African American woman to direct a major motion picture, Down in the Delta, in 1998.
5 days ago · Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade and for ...
5 days ago · African Americans. holiday. December. On the Web: ScholarWorks at Western Michigan University - Kwanzaa: A holiday of Principles (May 27, 2024) (Show more) Top Questions. What is Kwanzaa? Who typically observes Kwanzaa? How is Kwanzaa celebrated? How was Kwanzaa popularized? Is Kwanzaa a religious holiday?
2 days ago · Dwight was the first Black man selected for an American astronaut-training program in 1962. He had spent years at Edwards Air Force Base in California doing zero-gravity training, running test ...
