We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Chicago politician Barack Obama was elected 44th president of the United States of America in 2008. The first Black man to ever hold that office, Obama served two consecutive terms in the White House.

Leaving office was a change Barack Obama could believe in. In the year after he handed the most powerful job in the world to Donald Trump, Obama's foray into post-presidential life has included globe-trotting, book-writing, speech-giving and the ...

Former President Barack Obama, speaking at the funeral services for Rev. Jesse Jackson​ Friday afternoon, credited Jackson's presidential runs in the 1980s with setting the stage for other Black leaders,

Jesse Jackson will be buried in Chicago after weeks of lying in state in locations across the United States. Jackson, who died on Feb. 17 at the age of 84 after a lengthy battle with the progressive neuromuscular disease progressive supranuclear palsy,