” The Story Behind”

Everyone living here in this beautiful planet earth, knew the man Governing the most powerful nation in this world, the United States of America. However, only few of us know his background, we only knew him as the first Black President of the United States. This Very Powerful man is President Barack Obama.

President Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Hanolulu Hawaii. Barack’s father, Barack Obama Sr. was born in a small village in Kenya, while his mother, Ann Dunham grew up in a small town in Kansas. His parents met at the University of Hawaii, his father was a scholar pursuing his dream in America while his mother is a student in the University. Barack’s father returned to Kenya, and President Barack Obama live with his mother in Hawaii, spend few years in Indonesia, and moved to New York, Where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983. 

After college, Barack put his dream to become a lawyer on hold and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he become a commuity organizer  with a church- based group. After realizing that to be able to really change the lives of people in the community, he needed to change the law and politics in the country. He finished his law degree in Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American President of the Harvard law Review. He returned to Chicago to practice as civil right lawyer and teach constitutional law. He run for the Illinois State Senate where he served for 8 years in 2004. becoming third African American elected to the U.S. senate.

In the Senate, he tackled the challenges of the globalized, 21st century world. His first passed law passed with Republican Tom Coburn, As a member of the Veterans Affairs Commitee, he fought to help Illinois Veterans get the disability pay they were promised.

He is most proud with his family, his wife Michelle, and his two daughters, Malia, 9, and Sasha, 6, they lived in Chicago’s south side.