Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Maryland Elects First Black, Pro-LGBTQ+ Governor
Maryland made history Tuesday when the state's voters elected Democrat Wes Moore as its first Black governor. He is only the country’s third Black governor.
Alongside Moore, Aruna Miller earned the title of lieutenant governor-elect. She is the first Indian-American woman and the first immigrant to hold statewide office in the state. “Maryland...
you showed that if we stand divided, we cannot win—but if we stand united, we cannot lose,” said Governor-Elect Moore to an assembled crowd of about 1,000 supporters in Baltimore. “When I was an Army captain and led soldiers into combat in Afghanistan, we lived by a simple principle: Leave no one behind…Real patriotism means bringing people together.
It means lifting each other up and improving each other’s lives. Patriotism means knowing that our country is great—and that if we do the work, it will be even greater.
