Convocation: Barack Obama

Black History Month Convocation address by Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Illinois state senator, civil rights attorney, author, lecturer, community development specialist, and first African-American president of Harvard Law Review. Obama currently works as a civil rights attorney in Chicago specializing in voting rights, employment discrimination, and fair housing litigation. He’s also a civil rights professor at the University of Chicago. Obama is the author of Dreams of My Father, a Story of Race and Inheritance. The title of his address is “Politics, Race, and the Common Good.”