Barack Obama was elected the nation’s first black president Tuesday night in a historic triumph that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. The 47-year-old Democratic senator from Illinois ...

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama announces he will run for the office of president of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield on Feb. 10, 2007. (Milbert O. Brown/Chicago ...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced its first guest for the new lecture series "Building Bridges" will be the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. The ...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced a new lecture series called Building Bridges with its inaugural program set to feature a conversation with 44th president of the ...