Barack Obama talked about race in America for 45 minutes in a nearly 5,000-word speech. That was longer than some of the annual presidential addresses, and though, yes, those speeches tend to ...

To the love of my life, our next First Lady, Michelle Obama, and to Sasha and Malia – I love you so much, and I’m so proud of all of you. Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my ...

In 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama delivered a speech that many say saved his presidential campaign. Titled "A More Perfect Union," it addressed his thoughts about how Americans experience race ...

His 2008 speech on race saved his faltering presidential ... but he was a virtual unknown, with a name — Barack Hussein Obama — that evoked the country’s enemies. He framed his biography ...

The night before, in a moment they recalled with disbelief, Barack Obama had accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the United States, then delivered a speech that brought ...

On this day in 2008, in the heat of the presidential campaign, Barack Obama gave a major speech on race. But it sounds very different now given how cultural attitudes have changed over 12 years.

In 2008, if Barack Obama’s outdoor convention speech had been moved inside, he still would have raised the roof. When he was denied the chance to speak in the elements at Bank of America stadium ...

Barack Obama in Berlin on Thursday? No. George W. Bush on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in May 2003 in an address now recalled as the "Mission Accomplished" speech. Bush never uttered the phrase ...

In 2008, she knocked on doors for him in Iowa ... Chief political correspondent Dan Balz looks at how Barack Obama's DNC speech could help Kamala Harris and try to inject a sense of hope in ...