But Obama is not only a black man, he is also a national politician.
Many people were saying, they actually elected a black man president of the United States?
The election of a black man to the White House is a huge triumph.
In Hawaii as a young man, he chose to grow into his identity as a black man.
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So, cast as a black man in the war movie, Lazarus decides to dye his skin surgically.
He cited the case of James Byrd, a black man who was dragged to death in Texas.
It is not the first time a black man on screen has risen to power amidst calamity.
Witnesses described the driver as a black man aged between 18 and 21.
And I wanted to have a black man that I knew and recognized.
When I read the letter, he had made a statement that a white woman and a black man together ...
People who say that a Mormon cannot become president used to say that a black man could not become president.
At Phillips, an untitled Basquiat charcoal and crayon work on paper shows a black man, Christ-like beneath a crown of thorns.
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Is it racial profiling for a black man to avoid going into a biker bar at night in a small rural town?
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The illustration on the cover showed a black man in a gleaming top hat, white gloves, mouth open in the act of singing.
The first person to die in the Revolutionary War is buried not far from here, a black man from Barbados, named Crispus Attucks.
It was an unwelcome allegation for a department that overhauled itself after the notorious police beating in 1991 of a black man, Rodney King.
Somewhere out West, there is an 80-year-old black woman who never thought she'd see the day when a black man would be elected president.
It was there that he met the former British High Commissioner to Swaziland, John Doble, who asked Vilane why a black man had never climbed Everest.
One of the suspects seen running from crime is described as a black man while the other is light-skinned, possibly of Asian or Turkish appearance, police said.
And is it surprising to people in the Middle East that a black man could be president of what is arguably still the most powerful nation on earth?
In a predominantly black country, which Nigeria is, the election of a black man, one would think it doesn't have quite so much meaning but evidently it does.
Our team was composed of a white guy, a Latina, a black woman and a black man bound by a single commitment: to send kids to college.
Equipped with a secret camera, and calling himself Kwami Ogonno, he went to predominantly white areas to see how a black man with a foreign accent is treated.
Two mixed-race judges had previously been members of the court, but Mr Barbosa said he was the first one who could be "widely recognised as a black man".
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Obama's three new nominees, two white women and a black man, contribute to a White House commitment to bring diversity to the federal bench historically dominated by white men.
In 1969, in an interview with the New York Times, he stated that his biggest accomplishment was that "people looked at me like a man, not a black man".
Not everyone is convinced of America's willingness to elect a black man to the White House, but elections expert David Bositis thinks Mr Obama can overcome any lingering prejudice.
If you are a college-educated black woman with a good job and you wish to marry a black man who is your socioeconomic equal, the odds are not good.
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Limned with equal sensitivity are two chalk drawings by Paolo Veronese, "Study of a Black Youth Eating" (c. 1580) and "Study of the Head of a Black Man" (c.1573).
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