Share 'Barack obama becomes the first african american presidential nominee in us history'

In 2004, I sat in a ballroom in Chicago filled with members of the US Hispanic Leadership Institute for a luncheon with a little known Illinois state senator named Barack Obama. I had no idea who he was at the time (I was visiting from my home in Los Angeles), so I turned to the person sitting next to me, who happened to be one of the conference organizers. A Chicago native, she was all exci...