Barack Obama - The first African American president

In 2008 the United States of America elected Barack Obama to be president.

He is the first African American to be elected president and this shows how much the United States has evolved since 1865.

You can read more about Obama here


But even with an African American as its leader the USA remains very racist - there is still enormous discrimination against African Americans and a new form of racism is emerging against hispanics (people from mexico and latin america) and muslims. The election of Donald Trump as the next President on a clearly racist platform shows this very clearly.
You can read more about Donald Trump here.