Posts Tagged ‘barack obama

January 21, 2009 · Posted in: Image Galleries, In the News

Hopeful America

OVER a million Americans witnessed the historic January 20 inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th and first African-American president of the United States. Filipino social documentary photographer Rick Rocamora, a regular PCIJ contributor,...

January 18, 2009 · Posted in: Image Galleries

Washington prepares for Obama

BELOW is a photo contribution of U.S.-based Filipino social documentary photographer Rick Rocamora, as well as his personal reflections on the much anticipated inaugural ceremony of Barack Hussein Obama on January 20 as the first African-American...

December 19, 2008 · Posted in: Podcasts

Filipinos in Barack’s America

THIS week, the PCIJ Channel features an interview with U.S.-based Filipino journalist Benjamin Pimentel, author of Pareng Barack: Filipinos in Obama’s America. Published by Anvil, the book talks about Barack Obama’s march to the American presidency...

November 8, 2008 · Posted in: Cross Border, Image Galleries, In the News

Woman power

AFRICAN-American, Latino and youth votes have been largely credited for helping propel Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States. Women voters, however, also figured prominently in Obama's victory as 56 percent of women who voted in the November...

PCIJ contributor Joseph Israel Laban shares this personal essay in the wake of the historic election victory the other day of Democrat Barack Obama, making the freshman senator of Illinois, Chicago the first African American president of the United...