"WE have a black president!!” said Vermont Truell, nearly shouting. At that time, on Tuesday last week, Truell and 29 members of the congregation from the People’s Baptist Church in Boston immediately fell to their knees when Obama was declared the winner.

While it was a certainly a special day for Obama, America had changed. In an interview, Bernice King, the daughter of the late American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr, had simi