Lost 1995 Obama interview surfaces

Doug Ross Journal In 1995, The Crisis magazine interviewed Barack Obama for a two-page feature article on growing up as a mixed-race American.

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The magazine was founded by the legendary W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP. In the nineties, it focused on civil rights and politics as it approached a century of publication. In 1995, author Eric Clark interviewed the young Obama, who was labeled an author (he had just published Dreams from my Father) and a civil-rights lawyer. He had recently achieved some notoriety through his election to the post of President of Harvard Law Review. More plus full interview from Magazine