Who was the first African American to become the President of the Harvard Law review?

In 1991 Barack Obama was the first African American to be elected President of the Harvard Law Review. The publication comes from a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. The Law Review comes out monthly from November through June and has roughly 2,500 pages per volume. The organization is formally independent of the Harvard Law School.

The law journal specifically publishes articles written by law professors, judges, and other legal professionals. It may also publish shorter pieces written by students, called “notes” or “comments”.

Barack Obama, (Barack Hussein Obama II) was born in August 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the 44th President of the United States (2009–17) and was the first African American to hold the office. Before winning the presidency, Obama represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate (2005–08). He was the third African American to be elected to that body since the end of Reconstruction in 1877. In 2009, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.

President Obama is best remembered for signing into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on March 23, 2010. It is now normally called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or Obamacare, a law designed to extend health coverage and to protect consumers from insurance company tactics that might drive up patient costs or restrict health care.