Torrey Burden remembers the exact moment when then President-elect Barack Obama stepped onto the confetti-covered stage at Chicago’s Grant Park, smiling confidently with his family and slipping easily into the role of the nation’s first Black commander in chief.
The moment was decades removed from marches of the civil rights movement and the sting of Jim Crow felt by older generations. Instead, watching the cheering crowds in 2008, the 44-year-old Melbourne resident personally felt a...