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DNC keynote address (“There is not a white America . . .”), Boston, July 27, 2004
First Selma speech, Brown Chapel AME Church, Selma, Alabama, March 4, 2007
Speech at Essence Festival, July 5, 2007
“Yes We Can” campaign speech, New Hampshire primary, January 8, 2008
Campaign speech, Sumter, South Carolina, January 24, 2008
“A More Perfect Union,” Philadelphia, March 18, 2008
Father’s Day speech, Apostolic Church of God, Chicago, June 15, 2008
Nomination acceptance speech, DNC, Denver, August 28, 2008
First Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C., January 20, 2009
Speech in Strasbourg, April 3, 2009
Speech before Turkish parliament, April 6, 2009
Remarks by the President at Cairo University, June 4, 2009
Speech in Ghana, July 11, 2009
Speech at Congressional Black Caucus Dinner, September 24, 2011
“If I Had a Son, He Would Look Like Trayvon” (comments made at press conference to announce nomination of Jim Yong Kim to head World Bank), March 23, 2012
White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner speech, Washington, D.C., April 29, 2012
Speech in Chicago on gun violence, February 15, 2013
Commencement address, Morehouse College, Atlanta, May, 19, 2013
Speech about Trayvon Martin after Zimmerman verdict, White House, July 19, 2013
Speech at March on Washington Fiftieth Anniversary, Washington, D.C., August 28, 2013
First statement on Ferguson (during press conference in Edgartown, on Martha’s Vineyard), August 14, 2014
Second statement on Ferguson (during press conference in Edgartown, on Martha’s Vineyard), August 18, 2014
First statement on Ferguson after announcement of non-indictment by grand jury, White House, November, 24, 2014
Second statement on Ferguson after announcement of non-indictment by grand jury, during Chicago speech, November 25, 2014
Second Selma speech, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama, March 7, 2015
White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner speech, Washington, D.C., April 25, 2015
Remarks on Freddie Gray (at joint press conference with Japanese prime minister Abe), April 28, 2015
Statement at White House on Charleston killings, Washington, D.C., June 18, 2015
Speech before U.S. Conference of Mayors (mention of Charleston), San Francisco, June 19, 2015
Speech honoring LGBT Pride Month (heckler speech), June 24, 2015
Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney, Charleston, South Carolina, June 26, 2015
Speech before the NAACP 2015 Convention on criminal justice reform, Philadelphia, July 15, 2015
Speech at Congressional Black Caucus Dinner, September 19, 2015.
Remarks at White House Criminal Justice Reform Panel (where Obama defends “Black Lives Matter” movement), October 22, 2015.
Speech to the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Chicago, Illinois, October 27, 2015.
Victory speech on becoming the 44th president of the United States, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, November 4, 2008.
“Ban the Box” speech on the Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative, Newark, New Jersey, November 2, 2015.