A President-elect

From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones CHICAGO -- A century and a half after the Emancipation Proclamation, five decades after Brown v. Board of Education and 40 years after the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement, a black man has been elected president of the United States. Barack Obama , a man who tells crowds that the premise of his candidacy was his faith that the American people were ready for a "new kind of politics", has achieved what many blacks in America never thought they would see during their lifetime. He won 51% of the vote and 338 electoral votes (as of 1am EST) and he did it by moving red states like Florida, Colorado and Virginia into the blue column and earning the overwhelming support of blacks, Hispanics, women, the young, first time voters and college educated whites. “I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to - it belongs to you,” Obama said. The 47-year-old junior senator from Illinois told the crowd that it had taken a long time, but “change has come to ... (link)