50 Best Moments in Black Television
1. The night of Obama’s November 2008 presidential win
Katie Couric said it best, when she said on the night of Obama’s election win in 2008: “no matter whom you voted for, you have to agree, this is an incredible milestone in the history of this country…a century and a half after the Constitution abolished slavery and guaranteed blacks the right to vote, four decades after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, voters have chosen our first African-American president.”