Toi Moore sits with her Uncle Myles, who turned 98 one month before President Obama was sworn into office. Myles dying wish was to see President-elect Obama sworn into office.

January 20, 2009 marked a new day in history when we watched our first Black president take his oath to the highest office in the United States of America. January has also been a special and historical month for me as I celebrated my birthday, which is one day after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s birthday, and then watch President Barack Obama make history.