President Obama said Saturday that the country is "a better place today" than when he graduated from college more than 30 years ago, citing his historic election as "one indicator of how attitudes have changed." But gaps persist, he told Howard University's Class of 2016, citing racism and inequality in particular. In his commencement speech at one of the nation's leading historically black schools, Mr. Obama said there were no black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and few black judges when he received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1983.

May 7, 2016 ・ From Christian Science Monitor