Dreams from My Father
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) is a memoir by Barack Obama, who was elected as U.S. President in 2008. The memoir explores the events of Obama's early years in Honolulu and Chicago up until his entry into law school in 1988. Obama published the memoir in July 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for Illinois Senate. He had been elected as the first African-American president of the "Harvard Law Review" in 1990. According to "The New York Times", Obama modeled "Dreams from My Father" on Ralph Ellison's novel "Invisible Man".
Kevin Powell
Since 1993, Powell has published 11 books, including the most recent title "Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, and the Ghost of Dr. King: Blogs and Essays" (Lulu.com, May 1, 2012) – "22 raw, unfiltered blogs and essays, intent on not just exposing, but understanding, all the while building bridges of dialogue — with ourselves, and with our America." Powell's childhood memoir, "My Own Private Ghetto", and "The Kevin Powell Reader" were published in 2011 and 2012 respectively.