20-Year-Old Obama Video Goes Viral

Then-Harvard Law student hosted 'Black History Minute' on TBS
By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 21, 2011 4:40 PM CST
Updated Nov 26, 2011 7:18 AM CST

Want to revisit the Barack Obama you once knew and loved... oh, 20 years ago? Yes, it's a ways back, but it's still fascinating to see the 29-year-old Harvard Law Review editor giving a short spiel on TBS. He had longer hair and, you guessed it, not a wisp of gray when he spoke about the groundbreaking African-American lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston on the "Black History Minute," USA Today reports. (For a more recent Obama video, see him discuss what he forgot during his first 2 years as president.)

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