Experts weigh in on the state of black America under Barack Obama presidency

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“It hasn’t turned out as well as some folks thought for black people”:

Black Americans were filled with hope and high expectations when Barack Obama was elected to the highest office in the country, according to Columbia University professor of political science, Fredrick C. Harris who said, “He was going to be somehow the savior who would come in to save the black community.”

Now, eight years later, we asked experts to weigh in on the state of black America.

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