It’s like Obama set off a serious trend in national black love! Meet the newly crowned Miss France 2009, Chloe Mortaud. She’s beautiful!

Everyone’s trying to make it to DC for this year’s Inaugural Ball, but many have become sorely disappointed upon finding out how expensive tickets and traveling fees actually are. So VA businessman Earl Stafford decided to help out hundreds of needy Obama fans – by paying their way to Inauguration 2008!

Oprah Winfrey has been one of Barack Obama’s biggest celebrity supporters. So why WOULDN’T she take her show to Washington, DC for inauguration?!

President-elect Barack Obama is Ebony magazine’s Person of The Year. The magazine booked their first interview and photo shoot since his Nov. 4 historic victory. Look for this collector’s edition on newstands December 9th.

President-elect Barack Obama is reportedly buying his First Lady Michelle Obama a $30,000 ring as a thank you for her support during the election. The Harmony ring is made of rhodium – the world’s most expensive metal -and encrusted with diamonds.

President-elect Barack Obama and Future First Lady Michelle Obama will split the January cover of Essence magazine. The 56-page tribute features images, thoughts and dreams, with essays and commentary from Maya Angelou, Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, Gwen Ifill and other notable African-Americans.

President-elect Barack Obama and wife Michelle took their daughters to work at a Chicago food bank over the Thanksgiving holiday. The Obamas’ wanted to show the girls the meaning of the holiday, especially with so many people struggling.

President-elect Barack Obama has chosen his foreign policy adviser, Susan E. Rice, to be ambassador to the United Nations, picking an advocate of “dramatic action” against genocide as he rounds out his national security team, Democrats close to the transition said Sunday.

President-elect Obama and his wife Michelle Obama, have decided on sending their daughters Malia and Sasha to private school.

The future First Family is all about fitness. President-elect Barack Obama and his future First Lady like to start their day with a workout, sometimes as early as 4:30AM.

President-elect Barack Obama’s daughters, Malia, 10 and Sasha, 7, checked out their new digs. Tagging along with their mother, Michelle, and grandmother, the future first kids toured the White House with Bush twins Jenna and Barbara. The girls were also in Washington to check out local schools.

Ann Nixon Cooper, the 106-year-old black voter picked out by Barack Obama as embodying the spirit of his election victory has her own photo gallery on essencemag.com