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Barack Obama and race in America.

Hello again, I'm Marvin Alney, and this is To the Point.

As President Obama prepares tonight's farewell speech, his approval ratings are well above many ex-presidents and much higher than Donald Trump's.

He's bound to go down in history as the first black president of a nation with a legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, and other forms of racial discrimination.

Today we'll ask activists and historians about the example he and his family have set during the past eight years,

are millions of black people better off because of his policies?

On this last of our series about the Obama presidency, what's the state of race relations after his two terms in the White House?

Today's talking point, repeal of Obamacare. Easier said than done, despite the promises of Donald Trump and other Republicans. First, the news.

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Hello again, Mormon-alny, back with To the Point. The election and re-election of the first black president led to predictions of a post-racial America.

Today we'll talk about Barack Obama's eight years in the White House and what they mean for race relations in the future.

Later on today's talking point, repeal of Obamacare was the GOP's first order of business,

but it's facing 20 million roadblocks, the people who have health insurance that didn't have it before.

Some Republican senators are expressing new misgivings about moving too fast.

First, this news update.

Alabama's Republican Senator Jeff Sessions was grilled this morning by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

He's Donald Trump's nominee to be Attorney General of the United States.

Here's California Democrat Diane Feinstein.

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