WBEZ Archives: Barack Obama Talks To Richard Steele About ‘Dreams’

Barack Obama
File image: Former President Barack Obama after he was named head of the Harvard Law Review in 1990. In Making Obama, a new six-part podcast from WBEZ, hear how Chicago shaped Obama's political ambitions. Joe Wrinn/Harvard University / Corbis via Getty Images
Barack Obama
File image: Former President Barack Obama after he was named head of the Harvard Law Review in 1990. In Making Obama, a new six-part podcast from WBEZ, hear how Chicago shaped Obama's political ambitions. Joe Wrinn/Harvard University / Corbis via Getty Images

WBEZ Archives: Barack Obama Talks To Richard Steele About ‘Dreams’

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Originally aired November 9, 1995.

On his first known appearance on Chicago Public Radio, community organizer Barack Obama joined host Richard Steele to talk about his autobiography Dreams from My Father.

Note: There is a brief break between the two sides of the cassette.