White House Releases Captivating Photos Of President Obama From 2015

White House Releases Most Captivating Photos Of President Barack Obama From 2015

Happy new year, BOSSIP fam!

2015 was an extraordinary year for our President, Barack Obama. He had to deal with a maddening number of public shootings, a failing healthcare system, civil rights issues and all while trying to find ways to keep Americans employed.

The POTUS shared some thoughts with us about his most eventful year via Facebook:

Happy New Year, everybody! There’s a lot I’m grateful for over this past year: Businesses that continued an all-time record streak of job creation; a health care system that covers more than 90 percent of us for the first time; a country where all our marriages are equal under the law for the first time; a world united around a prosperous, low-carbon future for the first time. But mostly, I’m grateful for you, and to be your President – because it’s your hard work, determination, and fundamental decency that led us forward through 2015, and that will keep leading us forward in 2016. Because of you, as long as I’ve had the privilege to serve in this office, I’ve never been more optimistic for a year ahead. So here’s my resolution: to do everything I can, with every day I have left, partnering with as many of you as possible, to keep making the promise of this country a reality for all of us.

White House photographer Pete Souza and his staff have released some very poignant photographs of the President that were taken over the course of last year that show the commander-in-chief in his role as leader, father, friend, gentleman and vulnerable human being.

Flip the page to see more photos of America’s first black president in his penultimate year as the most powerful man in the free world.

Images via Pete Souza/White House

“Dad, LOL! You got something on your face”

Barry and Shaq.

President Obama holding hands with his first lady, Michelle, during a speech in Selma, Alabama.

The first family is on the front line during a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

Look at the flick of the wrist!

Sweet black love.

Sommmmmmmewherrrrrre over the rainbow…

“Aw c’monnnnnn, don’t be like that!”

POTUS talks to kids in Camden, New Jersey about relationship building between community and police.

President Obama holds an umbrella for his aides.

Just because he’s the chief executive of the United States doesn’t mean he doesn’t have manners.

Don’t get it twisted, Barack Obama knows how to cut a lil’ rug.

The President has an uncanny ability to relate to people of all ages.

POTUS gives Vice President Joe Biden an emotional embrace during Beau Biden’s funeral.

The President and the presidents.

Barack Obama holds a White House employees newborn sons.

The President was charged with the emotional duty of delivering Rev. Clementa Pinckney’s eulogy after he was gunned down along with 8 others in a South Carolina church. Rev. Pinckney was also a state senator.

The White House was a myriad of colors after the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage would be deemed legal in all 50 states.

In 2015, President Obama became the first sitting President to ever visit a federal prison.