In 2009, there was a groundswell of excitement surrounding the inauguration of Barack Obama. While some of the excitement has waned in 2013, the significance is just as clear. “We are not the same as we were in 2009. We are much more sober,” says Molefi Kete Asante, professor of African-American studies at Temple. “The first Inauguration was historic, it was symbolic, it was soaring. I think the second one will be more pragmatic, more pointed, more intentional.”