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January 25, 2013

(The Root) — On Saturday, Jan. 19, black luminaries filed into the Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., for The Root’s second Inaugural Ball.

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More than 1,100 guests were in attendance as champagne flowed, DJs spinned and the band played to honor President Obama’s second swearing-in. Actors, activists, politicians and other notables graced our trademark green carpet — including The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr., comedian Chris Tucker and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder — to share their thoughts on President Obama’s legacy.

“Four years from now, and 50 years from now, people will think he was a great president,” Holder said.

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