hmmm...and guess who else arrived in Hawaii in 1959? Perhaps those missing Obama Sr years...have something to do with Buffalo?
http://www.buffaloah.com/h/niag.html
Excerpt:
Dubbed the ìNiagara Movementî because of its place of origin, the group was composed of 59 leading African American intellectuals, writers, newspapermen and activists, 29 of whom attended the organizational meeting in Buffalo.
The moving spirit of the group was W. E. B. Du Bois. Du Bois (1868-1963), the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, was a professor at Atlanta University and the leading black intellectual of his time...
Incredible! The Niagara Movement was the fore-runner of the NAACP.
Joshua DuBois, head of the White House Office for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. While I don’t see a relationship, it is interesting. Neighborhood Partnerships sounds a lot like community organizing.