After spending the past few hours hanging out with Anderson Cooper and CNN, they just projected that Barack Obama will be the next president.

My thoughts went to all the Martin Luther King, Jr, footage I watched in school as a kid and all the Jim Crow photographs taken around my native South.

Although I was hoping my prediction was right for the results, what I didn’t see coming were the tears of happiness streaming down my face.

No matter who you voted for, there is no denying, that yes, things are changing.