Obama named Ebony's Person of the Year

Ebony magazine has announced it has selected U.S. President-elect Barack Obama as its first Person of the Year.

We won because the American people mobilized for change,'' the Chicago Tribune quoted Obama, who will be the nation's first black president, as telling Ebony last month in the first interview he gave after the election. It really was people at a grassroots level who carried our campaign financially, who carried it organizationally, and we don't want that to dissipate.''

The interview and Obama's official naming as Person of the Year by the national magazine geared to African-Americans are to appear in the January issue, slated to go on sale next week, the Tribune noted.