In 1999, his 1st daughter Malia was born. His mother and father, Ann Dunham, a white Kansas native and daughter of a World War II veteran, and his father, a black Kenyan and son of a goat herder, met though enrolled at the University of Hawaii. At Harvard, Obama grew to become the initially black president of the Harvard Law Review, overseeing a regular, college student-operate journal that publishes about 2,000 webpages for every issue.