The New York Times added a gallery showing members of Obama's staff. Some of the people on the team are quite young. Obama's youngest assistant, Eugene Kang, is 24 years old, Jon Favreau, his now-famous speechwriting director, is 27.

On the day after this year's Martin Luther King Day, Barack Obama has been inaugurated to be the first black President of the United States. I can only imagine what this means to the Afro-American community. But I am full of confidence and joy. This truly is a historic day.

From Obama's inaugural address:

For everywhere we look, there is work to be done.

Someone at Coudal found scans of today's newspaper front pages covering Obama's victory.