Former President Barack Obama caught up with a young man with ... asked the nation's first black president "Is your hair like mine?" during a visit to the Oval Office in 2009.

The then-5-year-old and his older brother spoke with the then-president, and Jacob asked a single question: "Is your hair like mine?" Obama responded by bending over so Jacob could hold his ...

Jacob Philadelphia was five years old when he visited the Oval Office and asked if his hair was like mine. That pho… https://t.co/UWBPOkNzVi ...

bending over to a hesitant Jacob with Obama insisting “Touch it, dude!” White House Photographer Pete Souza Captured the moment and named the shot “Hair Like Mine” which would go viral ...

"Yeah, that's pretty much what I've got," Obama recalled Philadelphia saying.The moment was captured by White House photographer Pete Souza, and the photo, which Souza later named "Hair Like Mine ...

"Touch it, dude!" Obama said. Then-White House photographer Pete Souza quickly captured what would become an iconic shot; he named the image "Hair Like Mine" as an affirmation of the power of ...

Philadelphia, the son of then-National Security Council staffer Carlton Philadelphia, was 5 years old when he visited the Oval Office and asked Obama, “Is your hair like mine?” Obama then bent ...

Former President Barack Obama took to Instagram on Friday to congratulate Jacob Philadelphia, the boy who famously touched Obama’s head in an iconic 2009 White House photo, on his high school ...