President-Elect Barack Obama has sat down with Ebony Magazine for his first print interview since becoming the first African-American elected President of the United States.

“I’m very humbled by the fact that I stand on the shoulders of all the people who made these incredible contributions to lift this country up,” Obama tells the magazine.

Catch the full interview with our nation’s next Commander-in-Chief in Ebony’s January 2009 issue, on newsstands Tuesday, December 9.