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Culture, Sports

The Real ‘MVP’: Barack Obama Steals Drake’s Thunder at Game 2 of the NBA Finals

While Drake has made himself the talk of this year’s NBA Finals with all his trash talk on behalf of his beloved Toronto Raptors, the rapture during Sunday night’s Game 2 was about a much bigger player: Barack Obama. The beloved forever former president garnered cheers from the Toronto crowd of “MVP! MVP!” when his…

By

Dara Sharif

Published

June 3, 2019
Culture, Sports

Jeanie Buss Should Let Barack Obama Run the Los Angeles Lakers

As much as it pains me to say this as a fan of Celtics basketball (please stay, Kyrie, I’m sorry about white people), the highs of Celtics fandom aren’t their highest unless the Los Angeles Lakers are better than good. Regardless of NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s personal leanings (he looks like a Blazers fan), he’d…

By

Ibn Safir

Published

May 31, 2019
Politics

Trump Continues to Steal Black Man’s Work; Takes Credit for Veterans' Healthcare Changes Started Under Obama

When President Donald Trump isn’t busy trying to erase former President Barack Obama’s legacy, he’s taking credit for Obama’s work. According to a fact check by the Associated Press, President Trump and his Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie took credit for veterans healthcare program improvements made under President Obama because Trump is the guy…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

May 28, 2019
Beauty + Style

Sasha Obama Steps Out for Prom, Looking as Graceful as Only Michelle’s Daughters Can

They grow up so fast. Sasha Obama, youngest daughter of America’s most eligible adoptive parents Michelle and Barack, attended her high school prom on Friday, looking as glamorous as only the progeny of our forever-FLOTUS could. Sasha, rumored to be off to the University of Michigan after next month’s graduation, popped up in a few…

By

Ibn Safir

Published

May 25, 2019
Politics

Has Barack Obama Been Working Out???

We need to talk about the president. No, not the bloated Twitter troll serving happy meals to world-class athletes, I’m talking about Barack Obama, a man whose post-Oval Office glow-up has been so painfully apparent and so well-documented, it’s actually fucking rude. Take this latest example from Wednesday, when Mr. 44 stopped by the Washington…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

May 23, 2019
Entertainment, Movies

‘The Bridge to Opportunity’: Netflix Honors Music Executive Clarence Avant in New Documentary The Black Godfather

“He wasn’t there, but he was right there.” These days, when you hear the term “influencer,” one may think of perfectly placed and filtered sponsored ads on Instagram racking up hundreds of thousands of likes within minutes. Well, when you think of the original meaning of the term, one man who embodied it was Clarence…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

May 23, 2019
News

Feds Charge Ex-Fugees Pras of Campaign Finance Fraud in the 2012 US Presidential Election

Pras, aka the “other” Fugee, is facing federal charges of campaign finance fraud in the 2012 U.S. presidential election in a case involving an international fugitive financier and a Malaysian investment fund. Pras, government name Prakazrel Michel, is accused of helping Malaysian financier Jho Low, who’s been on the run from authorities for years, make…

By

Dara Sharif

Published

May 10, 2019
News

Barack Obama's Memoir Could Arrive Just in Time to Disrupt Trump's Reelection Campaign

For those eagerly anticipating Barack Obama’s post-White House memoir, you’ll have to wait just a little bit longer. USA Today reports that Publisher Penguin Random House began alerting foreign partners and others about the status of the memoir on Tuesday, and the word on the street is that the book won’t be released until 2020,…

By

Jay Connor

Published

May 9, 2019
News

Kellyanne Conway, Asked by No One, Offers Opinion on Obama After Clinton Loss in '16

Kellyanne Conway has managed to run afoul of quite a few people during her time as a member of Donald Trump’s braintrust. While using nearly every appearance on national television to muddy the waters of dialogue with half-truths, whole lies and missing hairspray, she has managed to flummox, flabbergast, and vex nearly every on-air personality…

By

Ibn Safir

Published

May 4, 2019
Politics

Trump Nominee Stephen Moore Fails Miserably at Defending Racist Public Housing Joke About Obama

If there’s a redeeming quality for racists, it’s that they’re generally crystal clear on where they stand. Their flawed logic is brazen and upfront. They do a terrible job of concealing their bigotry and xenophobia, so why even try to? They call me a “shining monkey” or a “nigger” to my face so I can…

By

Jay Connor

Published

May 1, 2019