Barack Obama
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Michelle Obama’s Becoming Verges on Selling 10 Million Copies, Could Be ‘Most Successful Memoir Ever’
There are bestsellers, and then there’s Michelle Obama. The #ForeverFirstLady has sold nearly 10 million copies of her memoir, Becoming, making it one of the most popular books of the decade.The parent company of publisher Penguin Random House, German media powerhouse Bertelsmann, announced Obama’s book sale numbers on Tuesday—along with a prediction from its CEO,…
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Why Obama Didn’t Cure White Supremacy, Explained
For all their faults, there is one thing both ultra-conservatives and super-progressive black radicals can both agree on: Barack Obama made America worse. Right-wingers will attest that Obama did not do as much for Black America as their great purveyor of equality and tolerance, Donald Trump. Aside from the fact that Obama didn’t put on…
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Trump Chided Obama About His Grades While Working to Get His High School Transcript Hidden, Thus #SummaCumLiar Was Born
In 2011, when Donald J. Trump was just a really obnoxious civilian Twitter troll, he wasn’t just pushing for then-President Barack Obama to prove that he wasn’t a Kenyan operative, he also wanted proof that the best president to ever grace the White House wasn’t a terrible student. Also in 2011, Donnie boy was pushing…
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Does President Obama Know How Twerking Works?
While at the “MBK! Rising” conference in Oakland, Calif., last week, a student asked Barack Obama how to change the narrative on how men of color are generally perceived. He answered in the Obama-branded way he usually does when he speaks to large groups of young black men—thoughtful, measured, sincere, witty, and veering towards respectability.…
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Leave Malia Obama the Hell Alone and Let Her Enjoy Life (and Facebook)
Malia Obama continues to be photographed minding her black-ass business—this time, the 20-year-old college student was seen drinking out of a bottle of rosé during a weekend spent in Miami with friends. Shudder at the thought of a bottle of rosé being in Miami, which is obviously the epicenter for wholesome good times and mild-mannered…
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NBA, FIBA, and Our Forever President Barack Obama Are Joining Forces to Launch Basketball Africa League
Considering the NBA’s global popularity and penchant for staying ahead of the curve, Saturday’s announcement that the league is officially expanding outside of North America comes as no surprise. Here’s the scoop, courtesy of ESPN: The NBA and FIBA jointly announced their plan Saturday afternoon to launch a basketball league featuring 12 club teams across…
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Chicago Was Founded by Blackness—and We're Still Its Foundation
On the northeast corner of the bridge that joins the southern stretch of Michigan Avenue to the northern portion known as “The Magnificent Mile,” there stands an elegant, life-sized bronze bust of a black man. The man? Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable, the Haitian-born fur trader who was the area’s first non-indigenous settler and is…
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Exclusive: TIDAL Celebrates Black History Month, Streaming Documentaries and Playlists Highlighting Black Luminaries
Black History Month is something we can celebrate with all of our senses, and Tidal is here to activate your sight and hearing. The subscription-based streaming service offering music, podcast and video is celebrating the blackest time of the year with a set of A&E documentaries highlighting black luminaries in our history. The 44th President:…
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2 Years of Trump Vs. 2 Years of Obama: By the Numbers
Halfway through his first term as Vladimir Putin’s Executive Assistant in Charge of U.S. Operations, Donald Trump claims he has accomplished more than any administration in history, including the highly successful Cash Money Records administration that took over for the ’99 and 2000s. We wanted to see if this was true. So we sifted through…
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Trump Lied On Obama During White House Visits, Claimed the Former President Watched Basketball All Day
President Donald Trump, the president who spent at least a year of his presidency visiting golf courses that he owns and basically bullshitting the rest of the time, had the audacity to come for arguably one the best presidents to ever do it. During these impromptu White House visits when the president basically takes anyone…
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