Barack Obama
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Word to the Unwise: Black Voters Will Reject Any 2020 Democratic Candidate Who Trashes Obama to Appease the Far Left
Some people don’t learn, even after losing the hard way in 2016. Despite not being able to convince black voters that Sen. Bernie Sanders was the ideal, perfect, pure-as-driven-snow candidate during the 2016 Democratic primaries, despite arguing that black people were essentially voting against their own interests because we weren’t choosing the senator from Vermont…
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After Conquering Politics, Barack Obama Inches One Step Closer to Lucrative Rap Career with Hamilton Feature
While I impatiently wait for “Hamilton” tickets to someday cost less than my rent, Christmas came early for those of us dying for a hot 16 from our forever president Barack Obama. Okay, not quite a hot 16, but dammit he’s featured on the latest release from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s HamilDrop series—so a posse cut with…
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Y’all’s Triflin’-Ass President Can’t Even Sit Up Straight During a Funeral
Look at this shiftless and triflin’ fuck. Sitting in the front row of a funeral, with the world’s attention on him—hundreds of millions of eyes, perhaps—and he looks like a 6th grader whose parents dragged him to Les Miserables on ice. He’s the leader of the free world (shit), and he couldn’t even bother to…
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Black America's Forever President Barack Obama Volunteers at Chicago Food Bank
While the punk-ass president continues to desecrate the highest office in the land, black America’s forever president and current president of Wakanda, Barack Obama, continues to make us miss him after he made a surprise visit to volunteer at the Greater Chicago Food Depository. According to ABC 7 Chicago, arguably the best president to step…
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Dear White People: Please Get the Fuck Out of Michelle Obama’s Pockets
There is, I believe, a conversation that could be had about an unease we (black people) might have with the Obamas’ post-White House relationship with money. And not just with money as a tangible object, but in surrounding themselves with it and being ensconced in markers and signifiers of it. The word “Obama” has crossed…
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Obamaganza: Michelle Obama Continues Her Reign on Essence's Next Cover—in Curls!
If you feel like you’re seeing Michelle Obama everywhere these days, get used to it. With the release of her acclaimed memoir, Becoming, plus a nine-city book tour with crowds rivaling any her friends Beyoncé and Oprah might attract, she’s successfully transitioned from former First Lady to bona fide phenomenon. Very few superstars have been…
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Michelle Obama’s Becoming Is Everything You Knew It Would Be
We all know by heart Michelle Obama’s public story: The girl from the South Side of Chicago, raised by incredibly hard-working parents. The descendant of slaves who attended two Ivy League institutions and then returned home to invest in her community, eventually meeting her beloved husband and raising two daughters. We know, too, Michelle Obama’s…
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In Becoming, Michelle Reveals Barack Obama Was a ‘Swerver’—and It Could Be Disorienting
There is a lot we want to know about Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, the highly gifted young girl from Chicago’s South Side who made history as America’s first black first lady. What she smells like, for example, or whether she fantasized about throwing a shoe at the back of Donald Trump’s squirrelly toupee at his inauguration,…
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'I Like Me': Our Forever First Lady Talks to Oprah for Elle Magazine
Despite all the abuse she endured while in the White House, Michelle Obama is indisputably one of the most likable first ladies ever to inhabit the role. And in a new interview with Oprah Winfrey for Elle magazine, she gets candid about being one half of a famously political couple, doubles down on her assessment of…
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The Obamas 1st Netflix Project Could Be a Series About How Inept the Trump Administration Truly Is
In the latest chess move by the Obamas, the former president and first lady—arguably the best to ever sit in the White House—have licensed a book about the Trump White House which could be crafted into a series that shows just how incompetent the Trump administration really is. While nothing has gotten a green light…
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