Barack Obama
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'Men Have Been Getting On My Nerves Lately': Barack Obama, Forever a Mood, Speaks Out For the Empowerment of Women in South Africa
#StillMyPresident Barack Obama has always had a way with words, even if he is only paraphrasing or repeating thoughts that others have long expressed. And while giving a speech at the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa, the former president became a whole ass mood after succinctly summing up many of our feelings about…
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Barack Obama Takes Shots at Donald Trump During Nelson Mandela Lecture
On Tuesday, in a speech in Johannesburg, South Africa, former President Barack Obama said—in so many words—what we’ve all been thinking: Not today, Trump! Obama just gave his biggest speech since leaving office at the at the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture. Without naming names, Obama took shoots at the current occupant of the White House. “I…
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Barack Obama Visits Kenya, Plans to Help His Sister Launch a Training Center
Former U.S. President Barack Obama visited Africa for the first time since he was in office to help his half-sister launch a sports and training center. Obama arrived in Africa on Sunday to visit his family and to meet with officials. He stopped in Kenya, the birthplace of his father to visit his relatives before…
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It’s Been a Lousy Week in Politics, and Some of It Is Obama’s Fault
It’s been a horrible week in politics, and it just keeps getting worse. Now, I don’t entirely agree with my colleague Terrell J. Starr’s assessment from yesterday. I don’t think we’re fucked—yet. But if we are collectively watching the movie of America on a date with Authoritarianism, then they just finished dinner, canceled Uber and…
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NABJ’s Executive Director Resigns
3 Months After That Letter, the Other Shoe Drops Netflix Spokesman Out After Using ‘N Word’ Forced Family Breakups Are Part of America, People of Color Say How That Devastating Audio Clip Came to Be Obama Separated Families, but Difference Is Scale NAHJ President Says Role Is to Support Journalists In 26 States, Whites’ Deaths…
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14 Black Holidays We Wish Were Real That Are Not Juneteenth, Kwanzaa or MLK Day
Here are 14 new black holidays that deserve your pomp and circumstance.
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Daddy’s Girl: Words to Make the Men Who Raise Queens Feel Like Kings
Father’s Day is here. It’s time to let the love flow in both word and deed in celebration of real men. I’m talking about men who do the work of raising their own biological children and even sometimes, perhaps more significantly, the kids who are not theirs by blood but who belong to them through…
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Stacey Abrams’ Sister Is Engaged to a Man Incarcerated 26 Years for a Rape and Robbery He Didn’t Commit
The story of Leslie’s fiance, Jimmie Gardner, is as extraordinary.
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Obama Doesn’t Owe This Country Shit
Barack Obama is not your Magical Negro. I know y’all want him to be, but you have to give the man a break. He just got out of one of the most abusive eight-year relationships imaginable. I’m sure he needs some time to decompress. There is this thing white people do where they invoke Obama’s…
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People Are Big Mad Over Netflix’s Production Deal With the Obamas
The haters are always gonna hate, and it seems that some people are really big mad that Netflix linked to Barack and Michelle Obama with a deal to produce original TV shows and movies with the streaming service. Long story short: The snowflakes ain’t having it. Of course, this is despite the fact that the…
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