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  • Obama Tears Into ‘Aggravating’ Attempts by Republicans to Overhaul the Affordable Care Act

    The one, true president, Barack Obama, had a lot to get off his chest on Wednesday while speaking in New York: He tore into Republicans and their continued efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act, and also addressed climate change and white supremacy, all in the same breath. Obama must be just as fed up…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Obama Continues Key Initiative to Provide Opportunities to Boys and Young Men of Color 

    Former President Barack Obama has followed through on a major part of his lifelong goal to help the country achieve greater racial and social justice: closing the opportunity gap for boys and young men of color. The Obama Foundation, a nonprofit organization set up by the former president and first lady with the expressed goal…

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    Anne Branigin

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  • Obama’s Back … and Not a Moment Too Soon

    Former President Barack Obama recently made a surprise appearance at a Washington, D.C., school, much to the obvious delight of its students—and the rest of us who hope that he’ll be out here more, and more vocal about the sad state of affairs his sad! successor has gotten us into. Cool-ass B.O. reportedly strode into…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Does Sarah Huckabee Sanders Miss President Obama as Much as We Do?

    On Tuesday, during her “urgent” White House press briefing where she laid out Donald Trump’s plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and presumably displace 800,000 young undocumented immigrants and remove them from the only home they have known, Sarah Huckabee Sanders accidentally referred to Trump as “President Obama” more than once.…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Read the Note Barack Obama Graciously Left for Donald Trump … Which Trump Has All but Ignored

    Outgoing President Barack Obama left a handwritten note to President Donald Trump during their peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 20, 2017. The letter, a simple 275 words, was warm, gracious and indicative of the character of the man who was America’s first black president—by all reports, an intelligent, thoughtful, measured man. According to CNN, which…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Magical Negroes, Ranked

    20. Candyman from Candyman (was definitely a Magical Negro—just had misguided magic) 19. Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost 18. Whoopi Goldberg on The View 17. Hitch 16. Uncle Ben 15. Olivia Pope 14. Shaq (and not Shaq in Kazaam, but just Shaq, generally) 13. Anthony Mackie in The Adjustment Bureau 12. Djimon Hounsou in everything 11.…

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    Damon Young

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  • Barack Obama Just Got His Very Own Holiday in the State of Ill.

    The state of Illinois has decided to recognize the GOAT, former President Barack Obama, with his own state holiday. Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed “Barack Obama Day” into law on Friday. The newest state holiday will be celebrated across Illinois on Aug. 4 (Obama’s birthday) every year, starting in 2018, NBC Chicago reports. The holiday…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Trump Takes a Hypocritical 17-Day Vacation and We’re All Like, ‘Byeee!’

    Your president, Donald Trump, left the White House on Friday to embark on a 17-day “working” vacation at his golf club in New Jersey. While all presidents deserve (and certainly take) a little time away, Trump will have enjoyed 53 “leisure” days through August 2017, according to the Washington Post, compared with President Barack Obama’s…

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    Danielle Young

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  • Watch: Former White House Photographer Pete Souza Is Donald Trump’s Perfect Troll

    Nothing celebrates #ObamaDay as well as trolling President Donald Trump, right? And there’s no one who does it better than former White House photographer Pete Souza. If you followed Souza on Instagram during the Obama administration, you got to see some pretty epic snapshots of our favorite president. From that time Obama let the little…

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    Danielle Young

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  • Trump Goads Boy Scouts to Boo Obama at National Jamboree

    In his never-ending obsession with former President Barack Obama, President Donald Trump on Monday acted with no Scout’s honor. During a rambling keynote address to the Boy Scouts of America’s National Jamboree in Glen Jean, W.Va., our esteemed leader goaded the group to boo his predecessor, modeling the epitome of class for the more than…

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    Angela Helm

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