Barack Obama
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Barack Obama Is the Recipient of the 2017 JFK Profile in Courage Award
The love for former President Barack Obama continued to flow Thursday as he was named the 2017 winner of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for carrying on the legacy of his fellow Democrat. NBC News reports that Caroline Kennedy and her son, Jack Schlossberg, will present Obama with the award during a…
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20 Things "You Ain't Gon' Do" In A Black Household
1. Put your feet up on my couch, Kellyanne Conway 2. Curse at me or mines 3. Run the AC and leave the door open running up my light bill when you didn’t put in on this 4. Talk shit about me in my house while I’m there even if I can’t hear you 5.…
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Trump Can’t Keep Obama’s Name out of His Mouth, and He’s Starting to Look Like Chris Brown
I haven’t done a full count of how many times President Ass Face has said former President Barack Obama’s name, but at this point I’m expecting him to follow Obama out of a club in Los Angeles and force his way into Obama’s SUV. He literally can’t stop saying Obama’s name. During an interview with…
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Barack and Michelle Continue to Rule: Bidding War for Obama Memoirs Reaches More Than $60,000,000
Barack and Michelle Obama are still in the hearts and minds of many Americans. We miss their presence and their spirit. We cry over their absence in the White House, especially given what we’ve been left with. We long for any tidbit of news we can get about them. Apparently, publishers also long to have…
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Tom Perez Elected Democratic National Committee Chair
Tom Perez, former labor secretary in the Obama administration, has been elected the new Democratic National Committee chair, beating out Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) for the top spot, the Washington Post reports. In a move that jump-started the battle dubbed the “West Wing vs. the Left Wing,” veterans of the Obama administration urged Perez to…
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And the Crowd Goes Wild: ‘Obammmaaaaaaaaaa’
Former President Barack Obama received applause after he stepped out of a meeting in New York City on Friday afternoon. The crowd on the street couldn’t help cheering and yelling, and one person asked for a speech. Looking dapper and fresh-faced, Obama waved to his fans as if to say, “Hi, I miss y’all. But…
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HBCUs Should Not Take Trump’s Hush Money
In a clearly calculated move, Betsy DeVos’ first stop to a postsecondary institution as the newly minted U.S. secretary of education was to an HBCU—Howard University, “the Mecca” of black education in the United States. Students and outside observers wasted no time serving up pointed questions and severe rebuke, but make no mistake: Every single…
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Watch: My Black History: Lorraine Toussaint’s Mission to See Barack Obama’s Inauguration
Editor’s note: During Black History Month, the focus is usually on historical figures who loomed larger than life, paving the way for the progress we experience today. But black history isn’t just about telling stories of our past. History is being made every day and has been made throughout our lives; it’s not just in…
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I Don't Want The Obamas To Ever Come Back
It’s been a little over eight years since the night Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, and the memory of exactly how I saw it happen (on CNN, where the race was called as soon as California’s first polling results came in), where I was when seeing it (sitting on the couch…
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Michelle and Barack Obama Send Each Other the Cutest Valentine’s Day Tweets Ever
Just because I am single on Valentine’s Day (and single in general) doesn’t mean I cannot appreciate the spectacle of true love when it presents itself in front of me in the form of Michelle LaVaughn Robinson and Barack Hussein Obama, the most famous winners of the cutest-couple contest that you have ever seen in…
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