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Michelle Obama Encourages Kids to Cook Healthy on MasterChef Junior

Michelle Obama is still spreading her message of keeping kids healthy through food and exercise, even after leaving the White House. (Please come back, Michelle!) Anyway, although Aunt Shellie has been keeping a low profile since January, she was in the spotlight Thursday night with an appearance on MasterChef Junior. And unsurprisingly, she bade competitors…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

March 17, 2017
Michelle Obama’s Program for Healthy School Lunches Is Target of Lobbying Group Seeking to Change Nutrition Standards

A key lobbying group is proposing changes that would reduce federal nutritional standards that former first lady Michelle Obama implemented with the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. The School Nutrition Association released its Federal Nutrition Standards recommendations in early March, and Newsweek reports that it is asking the Department of Agriculture to allow more flexibility in…

By

Monique Judge

Published

March 15, 2017
Very Smart Brothas

So, Michelle Obama Is Gon' Just Be Outchea Staying Awesome, Huh? With Her Bomb Self.

My auntie and your auntie, Michelle Obama, of the Chicago Obamas, is out here kickin’ ass and takin’ names in Washington, DC. In as many weeks, she just up and showed up at two public schools in Washington, DC, without nary a warning, nod, spoiler alert, or heads up and granted some 26 students (14…

By

Panama Jackson

Published

March 10, 2017
Very Smart Brothas

I'm Suffering From "Every Time I Hear 'First Lady' I Think 'Michelle Obama' Even Though She Aint It Anymore" Syndrome

I’ve accepted, grudgingly, that empty Miracle Whip jar filled with dead maggots with sentience Donald Trump is President of the United States. It’s a reality both horrifying (for obvious reasons) and validating, as his ascent and the support that allowed him to ascend is the best possible verification that America desperately wants to be Crash but is…

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Damon Young

Published

March 4, 2017
Can Someone Tell Apricot Idi Amin That Obama Was on Vacation, Not Worrying About Him?

Can someone explain to y’all’s punk-ass president that former President Barack Obama has been far more focused on tanning and swag surfing than riling up protesters who don’t need help hating his hateful, raggedy self? I would volunteer, but I imagine Omarosa would swoop in on the call and curse me out in the name…

By

Michael Arceneaux

Published

March 4, 2017
Entertainment

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…

By

Monique Judge

Published

February 28, 2017
Entertainment

Michelle Obama Is Back for the Kids

After a much-needed respite from the public eye, former first lady Michelle Obama will soon be back in our lives. According to the Washington Times, Obama will appear as a guest judge on the fifth season of MasterChef Junior in late February. She will join chefs Gordon Ramsay and Christina Tosi to judge children between…

By

Angela Helm

Published

February 20, 2017
Culture

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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Peter J. Rickards

Published

February 16, 2017
Very Smart Brothas

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…

By

Damon Young

Published

February 15, 2017
Entertainment

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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Monique Judge

Published

February 14, 2017