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  • Are You Ready for a Barack and Michelle Obama Speaking-Engagement World Tour? 

    Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are gearing up for public appearances and book deals by signing up with the Harry Walker Agency, which will coordinate the speaking engagements while two attorneys will represent them for contract negotiations regarding potential book deals, a spokesman said Friday. Politico reports that spokesman Kevin Lewis…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Caption This Photo of Michelle Obama

    I feel you, Chelle.

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • Michelle Obama Shares Her Last Walk Through the White House

    First lady Michelle Obama strutted her stuff one last time through the White House with her dogs Sunny and Bo. It’s safe to say that the “People’s House” will never be the same again once the Obamas leave Friday. But for those of us in the Washington, D.C., area, we’ll still have their presence in…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • America Didn’t Deserve Michelle Obama

    I forgot exactly where we were in Pittsburgh. Maybe driving from the Target in East Liberty to the YMCA in the Mexican War Streets. Or, perhaps, at my wife’s grandmother’s house in the Hill District, eating smothered turkey burgers with smoked kale greens and washing them down with Pineapple Faygo. But I do remember who…

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    Damon Young

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  • The President Had Us All in Tears During His #ObamaFarewell Address

    The Obama farewell wasn’t a funeral. Far from it. In fact, it was a revival. At the close of a historic two-term presidency, as the nation’s first African-American president of the United States, Barack Obama had one last benevolent act: to remind the country not to give up on hope or the belief that it…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Black Fashion Designers Get Some Long-Overdue Love in New Exhibit

    Black style is so prominent that the first word of the couplet is practically unnecessary; very little that’s stylish doesn’t have some black antecedent. On the other hand, black fashion designers? They are some of the other hidden figures on the cultural landscape. That’s what makes “Black Fashion Designers,” the exhibit that runs until May…

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    The Root Staff

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  • The Winners of 2016

    Flatly, 2016 as a staff, record label and as a motherf—king crew has collectively sucked. Far too many people have died, and a spoiled, mango-colored racist man surrounded by a bunch of like-minded bigots and sycophants will soon make life hell for many who have survived. However, as draining as this year has felt for…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • W.Va. Woman Who Called Michelle Obama ‘Ape in Heels’ Fired

    The director of a West Virginia nonprofit agency who took to Facebook to call first lady Michelle Obama an “ape in heels” has been fired, according to state officials. According to Reuters, Pamela Taylor was fired for her offensive and insensitive Facebook post. Taylor was head of the Clay County Development Corp., which provides services…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Kwanzaa Really Should Be The Best Holiday, And Here's How We Can Make That Happen

    It’s become a tradition at my house to host a Christmas Eve party. This way we get to exchange gifts with family but we don’t have to leave the house on Christmas Day. This year, The Misses expanded it into an ugly sweater party with a ‘white elephant’ gift exchange. We had a signature drink,…

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    Eric Goldson

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