On Monday morning, the National Portrait Gallery unveiled its official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama. I thought they were nice and cool and sleek and shit, but some others did not. But, then, some people were mad at the people who did not, like, âYou canât critique art if youâre not an expert on art.â WhichâŚ
Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of those people who always have something smart to say, because heâs actually really, really smart. Whether heâs reminding Americans that they elected the first white president or providing the cheat code for white liberals to explain to their kinfolk why they canât say ânigger,â Coates is bothâŚ
Someone posted a photo of former President Barack Obama feeding meals to homeless and at-risk veterans during Thanksgiving from two years ago and claimed that the photo was of Obama in Texas after Hurricane Harvey.
Heâs baaaaack. And not a moment too soon. Former President Barack Obama is coming around after about six months of detoxing from his eight years of wypipo hell in office and will host a fundraiser in Washington, D.C., this week.
While riding in an Uber last week â traveling from Memphis International Airport to the hotel I was staying in â I asked the driver if she, a 60-something Black woman and life-long Memphian, had any recommendations on which BBQ joints I should sample during my short stay in town. To my dismay, she suggested RendezvousâŚ
A senior Energy Department official tried to delete all of his hateful, racist and misogynist tweets, but the internet remains undefeated.
When Barack Obama boxed up the Lawryâs Seasoned Salt and packed the Texas Pete (becauseâas we all knowâonly poseurs use Frankâs Red Hot), black America figured it was finally over. We believed the only upside to the title of âformer presidentâ was that he wouldnât have to endure the inane outrage that some peopleâŚ
Former President Barack Obama is totally the girl who broke up with us and knows our new girlfriend is an airhead whoâs verbally abusive and thinks we could do better. And we, progressive America, are the boyfriend who wants her back.
Can we all just agree that the president is an orange-skinned snake oil salesman who conned those who voted for him into believing that he wasnât? Can we also just agree that Russia has a basement apartment in the White House and writes âMother Russiaâ on the milk and cereal so that President Asshat doesnât touch itsâŚ
FBI Director James Comey came for the president with all the receipts his office carries, noting that there was âno information to supportâ President Donald TrumPutinâs outlandish claim that former President Barack Obama tapped his office during the 2016 election.
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 AmericaâŚ
I havenât done a full count of how many times President Ass Face has said former President Barack Obamaâs name, but at this point Iâm expecting him to follow Obama out of a club in Los Angeles and force his way into Obamaâs SUV.
Editorâs 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 isnât just about telling stories of our past. History is being made every day and has been made throughout our lives; itâs not justâŚ
A Texas man who was given a second chance after his life sentence on drug charges was commuted by then-President Barack Obama may once again be spending years behind bars after being caught with more than 2 pounds of cocaine following a high-speed chase, the New York Post reports.
Evans Ray knew heâd made a horrible mistake when he was caught distributing some 60 grams of crack cocaine. He also didnât believe that the punishment should have been life in prison. But two prior low-level drug convictions ensured that in 2004, Ray would get the max with no possibility of parole.
Former President Barack Obama (OMG! We miss you so much, you donât even know!) wants to make it clear that President Donald Trumpâs âMuslim banâ is not based on policy from his presidency.
Amy Blagojevich, the oldest daughter of former Illinois governor and current federal inmate Rod Blagojevich, used Facebook to blast former President Barack Obama for not releasing her father from prison, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The 20-year-old reportedly had her mom post her missive on her Facebook page.
A man who was recently released from prison after former President Barack Obama commuted his sentence was killed Monday night when two masked gunmen entered a federal halfway house in Saginaw, Mich., and shot him execution style, police say.
One of my favorite true-life parables is the story of Hungarian Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis. In the mid-1800s, Semmelweis worked in a maternity clinic where a large number of women died during childbirth. He believed that the problem was neither the medicine nor their treatments. Semmelweis believed that there were tinyâŚ
