the obamas
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Obamas Tackle Trump’s Promises to the Rust Belt in Their 1st Netflix Offering, American Factory
Shots fired. That’s the take among reviewers of the Obamas’ first foray into TV production, which looks at the promise to America’s Rust Belt unfulfilled by the Trump administration. American Factory, which premieres on Netflix Wednesday, does not name Donald Trump explicitly, but, according to reviewers at Politico, it is a clear commentary on how…
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Presidential Production: Barack and Michelle Obama Announce New Netflix Slate, Including a Frederick Douglass Biopic
In case you needed a reminder, Barack and Michelle Obama became the strongest black leads when they signing an exclusive multiyear production deal with Netflix in 2018. Now, the time has come to see what they’ve got cookin’ (with ample seasoning, because black) in the production house. The former (and forever) president and first lady…
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Can I Live? Malia Obama Tries Out Braids for Summer, and Now Everybody’s a Hairstylist
First kids—they’re just like us! Ah, youth. I remember my college years at a predominantly white college in the Northeast, navigating a course load and campus job while trying to figure out how to stay cute while washing my hair with extra-hard dorm water … good times. It’s no wonder that by the end of…
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The Obamas Are Coming to Netflix, so You Can Forget About That Rachel Trollz-Us-All Doc
If you were hungry for more Michelle Obama dance-athons with the babies (or just more Michelle in general), you’re in luck: The Obamas are reportedly in advanced negotiations with Netflix to produce a series of high-profile shows, the New York Times reports. The paper notes that the original programming would “provide [the former president] a…
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Top 10 Blackest Experiences From the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival, the badass downtown sister to golden girl Sundance, is back on these screens April 19-28. Like the New York neighborhood it’s named for, every year TFF becomes richer; fortunately, as with Hollywood (though not the nabe so much), black images, people and stories abound. There is much at the festival that…
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Raising a Child in the Era of the Obamas, the Currys and (the New) Cosby
I come from a broken home. My parents were married for a time, but memories of my father in the house are few and far between because his military career often required him to be stationed out of state. I was about 8 when my mother filed for divorce, and as far as I was…