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When former Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of the murder of George Floyd in April, Barack and Michelle Obama shared a joint statement in which they noted “true justice is about much more than a single verdict in a single trial.” Now, in a new interview with Gayle King, Michelle Obama is […]

Former POTUS Barack Obama, who’s currently enjoying a podcast run alongside Bruce Springsteen with Spotify’s Renegades: Born in the USA, has always made music a key element in his day-to-day life. He recently shared with his nearly 35 million Instagram followers the opportunity to send him questions about his podcast or other topics that he would answer, and […]

Former president Barack Obama wished the former first lady and his wife Michelle a happy birthday on Sunday, in celebration of her 57th birthday. “Happy birthday to my love, my partner, and my best friend,” Obama wrote on Instagram, alongside a photo of a younger Michelle in a yellow tank top. “Every moment with you […]

Barack Obama took to social media Saturday to share his favorite tracks of 2020. The the 30-song list includes a diverse mix of chart-toppers hits and indie cuts, and covers a wide range of genres, including everything from rap and R&B to rock and reggaeton to country and pop. Obama admitted to his followers that the well-rounded list was curated with the […]

Atlanta rapper Offset is joining the chorus of celebrities with doubts about the COVID-19 vaccine. “I don’t trust it though,” Set said, after being asked by TMZ if he planned to get the treatment now that the first doses of the vaccine are on their way.  The Migos rapper expressed his skepticism about the vaccine, citing distrust between […]

A Russian TV station has generated outrage over a skit it aired in which an actress donned blackface to play Barack Obama. The caveat to that statement is that most of that outrage seems to be based in America, which is to say it’s unlikely to matter in any way to the actual station.  According to TMZ, the […]

Former POTUS Barack Obama‘s new book A Promised Land, released Nov. 17, bagged the largest first-day sales total for any book ever published by Penguin Random House. The publisher announced this week that Obama’s book sold more than 887,000 units in all formats and editions in the U.S. and Canada on its first day of […]

Barack Obama values his marriage with Michelle too much to jeopardize it by taking on a cabinet position in President-elect Joe Biden‘s administration. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Obama said he will be available for Biden, but his involvement will not include him returning to work full-time in the White House. “He doesn’t need my advice, and I will help him […]

Former President Barack Obama is concerned about the willingness of a majority of Republican party members to feed into Donald Trump‘s baseless theories that call into question the validity of the 2020 presidential election. In a snippet from his upcoming 60 Minutes interview, Obama insists that propping up Trump’s efforts to delegitimize an election that he lost by practically the same margin that he won in 2016 […]

Barack Obama congratulated his former Vice President on his apparent presidential election win. In a statement shared to Twitter, after it became clear that Joe Biden had won the crucial state of Pennsylvania, and thus the presidency, the two-term president said he was proud of Biden and Harris. “I could not be prouder to congratulate […]