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  • After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016

    After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016 The Onion November 2012 Sources say the screaming orb might be the only potential candidate that would tap into Republicans’ deep-seated, seething fury after this election.

  • What must it feel like to be President Obama today?

    What must it feel like to be President Obama today? Salon 2016-11-10 Sophia Tesfaye Barack Obama and Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office, Nov. 10, 2016. (Credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) President Obama and Donald Trump meet for their first face-to-face meeting in the White House Thursday While at least a quarter of the country…

  • ‘Barry’ Is An Introspection On President Obama’s Collegiate Years

    ‘Barry’ Is An Introspection On President Obama’s Collegiate Years Black Girl Nerds 2016-11-06 Jamie Broadnax An Uneventful Origin Story Of Our First Black President The most profound experiences of our lives happen during those tumultuous years before we have achieved our own level of success.  The moment before we meet the love of our life, start…

  • Turn Onto Old Dixie. After a Long, Rocky Stretch, It Becomes Obama Highway.

    Turn Onto Old Dixie. After a Long, Rocky Stretch, It Becomes Obama Highway. The New York Times 2016-10-23 Dan Barry Peter Henry, the son of Dora Johnson, looking over a wall near 27th Street and President Barack Obama Highway in Riviera Beach, Fla., that once separated black and white neighborhoods. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York…

  • The way ahead

    The way ahead The Economist 2016-10-08 Barack Obama, President of The United States America’s president writes for us about four crucial areas of unfinished business in economic policy that his successor will have to tackle WHEREVER I go these days, at home or abroad, people ask me the same question: what is happening in the…

  • The “Birther” Movement: Whites Defining Black

    The “Birther” Movement: Whites Defining Black Racism Review 2016-09-18 Dr. Terence Fitzgerald, Clinical Associate Professor University of Southern California Hallelujah I say, Hallelujah! Did you hear the news? Did ya? After sending a team of investigators to Hawaii, drawing the attention of the national and international media, and leading an almost six year charge of…

  • Meritocracy in Obama’s Gilded Age

    Meritocracy in Obama’s Gilded Age The Chronicle of Higher Education 2016-09-25 Aziz Rana, Professor of Law Cornell University, Ithaca, New York The Obama administration’s vision of social mobility in America is bound up with a story about higher education. According to this story, elite colleges and universities are engines of American opportunity. They select the…

  • Obama: African-American museum helps tell fuller story of America

    Obama: African-American museum helps tell fuller story of America Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-09-24 Eugene Scott, Politics Reporter Suzanne Malveaux, National correspondent Kevin Bohn, Supervising Producer Washington (CNN) President Barack Obama said Saturday that the new Smithsonian museum devoted to African-American history elevates the often-overlooked impact of black Americans and will help others better understand…

  • Emotional Obama Tearfully Thanks Trump for Granting Him Citizenship

    Emotional Obama Tearfully Thanks Trump for Granting Him Citizenship Borowitz Report The New Yorker 2016-09-16 Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Calling this “the greatest day of my life,” a visibly moved Barack Obama held a news conference on Friday to thank Donald Trump for granting him U.S. citizenship. “The issue of whether or not I…

  • Unwinding a Lie: Donald Trump and ‘Birtherism’

    Unwinding a Lie: Donald Trump and ‘Birtherism’ The New York Times 2016-09-16 Michael Barbaro It was not true in 2011, when Donald J. Trump mischievously began to question President Obama’s birthplace aloud in television interviews. “I’m starting to think that he was not born here,” he said at the time. It was not true in…