Barack Obama

Wednesday marked 10 years since President Barack Obama announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, to protect undocumented people brought to the United States as children from deportation.  “Let’s be clear,” Obama said when announcing DACA in 2012. “This is not amnesty, this is not immunity. This…

Eric Holder, the former frontline prosecutor and local judge who served as Barack Obama’s first attorney general, was never a fan of Donald Trump, but he responded cautiously in 2019 when asked whether Trump should face prosecution even after he left office. “I think there is a potential cost to…

In each of the last two weeks, an 18-year-old American male has horrifically gripped the nation’s attention, one for allegedly gunning down 10 Black people at a grocery store in upstate New York, the other for slaughtering 19 Latino fourth-graders and two teachers at a Texas school. Those teens represent…

The 44th president of the United States, who gave us the 46th president of the United States, has weighed in on Uvalde and it might be the worst take on planet earth. As we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have…

With the recent horrific events of the Texas school shooting and Buffalo supermarket massacre, the focus on raising up strong leaders to change America’s path is even more urgent.  Here’s how Barack Obama, Lil Durk and Travis Scott are planting the seed right now to give us hope for the…

UPDATED: Among the chorus of well-known voices in media, politics and showbusiness expressing outrage at Tuesday’s school massacre was former President Barack Obama. In a long string of thoughts posted to Twitter, Obama said he and wife Michelle were angry for the families of the victims. The former First Lady…

Roommates, a Birmingham, MI teacher, faces disciplinary actions and is on administrative leave after assigning students at Roeper School a worksheet titled “Apes, Monkeys, and Lemurs: An Introduction to Primates.” As we previously reported, the worksheet distributed last week compared former US President Barack Obama to primates. The school has…

An assignment depicting Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president, next to monkeys and other animals prompted a private school in Michigan to place a teacher on leave. The incident occurred at The Roeper School, which advertises itself as a school for gifted students from throughout the region. The school…

Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Kathy Barnette was confronted Sunday on Fox News Sunday about anti-Muslim tweets that she posted including ones that targeted former President Barack Obama. Host Shannon Bream asked the Senate hopeful during a segment about the context in which those tweets were posted. "Obama is aMuslim. Doing…

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board and argued that the agency’s definition of disinformation could be applied to former President Barack Obama’s promise that people who liked their doctor could keep it and wondered, “who do you…