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Former First Lady Michelle Obama joined actresses Laverne Cox and Viola Davis and others in rallying online support to reassure a young girl who went viral after saying she felt “ugly.” “Ariyonna, you are gorgeous,” Obama, 56, posted on Instagram where she shared a video showing the girl saying, “I’m…

Crip Camp debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and became a big hit at the fest, winning the Audience Award for documentaries and earning a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating from reviewers. The Netflix film, which is executive produced by former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama, is a…

One of the more interesting original titles hitting Netflix in March is Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which arrives just two months after it took home the Audience Award at the Sundance film festival. Netflix has released the official trailer for the enlightening doc, which explores how teenagers at a…

Phillip Agnew speaks as a national surrogate for Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders at Cal State University in Fullerton. The event was part of the Bernie 2020 California College Tour: Ronen Tivony/SOPA Images/ShutterstockA new adviser to the Bernie Sanders campaign issued an apology on Twitter for calling Michelle Obama “ugly”…

The good news for Democrats is that the chance that Bernie Sanders will be their nominee in the fall has receded. The bad news is that Joe Biden is no prize as a candidate, which adds urgency to the discussion about who can juice up his ticket as the vice-presidential…

Michelle Obama is going big this year for International Women’s Day. The former first lady, 56, will star in YouTube’s upcoming special, Creators for Change on Girls’ Education, and sit down with YouTube creators Liza Koshy, Prajakta Koli and Thembe Mahlaba to discuss the state of girls’ education around the…

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Photo: Matt McClain/The Washington Post (Getty Images)Two certifiable Hollywood power duos are teaming up tonight, as Deadline reports that Joe and Anthony Russo and Barack and Michelle Obama are apparently getting together to discuss how fun it was controlling the fates of millions of people, and also to make a…

Barack and Michelle Obama have reportedly found their next producing project. The duo will team up with Anthony and Joe Russo (Avengers: Endgame) to produce Exit West, a feature film adaptation of author Mohsin Hamid’s bestselling novel, and Riz Ahmed (The Night Of, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Nightcrawler) is currently attached…

Michelle Obama spent 2008 campaigning for her husband Barack, experiencing a level of scrutiny that was undeniably linked to her race and would persist for years to come. That August, she delivered a stirring address at the Democratic National Convention in which she talked about the “improbable journey” from her…