Michelle Obama

Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, whose production company Higher Ground backed the documentary American Factory, congratulated the film’s directors after their Oscar win Sunday in Documentary Feature. “Congrats to Julia and Steven , the filmmakers behind American Factory, for telling such a complex, moving story about…

After the CEO of Agroplasma, an Arizona fertilizer company, is told to sit in the back seat by a black driver, the CEO is greatly offended and argues relentlessly. The driver, an Arizona State University student, remains calm and polite and also firm about his no-front-seat-passengers policy. The CEO, Hans…

Photo: Elisabetta A. Villa (Getty Images), Paras Griffin (Getty Images)Making the transition from getting away with murders to the perversely far harder time of getting away with being, by all accounts, a perfectly pleasant person who just happens to be married to a still-ongoing target of frothing right-wing hate, THR…

Viola Davis is saying goodbye to Shondaland and hello to the White House. The actress will play former first lady Michelle Obama in the upcoming Showtime series First Lady, the network announced Wednesday. The news comes as Davis, 54, prepares to bid farewell to her Emmy-winning role of Annalise Keating…

Viola Davis to play Michelle Obama in Showtime series

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A Michigan State University gift shop displayed a collection of miniature dolls of black leaders like Michelle Obama and Harriet Tubman by hanging them from a small tree. Upset by this extreme insensitivity, grad student Krystal Rose Davis-Dunn says she asked the staff if they noticed anything wrong with the…

(GREENVILLE, S.C.) — “President Donald J. Trump Interchange” or “President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama Interchange?” That is the soon-to-be fiercely debated question for state lawmakers in South Carolina whose preferences fall along clear partisa…

Michigan State University issued an apology after students found dolls of notable black people hanging from strings on trees in a gift shop.One of the students, Krystal Davis-Dunn, said "these images evoke a visceral experience."Her friend, Paule-Elizabeth Jackson, recalled feeling "disgust, anger and sadness." Unfortunately, she said, this isn't the…

In May 2018, after spending more than 30 years at BET Networks, Debra Lee stepped down as chairman and CEO, following a series of reorganizations within Viacom cable networks. But Lee, who also oversaw the launch of the first network for black women (BET Her…