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Barack & Michelle Obama Praise ‘American Factory’ Directors After Oscar Win Michelle Obama

Barack & Michelle Obama Praise ‘American Factory’ Directors After Oscar Win

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…
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February 10, 2020
Showtimes gives series order to Viola-Davis-as-Michelle-Obama show First Ladies Michelle Obama

Showtimes gives series order to Viola-Davis-as-Michelle-Obama show First Ladies

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…
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February 6, 2020
University gift shop displayed black leader dolls by hanging them from a model tree Michelle Obama

University gift shop displayed black leader dolls by hanging them from a model tree

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…
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February 5, 2020
S.C. Lawmakers Are Arguing Over Whether to Name a Highway Interchange for President Trump or President Obama Michelle Obama

S.C. Lawmakers Are Arguing Over Whether to Name a Highway Interchange for President Trump or President Obama

(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…
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February 4, 2020
Michigan State University apologizes amid backlash for ‘inappropriate and insensitive’ gift shop display with dolls of notable black figures hanging from trees Michelle Obama

Michigan State University apologizes amid backlash for ‘inappropriate and insensitive’ gift shop display with dolls of notable black figures hanging from trees

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…
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February 3, 2020