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Fans traded favorite “Black Panther” clips and photos, sending them viral. Stars and dignitaries — a former president, media moguls and a who’s who of A-list entertainment luminaries — posted heartfelt RIPs. And even across the Atlantic, a British soccer star celebrated a key goal by flashing the “Wakanda Forever” salute, his hands in fists …
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Former President Barack Obama is the latest public figure to mourn the loss of “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, who died Friday night after a four-year battle with colon cancer. Obama recalled Boseman visiting the White House in 2013 as he gained notoriety for playing Jackie Robinson in biopic, “42.” “Chadwick came to the White …
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The anti-Trump Lincoln Project was forced to delete a viral tweet that falsely claimed President Trump “relished” in a convention supporter calling former President Barack Obama a “monkey,” while the video clearly shows the term was not used. “When President Trump mentioned Obama, someone from the crowd shouted, “Monkey!” and the president relished in it. …
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Former president Barack Obama accused Republicans of counting on voters’ cynicism to limit voter turnout and aid their effort to “take away your democracy” in his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night. In a live address delivered from Philadelphia, the former president asked voters to “embrace your own responsibility as citizens to …
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‘My colleagues propose this rules change because they believe they can get away with it rather than because they know it’s good for our democracy,’ Obama said when ending the filibuster would have set Democrats back. So much for consistency. Last week, while delivering a eulogy for Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), former President Obama called …
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Michelle Obama’s first guest on her new Spotify podcast was husband Barack Obama. She revealed, “One of the reasons I fell in love with you is because you are guided by the principle that we are each other’s brothers’ and sisters’ keepers.” The former president shot back, “It wasn’t just my looks … that’s OK.” …
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Multiple Obama Defense Department officials who publicly criticized news that the department’s in-house training characterizes protestors and journalists as “adversaries” oversaw the same program during their own time in government. The story, published in Politico, at first claimed that Defense Secretary Mark Esper was instituting “new” training across the military in an effort to improve …
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Former president Barack Obama slammed the Senate filibuster as a “Jim Crown relic” and urged lawmakers to back statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, during a speech at the memorial service for Georgia congressman John Lewis. Obama made the comments while calling for the passage of a Democrat-sponsored bill, known as the John Lewis …
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Former FBI director James Comey told President Obama that the 2016 conversations between Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and incoming national-security adviser Michael Flynn were not criminal in nature, according to notes from former agent Peter Strzok released by Flynn’s legal team. The page of notes was taken by Strzok appears to describe a January 5, …
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama thanks President Barack Obama for the way he loves “all the young people in this country” in a Father’s Day tribute on Facebook Sunday. The mother-of-two shared a throwback photo Sunday of Barack laughing along with the couple’s daughters, Malia, 21, and Sasha, 19. “Thank you for the way you …
Fans traded favorite “Black Panther” clips and photos, sending them viral. Stars and dignitaries — a former president, media moguls and a who’s who of A-list entertainment luminaries — posted heartfelt RIPs. And even across the Atlantic, a British soccer star celebrated a key goal by flashing the “Wakanda Forever” salute, his hands in fists …
