Following performances from Dua Lipa, H.E.R., Kevin Hart and others, former president Barack Obama addressed the teens graduating high school amid a pandemic. “I couldn’t be prouder of all of you in the graduating class of 2020 as well as the teachers and the coaches and, most of all, parents …
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Barack Obama isn’t a huge fan of online call-out culture. While speaking at an Obama Foundation event in Chicago on Tuesday, the former president sounded off over what he perceives to be a desire among young people to prove how “woke” they are by judging others online. “This idea of …
Read More »Aretha and Black America's Two Biggest Moments
On a cold day in February, Martin Luther King Jr. surprised Aretha in Detroit to present her with a special award on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference while she was in town to be honored with her own day, “Aretha Franklin Day”, by the mayor. Too sick to …
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