Former President Barack Obama, pictured, is halfway to achieving EGOT status. Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Barack Obama won an Emmy on Saturday for his narration on Netflix's "Our Great National Parks." The award makes Obama the second US president in history to win an Emmy. It also inches Obama closer to prestigious […]
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The First Lady: O-T Fagbenle Tapped to Play Barack Obama in Showtime Drama
RELATED STORIES Showtime’s political drama The First Lady has sworn in another cast member: O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid’s Tale) will play President Barack Obama in the upcoming anthology, opposite Viola Davis as Michelle Obama. The First Lady, which snagged a series order at Showtime just over a year ago, will pull back the curtain on the […]
Barack Obama Gives Keynote Address During Graduate Together Primetime Special — Watch Live Stream
RELATED STORIES This Saturday, Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 will celebrate the graduates and families across the country affected by school closures stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. Celebrities, educators and leaders from around the world will pitch in to offer sage advice and praise the achievements of those who have worked […]
Michelle Obama uses a good parent-bad parent analogy to compare Barack Obama to Trump
Getty Images/Mark Wilson The former first lady, Michelle Obama, used a parenting analogy to describe the differences between President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump. She likened Obama to the “good parent,” who encourages healthy behavior, and Trump as “the other parent,” who takes a lax approach to the things he’s in charge of. This […]
Mark Hamill says one of his best ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ moments was inspired by Barack Obama
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill revealed the story behind Luke Skywalker brushing off his shoulder in the iconic moment from “The Last Jedi.” Speaking during a panel at SXSW, Hamill said he found inspiration for the “dirt off your shoulder” gesture in former US President Barack Obama.& Ultimately, director Rian Johnson toned down […]
Legends of Tomorrow Eyeing Episode About Young Barack Obama
Legends of Tomorrow is rewinding the clock to the very early Obama years. TVLine has learned exclusively that the time-tripping CW drama is revolving an upcoming Season 3 episode around a teenage version of President Barack Obama. Set in the late ’70s when the future No. 44 was a student at Occidental College, the hour is […]
David Letterman’s Netflix Show Arrives Later This Month, Barack Obama is the First Guest
It’s been two and a half years since David Letterman left behind The Late Show at CBS for a little bit of a retirement. But as any comedian will tell you, staying out of the spotlight isn’t easy. So we weren’t surprised to learn last summer that David Letterman was putting together an original series […]
Barack Obama: ‘Concrete steps’ are needed ‘to reduce the violence and weaponry in our midst’
Former President Barack Obama offered condolences to people affected by the Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shooting on Sunday. Obama also asked US citizens to look inward to “reduce the violence and weaponry in our midst.” President Donald Trump called the shooting an “act of evil” and applauded the actions of first responders. Former President Barack […]
Barack Obama breaks the record for most-liked Tweet
Barack Obama’s August 13th tweet promoting racial and religious tolerance has become the most liked of all time, Twitter says. The message — apparently in response to the death of a woman at Charlottesville neo-Nazi marches — quotes Nelson Mandela and reads, “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his […]
Barack Obama now has his own day written into law (POLL)
Published time: 6 Aug, 2017 22:48 Barack Obama, the former US President and darling of many, celebrated his 56th birthday Friday. Amid the outpouring of online adulation, and from many in the press, lawmakers in his home state of Illinois has declared August 4 in his honor. Obama joins a select list of former presidents […]