Barack Obama
U.S. Senate confirms Wally Adeyemo as deputy treasury secretary
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Adewale Wally Adeyemo as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, making him the first Nigerian-American to hold the powerful job. Adeyemo, 39, has struck a hardline tone on China, vowing to fight what he called Beijing’s “unfair economic practices” and hold China accountable to international rules. He is expected to play a key role in shaping U.S. economic policy on issues ranging from financial regulation to relief for everyday Americans and U.S. sanctions on foreign governments. A former senior adviser at asset manager BlackRock Inc and the child of Nigerian immigrants, Adeyemo served as a top national security and economic adviser to Democratic former President Barack Obama and held senior jobs at the Treasury. The Senate on Thursday confirmed Adeyemo on a voice ...
President Barack Obama Says He Broke Kid’s Nose Who Called Him A Coon
Source: NurPhoto / Getty Barack Obama has been busy since leaving the White House but the 44th President of the United States still has an impact on the culture at large. By way of a new podcast with Rock legend Bruce Springsteen, Obama shared a story of how he broke a friend’s nose who called a coon on the basketball court. Obama and Springsteen have paired up for the Spotify podcast series Renegades: Born In The USA, where the two men seemingly with little in common on paper are actually aligned more than any of their supporters or fans would know. With frank tales about their different upbringings and challenging discussions on race while living in America, Obama landed on a story about living in Hawaii as a teenager and the interaction where he was met with the derogatory term. This ca...
Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama Launch Renegades Podcast
Former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen have joined forces on Renegades: Born in the USA, an eight-show podcast series where the friends discuss topics including race, fatherhood, marriage, and the state of America. The first two episodes – “American Skin: Race in the United States” and “Outsiders: An Unlikely Friendship” – dropped today on Spotify. It’s the second original podcast from President Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground, and Spotify. President Obama and Springsteen have been buds since they met on the campaign trail in 2008 when Obama first ran for president. The episodes, which range between 42 and 52 minutes, will allow listeners to “eavesdrop as the duo discuss their hometowns and role models, explore modern manhood, and c...
Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama Launch Renegades Podcast
Former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen have joined forces on Renegades: Born in the USA, an eight-show podcast series where the friends discuss topics including race, fatherhood, marriage, and the state of America. The first two episodes – “American Skin: Race in the United States” and “Outsiders: An Unlikely Friendship” – dropped today on Spotify. It’s the second original podcast from President Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground, and Spotify. President Obama and Springsteen have been buds since they met on the campaign trail in 2008 when Obama first ran for president. The episodes, which range between 42 and 52 minutes, will allow listeners to “eavesdrop as the duo discuss their hometowns and role models, explore modern manhood, and c...
Sotheby’s Auctioning Off A Pair Of President Barack Obama Nike Hyperdunk PE’s
Source: Sotheby’s / Sotheby’s If Americans didn’t appreciate the professionalism and class that former President Barack Obama demonstrated during his 8-year tenure as President of The United States, after what we’ve experienced the last four years, best believe they do now. Well, most of them anyway. Source: Sotheby’s / Sotheby’s Now Sotheby‘s is going to auction off a piece of Obama-related memorabilia that any sneakerhead who was a fan of our 44th President could appreciate. According to HypeBeast a pair of Presidential exclusive Nike Hyperdunk PE’s will be hitting the auction block on February 12th at 4:44pm. No, the time has nothing to do with Jay-Z’s last album. It’s actually to coincide with the start of President’s Day Weekend. The Hyperdunks were a hot commodity for baske...
Biden Administration Plans To Move Forward With Adding Harriet Tubman to $20 Bill
Source: Smith Collection/Gado / Getty President Joe Biden has had a busy first week in office, reversing problematic Trump-era executive orders, but it seems that one item on his agenda stems from his friend and our forever President, Barack Obama‘s, mission to get Harriet Tubman as the new face of the twenty-dollar bill. According to the White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, Biden’s Treasury is looking to speed up the process to add abolitionist and freedom fighter Harriet Tubman to the $20 bill, adding that such accomplishment is a proper step in reflecting the country’s “history and diversity.” “The Treasury Department is taking steps to resume efforts to put Harriet Tubman on the front of the new $20 notes,” Psaki said in the press conference. . “It’s important that our notes reflect...
Barack Obama Shares 2020 Playlist, Includes Lil Baby, J. Cole, Travis Scott & More
Source: MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images / Getty Another year is coming to a close, which means plenty of year-end playlists are already being shared. Some lists tend to carry more weight—like that of the United States’ last legitimate President, Barack Obama. Spotify gets the distinction of housing Obama’s curated playlist. President 44’s favorite cuts from 2020 include notable Hip-Hop hits like Megan Thee Stallion and Beyonce’s “Savage Remix” (which is first) and Lil Baby’s “The Bigger Picture.” Other rap joints that made the cut include Goodie’s Mob’s “4 My PPL,” Travis Scott’s “Franchise,” featuring Young Thug & M.I.A., Gunna’s “Sun Came Out,” and J. Cole’s “The Climb Back.” Not a single cut from Griselda, though? Clearly we gotta put Sasha Obama up on game. Prop...
Barack Obama Shares His 30 Favorite Songs of 2020
After revealing the films and TV shows he binged throughout 2020, former president Barack Obama has now revealed what he’s been listening to. As has become tradition, Obama, with the help of his youngest daughter Sasha, has put together a list of his favorite songs from the last 12 months. Included among Obama’s 30-song playlist are Phoebe Bridgers’ “Kyoto” and Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé’s “Savage” remix — both of which made our own list. Also present are Waxahatchee’s “Can’t Do Much”, Dua Lipa’s ‘Levitating” featuring DaBaby, Bruce Springsteen’s “Ghosts”, Bob Dylan’s ‘Goodbye Jimmy Reed”, Jeff Tweedy’s “Love is the King”, and J. Cole’s “The Climb Back”. Other selections include Travis Scott’s “Franchise” featuring M.I.A. and Young Thug, Lido Pimienta’s “Nada”, Bad Bunny’s “La Difícil...
California hospitals overrun even as vaccine is rolled out
Even as high profile figures like U.S. Vice President Mike Pence rolled up their sleeves for COVID-19 vaccinations, patients already ill with the disease crowded emergency rooms and overran intensive care units in California, now a worldwide epicenter. Another 41,000 people tested positive in the most populous U.S. state on Thursday, and 300 died, state public health officials said. In a state with 40 million residents, only about 1,200 intensive care beds remained available by Friday – just 2.1% of the total, the California Department of Public Health said. “We anticipated a surge, but I’m not sure if anyone imagined it would be as bad as it has been,” said Adam Blackstone, a spokesman for the Hospital Association of Southern California. Hospitals are strained under the press of patients,...
Barack Obama Clarifies Defund Police Statement: “That Actually Was Not The Point I Was Making”
Source: – / Getty Former President Barack Obama is setting the record staright regarding his stance on the ideology of defunding the police, after being miquoted during a recent interview. On Tuesday (Dec 16), President O appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and clarified his stance on the matter, stating that the point he was trying to mke was missed by the masses after he was dragged online for seemingly criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement—a takeaway that the former President is calling false. “I have consistently believed that their courage, activism, media-savvy, strategic resolve far exceeds anything I could have done at their age, and I think has shifted the conversation in ways that I would not have even imagined a couple of years ago,” Obama said. In regard...
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris jointly named TIME’s ‘Person of the Year’
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were jointly named Time magazine’s 2020 “Person of the Year” on Thursday, chosen from a list of finalists that included the man Biden vanquished at the polls – President Donald Trump. The Democratic former vice president and his running mate, a California senator whose election broke gender and racial barriers, together “offered restoration and renewal in a single ticket,” Time said in a profile of the pair, published online with its announcement. Following the most tumultuous U.S. presidential campaign in modern times, waged in the throes of a deadly pandemic, economic devastation and a strife-torn national reckoning with racism, Biden and Harris prevailed in an election that drew the highest voter turnout in a century....
Four finalists compete for Time’s Person of the Year for 2020
Time Magazine names its Person of the Year for 2020 on Thursday, choosing the winner from nominees that include healthcare workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic, the racial justice movement and two U.S. presidential election winners. The news magazine will reveal at 10 p.m. Eastern its selection for the title that signifies “who affected the news or our lives the most, for better or worse,” Time said on its website. Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg last year became the youngest individual winner of the accolade. The 16-year-old Swede inspired young people to take action in 2019 against climate change, grabbing headlines when she regularly skipped school to demonstrate outside Swedish parliament in a push for her government to curb carbon emissions. The Person of the Year is usually...
