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Donald Trump is undermining American political institutions in an incredibly troubling way. This past weekend, he claimed that President Obama ordered the phones in Trump Tower in NYC to be tapped in an attempt to find evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.

A series of best-selling books could be written about what happens in a president’s last hours in office. What do they do? Sit in the oval office one last time and spin around in the chair? Crack open a bottle of scotch they got on the first day? We may never truly know. But we have […]

President Barack Obama’s farewell tour has been emotionally draining and full of highs and lows. While it’s customary for the President to leave a letter in the oval office for the next in line, Obama also penned another letter for the American people. 

Barack Obama has already commuted more prison sentences than any other U.S. President. However, he’s not finished doing so with only a few days left in his term. President Obama has commuted the prison sentences of Chelsea Manning and Oscar López Rivera, among more than 200 others. 

With only a few days left before his inauguration, Donald Trump’s approval ratings couldn’t be much lower. According to a CNN/ORC Poll, Trump’s approval ratings before taking office have settled at a lowly 40%, which is a whopping 44% lower than President Barack Obama. 

President Barack Obama bid the country farewell a couple of days ago from his adopted hometown of Chicago. However, last night, First Lady Michelle Obama got her opportunity to deliver her parting words to the country while appearing on The Tonight Show. 

In less than a month, the first Black president of the United States will complete his final term. Undoubtedly, these past eight years under President Barack Obama provided a very powerful sense of representation to Black people who have survived over four centuries of violent dispossession largely in society’s shadows. With Obama occupying the highest […]

In less than a month, the Obama family will be out of the White House and moving on to the next chapters of their lives. While many of will surely miss the presence of President Obama, some of us will miss the First Lady even more. Last night, Michelle Obama sat down for an exclusive […]

Besides claiming that he’ll build a massive wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and banning all Muslims, one of Trump’s biggest campaign promises was a complete overhaul of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. But, following a surge in the program’s enrollment after the election, Trump has backed off of his position. 

We watched the debates. We watched his tweets. We watched him bully and intimidate, and still it did not matter. Donald Trump has won the office of the Presidency, as he emboldened white voters across class categories, telling them that he would take their country back for them and that is what he has done.

This election season has been particularly difficult for black voters. On one side we have Trump – no clarification needed – and on the other we have Hillary Clinton, who has her own history of dismissing black voices. Understandably, many of us feel that we’re stuck between a rock that intends to crush us and […]

Despite being published just a few months after I was born, I first read Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father at 14. It was 2008, and it seemed as though the prospect of electing the nation’s first black president had consumed all of society. It had certainly taken over my family; for some of my […]