President Obama

In an open letter, Legend asks the president to grant “as many clemencies as possible” to those who are in federal prisons for non-violent drug offenses.

But why do they have to leave?

Many Black folks had high expectations when President Obama entered the White House. Where those expectations too high?

“Attitudes about my presidency among whites in northern states are very different from whites in southern states,” POTUS told CNN.

Research on left-handed people points to their heightened sense of resiliency, since most of their life is spent re-adjusting and acclimating to a holistically right-handed world.

President Obama says his daughters, Sasha and Malia Obama, are “ready to get out of the nest. We don’t think they’re ready, but they certainly think they’re ready.”

If I had my doubts there would be a Black president in my lifetime, I couldn’t even begin to fathom the day when I would be able to utter the words, “This is my husband, Andrew.”

In his final national security speech as commander-in-chief, Obama touts his counterterrorism policy wins. The president also cautioned Donald Trump against following through on his campaign rhetoric.

Attorney General of California Kamala Harris, who became the second Black woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate, and former Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown are among leaders scheduled to serve in Congress in 2017.

On November 4, 2008, Black women hit the main stage. And with Barack Obama’s inauguration that January, America would be required to stare in the face of what it had hated for centuries. It would have to recognize Black leadership, Black intelligence, Black beauty and Black love.

Republican senators are trying to ensure that his administration doesn’t bring in an influx of new hires before Donald Trump takes office.

Today, if you drive around any major sub-Saharan city you’ll find the Obama family on posters, framed newspaper clippings in barbershops and 6-foot paintings sold on the roadside. But expectations of his how his tenure would translate to policy as multifaceted as the continent itself.