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Michelle Obama, her eyes watering with tears and her mouth pursed, sits in a room full of people. Bright spotlights are on the back wall. Everyone looks dressed in formal suit attire.
  • Equality
  • Presidential History
15 Years Later: a look back at the “More Perfect Union” speech

When then-Senator Obama delivered a speech titled “A More Perfect Union” 15 years ago today, it became known simply as the “speech on race.”

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A young Black boy reaches out to touch President Obama's hair. They are in the oval office and a two other adults and one child stand to the side.
  • Barack Obama
  • Presidential History
President Obama reunites with the young man from one of his favorite photos

Then five-year-old Jacob Philadelphia is graduating high school as part of the class of 2022. Watch his reunion with President Obama.

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  • MBK Alliance
  • Youth
May 2021 My Brother’s Keeper Alliance newsletter
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  • MBK Alliance
  • Youth
December 2020 My Brother’s Keeper Alliance newsletter

I Am My Brother's Keeper

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A rendering of the Obama Presidential Center campus.
  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Stories
David Simas reflects on the foundation’s path forward

"If ever there was a time in which strengthening our communities, supporting fresh leadership, building trust, and taking care of each other were paramount, now is that time." Read the message Obama Foundation CEO David Simas shared in our 2019 Annual Repo

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  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Stories
An update on how we’re responding in this time of need

Read a message from Obama Foundation Chief Executive Officer David Simas and Obama Foundation President Wally Adeyemo on how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the Foundation's work.

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  • Barack Obama
  • Health & Wellbeing
Read President Obama’s message: This shouldn’t be normal

Today, we sent the message below to our email subscribers about President Obama’s response to the tragic killing of George Floyd.

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  • Michelle Obama
A message from Michelle Obama: “Join me to celebrate International Women’s Day”

In honor of International Women's Day, Mrs. Obama shared the note below with our email subscribers

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A woman with a light skin tone walks her young daughter to school.
  • Girls Opportunity Alliance
  • Education
The Girls Opportunity Alliance’s back-to-school challenge

Earlier today, Tiffany Drake, Executive Director of the Girls Opportunity Alliance, sent the message below to our email list in honor of her daughter’s first day of school and to lift up the importance of education for girls around the world.

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Charles Daniels, is a Black man with a deep skin tone with a buzz cut. He has glasses, a moustache and goatee with grey streaks, and a olive colored button up shirt. He is the CEO of Fathers' UpLift.
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  • Obama Fellows
Celebrating the power of fathers

To celebrate Father’s Day, we sent the message below to our email list highlighting the work of one of our 2019 Fellows, Charles Daniels.

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A young boy with a light skin tone and black hair wears a red shirt. Next to him is a woman with a light skin tone, blue hair, and glasses wearing business attire. Lastly, another woman with a light skin tone and red glasses wears a plaid shirt. The three of them stand in front of a historic building smiling. Below the image, a text reads "Ana Matia Gonzalez-Forero"
  • Leaders
  • Changemakers
Celebrating moms around the world

This Mother's Day, we sent the message below to our full email list lifting up the incredible moms in our programs who are making their communities a better place for all—and raising the next generation of changemakers at the same time.

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First Lady Michelle Obama, in celebration of International Day of the Girl and Let Girls Learn, participates in Glamour's "A Brighter Future: A Global Conversation on Girls Education" in conjunction with Glamour's "The Girl Project." Actress and activist Y
  • Changemakers
  • Global Reach
Celebrating International Women’s Day

To celebrate International Women's Day, we sent the message below to our email list lifting up the work of Obama Foundation program participants who are carrying forward the hard work of helping women and girls around the world chase their dreams.

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The OPC will be a campus for all seasons, with the Great Lawn doubling as a sledding hill during the winter months.
  • Building the Center
  • Chicago
Happy holidays from the Obama Foundation!

As people across the country and around the world come together to celebrate the joy of the holiday season, we wanted to share with you the design of this year's holiday card.

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Artist, actor, and activist Common talks to a man with a deep skin tone at a prison.
  • MBK Alliance
  • Programs
An update from MBKA: Steph Curry’s custom kicks, program spotlight, and more

The My Brother's Keeper Alliance, an initiative of the Obama Foundation, sends out monthly newsletters to all those interested in addressing persistent opportunity gaps facing boys and young men of color and to ensure all youth can reach their full potenti

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Artist, actor, and activist Common talks to a man with a deep skin tone at a prison.
  • MBK Alliance
  • Watch
My Brother’s Keeper Alliance inaugural Town Hall featuring Common

After an incredibly powerful and thought-provoking Town Hall conversation with Common, , MBKA advisory council chair, Broderick Johnson, and executive director of MBK Alliance, Michael Smith, sent the note below to everyone who tuned in

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A group of people with various skin tones and ages at a parade, wearing a gray shirt with the Obama Foundation rising sun logo on the chest.
  • Chicago
  • Illinois
Annual report 2017: the story of our first year

David Simas sends a message to the Obama Foundation email list announcing the story of our first year — the annual report for 2017.

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President Obama holds the hand of a elderly woman with a medium deep skin toned. She lays on a bright yellow couch with her legs out in front of her.
  • Changemakers
  • Barack Obama
President Obama: Mandela’s most important lesson

President Obama sent a message to the Obama Foundation email list on Mandela Day and Madiba's legacy, and his reflections on the inspiring young people he met at the Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa convening in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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On Mandela Day, Wednesday, July 18, the Obama Foundation and The Honeycomb Project team up on the shores of Lake Michigan for a sunset beach clean up. We measure beach health, clear the boardwalk, collect garbage, and make a positive impact at Rainbow in t
  • Community Engagement
  • Chicago
Celebrating Mandela Day in Chicago

As the 200 emerging African leaders we brought together as part of our Leaders: Africa convening to exchange ideas on how to create positive change in their communities carried out a service project to celebrate Mandela Day, we did the same right here in C

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President Obama makes a descriptive post on Facebook talking about Africa and his endevours there.
  • Obama Picks
  • Leaders
Passing along President Obama’s summer reading list

Earlier today, Bernadette Meehan shared the message below with our full email list ahead of the Leaders: Africa convening in Johannesburg, South Africa July 14-18

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Giving Tuesday: “Help us change the world”

This Giving Tuesday, David Simas, CEO of the Obama Foundation, sent the message below to the Foundation email list

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President Barack Obama delivers remarks during a Veterans Day ceremony at the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, Nov. 11, 2015.(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
  • Barack Obama
  • Changemakers
Email from President Obama: “What our veterans teach us”

This Veterans Day, President Obama sent a message to the Obama Foundation email list lifting up the service and sacrifice of our veterans, and the thousands of people who are doing their part to make positive change in their communities

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Former President Barack Obama reads public correspondence in his private office in Washington, DC Sept. 1, 2017. (Photo: Chuck Kennedy)
  • Barack Obama
  • Programs
Email from President Obama: “This is where we go from here”

This morning, President Obama sent a message to the Obama Foundation email list to announce our next steps, including the first set of projects for Fall 2017 and the inaugural Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago

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