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• Equality
• The Arts

Take a look at how President Obama honored this chapter of American history.

• Community Engagement
• Education

Hear directly from one of the My Brother’s Keeper Model Communities on how they achieved a 91 percent graduation rate for students of color.

• Equality
• Defending Democracy

Hear directly from Adrijana Hanušić Bećirović as she talks about human rights and what the Obama Leadership program has meant to her.

• Presidential History
• The Obama Administration

Hear from President Obama as he reflects on this milestone moment.

• Building the Center
• Barack Obama

Get a sneak peek at a four-story digital wall that will celebrate the “Power of Words” and pay homage to the first digital President.

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

Get to know two young men carrying forward the legacy of MBK

• Health & Wellbeing
• Presidential History

Understand the impact of this historic legislation for American families and share your story.

• Barack Obama
• Presidential History

Meet the woman behind the famous chant that inspired the nation.

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Education

Read Hay’s story from Vietnam.

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Leaders

Thuba’s story

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Education

Laxmi’s story

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Equality

Rebecca’s story

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Education

Watch Diana’s story from Malawi.

• Barack Obama
• Presidential History

On June 15, 2012, President Obama announced DACA, an executive action to lift the shadow of deportation for young people who came to the United States as undocumented immigrants.

• Defending Democracy
• Leaders

• Michelle Obama
• Building the Center

From our earliest days of planning, we always knew we wanted to have a Fruit & Vegetable Garden at the future Obama Presidential Center

• Building the Center
• Michelle Obama

Learn more about Michelle Obama's mother, Marian Robinson, and how she will be honored at the Obama Presidential Center.

• Defending Democracy
• Barack Obama

Hear President Obama share his vision for the internet in this keynote address at Stanford University.

• MBK Alliance
• Health & Wellbeing

Here at the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, we support communities of color across the United States and Puerto Rico that are taking action to create systemic solutions to the most pressing issues facing boys and young men of color.

• Barack Obama
• Presidential History

12 years ago today, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law.

• Presidential History
• Changemakers

A look back at the 2007 announcement in Springfield and the campaign that inspired so many to serve.

• First Look
• Building the Center

In a special message, former First Lady Michelle Obama reflects on the life of Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton, who was killed by gun violence in 2013. She also shared how the late teen will be honored at the Obama Presidential Center.

• Barack Obama
• Michelle Obama

Celebrating our first five years with five ways we’re making a difference

• Presidential History
• Programs

Five years later, a look back at President Obama’s farewell address and the call to action that drives our mission at the Foundation

• Building the Center
• Chicago

Revisit the highlights from our work in 2021, which included breaking ground on the Obama Presidential Center, recognizing important milestones from President and Mrs. Obama’s time in office, empowering and connecting leaders around the world, and more.

• Sustainability
• Barack Obama

After delivering remarks during COP26 in Glasgow, President Obama sat down with a group of emerging leaders from around the world who are doing their part to protect the planet. Check out what they discussed.

• Education
• Presidential History

This week, 100kin10 announced they exceeded a goal President Obama set in 2011: to recruit and train 100,000 new STEM teachers by 2021.

• Chicago
• Changemakers

Read Michael Strautmanis' reflection on his friend and mentor, Dr. Timuel Black, who passed away on Wednesday, October 13.

• Alumni
• The Obama Administration

Thanks for tuning in for a special conversation between President Obama, David Plouffe, and Obama Alumni Association members.

• MBK Alliance
• Barack Obama

Father's Day

• Barack Obama
• Chicago

President Obama recently spent a day on the South Side of Chicago with some of the Obama Presidential Center's future neighbors.

• Defending Democracy
• Presidential History

Ten years after the raid against Osama bin Laden, watch a special conversation between President Obama and Admiral William McRaven, the commander of the special operations forces who executed the historic operation.

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

• Health & Wellbeing
• Presidential History

Looking back, it’s easy to forget just how broken our health insurance system was before the Affordable Care Act.

• The Arts
• Building the Center

Watch talented Chicago poet Leslé Honoré recite "Bridges," a poem inspired by the powerful speech President Obama delivered on the 50th anniversary of the marches from Montgomery to Selma. An excerpt from the speech will appear on the exterior of the Obama

• The Arts
• Barack Obama

Artists Kehinde Wiley of Brooklyn, New York, and Amy Sherald of Baltimore, Maryland, were selected to paint President Obama and Mrs. Obama respectively