The exterior of the Hayward Gallery, part of the Southbank Centre. The brutalist-style building was designed by a team led by Norman Engleback in the late 1960s. Universal Images Group | Getty Images LONDON — From Michelle Obama to Anish Kapoor and Tracey Emin to Nina Simone, London’s Southbank Centre has featured them all, and … Read more
Kamala Harris accepted her party’s presidential nomination on a glitzy final night in Chicago. (File) Chicago: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump set out Friday on the final 10-week sprint to election day, with the Democrat surging after an electrifying speech accepting the Democratic Party nomination. Less than three weeks before the presidential debate between the … Read more
Jon Stewart isn’t going to let Donald Trump take back the terrible things he’s said about the Obama family over the years. During Thursday’s episode of his podcast, “The Weekly Show,” Stewart praised former first lady Michelle Obama’s barn burner at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night, noting how much ugliness she and her … Read more
Former first lady Michelle Obama issued a blistering assessment of the Donald Trump years during a rousing speech for the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday, delivering a revamped version of her famed catchphrase for the modern political era. Obama first delivered the now-iconic line — “When they go low, … Read more
The Democratic National Convention on Tuesday centered on a star-powered roll call naming Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as their candidates. Then, they turned up the heat on Donald Trump. Michelle Obama brought down the house with a rousing speech that had numerous high points across its nearly 22 minutes. But … Read more
CHICAGO — On the second night of the Democratic National Convention, the party tried to counter the GOP’s four-day long pitch in Milwaukee last month in a single night. The RNC featured paeans to Trump. Democrats got his former employees and supporters to belittle him. The RNC had Teamsters President Sean O’Brien deliver a speech. … Read more
Former First Lady Michelle Obama directly challenged former President Donald Trump over his decade-long effort to vilify the Obamas in her speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday. “Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us,” Obama said. “Doubling down on ugly, misogynistic, racist lies as … Read more
Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on stage during the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 20, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images After an opening night that was dedicated to thanking President Joe Biden, Tuesday’s Democratic National Convention speakers barely mentioned the president at … Read more
In 2007, a young biracial senator from Illinois named Barack Obama was trying to convince Black voters that he was one of them. I traveled to South Carolina to see a set of speeches that would become an historical inflection point — Oprah and Michelle code-switching to tell the state’s Black Democrats that he was … Read more
Former President Barack Obama endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential run Friday, the latest in a string of high-profile politicians to throw their weight behind the clear front-runner for the Democratic Party nomination. In a video statement, both the former president and his wife, Michelle Obama, gave their support to Harris and committed to doing … Read more
