Context: Barack Obama wins the 2008 US Presidential election, the first time that a person labelled Black has been elected to this position.
Nov'20 What's Going On
November 14, 2020
18.11.2020: DAVID OLUSOGA INTERVIEWS BARACK OBAMA, BBC1, 7.30 P.M.
In the 30-minute special from BBC Studios Production, Barack Obama will discuss the first volume of his presidential memoirs, A Promised Land,
Listening Tree Narrative (LT)
November 14, 2020
BARACK OBAMA: READ OR LISTEN TO THE PREFACE OF HIS NEW BOOK, ‘THE PROMISED LAND’
At the end of my presidency, Michelle and I boarded Air Force One for the last time and traveled west for a long-deferred break. The mood on the plane was bittersweet. Both of us were drained, physically and emotionally, not only by the labors of the previous eight years but by the unexpected results of …
Listening Tree Narrative (LT)
August 4, 2020
Barack Obama: Eulogy for John Lewis
Good speech although it would have meant more if he had said it and tried to act on it, while in office.