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Podcast Host, Michelle Obama: How Podcasting Became A Multi-Billion Dollar Industry
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IMPACT, TOP FOUR

Podcast Host, Michelle Obama: How Podcasting Became A Multi-Billion Dollar Industry

“You kind of fail your way to success,” observed Matt Lieber, head of podcast operations at Spotify, at this year’s Audiocraft festival, an annual weekend of panels about podcasting. Normally held in Sydney, this year, thanks to COVID-19, the festival shifted online. Lieber was talking about StartUp, his podcast about establishing Gimlet Media in 2014. Lieber and his business partner, Alex Blumberg, wanted to develop a podcast studio that would become “the HBO of audio”. Last year, Gimlet hit the jackpot. It was acquired by Spotify for US$230 million (A$322 million). While podcasts have been alive on the internet since 2004 (“But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting? GuerillaMedia?” asked the Guardian), 2014’s Serial is largely credited with starting a new boom for the form. Seria...
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The Inspiration To Roar – Michelle Obama
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The Inspiration To Roar – Michelle Obama

Black women have always been an indispensable and fundamental bridge connecting, the elements and conditions of every day living to purpose, strength and determination. Working women were confirmed by the Feminist Movement that is it okay to be every woman successfully juggling multiple roles of wife, mother, caregiver and career while negotiating the obstacles of race, class and gender. In the past decade, there have been phenomenal achievements by Black women as Entrepreneurs Scientists, roles in technology, in the board room as executives, in many areas as athletes, world famous entertainers, television talk show hosts, moguls and actors in spite of socioeconomic indicators showing that Black women are still straggling to catch up to their White counterparts. A woman's role today can ...
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The Anarchy – One Of President Barack Obama’s Favorite Books Of The Year
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BOOKS

The Anarchy – One Of President Barack Obama’s Favorite Books Of The Year

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR "Superb … A vivid and richly detailed story … worth reading by everyone." -The New York Times Book Review. From the bestselling author of Return of a King, the story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country. In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army. The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional company and became something much more unusual: an international corporation transformed into an aggressive colonial power. Over the cours...
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Sanders exit opened door for Obama to endorse Biden – and offer up his rhetorical skills
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POLITICS, VIDEO REELS

Sanders exit opened door for Obama to endorse Biden – and offer up his rhetorical skills

The three endorsements Joe Biden needed most came within the space of 48 hours. First, Bernie Sanders backed his former Democratic rival for president on April 13, effectively ending the Democratic primary. The emergence of a consensus candidate appeared to liberate former president Barack Obama, who a day later reentered American politics proper, after dedicating three years to staying largely below the political radar. In a 12-minute YouTube video, Obama declared he was “proud to endorse Joe Biden” adding, “I believe Joe has the qualities we need in a president.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren followed suit on April 15, pledging her own support to Biden. The emergence of a consensus candidate – reportedly after Obama held a series of conversations with Sanders – allowed the former president to...
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Michelle Obama: ‘I can’t make people not afraid of black people’

Michelle LeVaughn Robinson Obama Why the GOP march of mad hatters poses a threat to our Democracy Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Dole call for national unity at Heroes and History Makers event Obama to deliver remarks at Cummings's funeral MORE says she "can't make people not afraid of black people," but can "pick away at the scabs of discrimination" through her life's work. "As people doubted us coming through — 'Are you Princeton material? Can you really make the grade?' Can you cut it?' — what do you do in those instances? All you can do is put your head down and do the work and let the work, your truth, speak for itself," the former first lady said Tuesday at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago. "I can't make people not afraid of black people. I don't know what's going on. I can't ex...
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Malia Obama Shows Off Sick Trick Her Mom Taught Her While Celebrating National Holiday Named After Her

Malia Obama Shows Off Sick Trick Her Mom Taught Her While Celebrating National Holiday Named After Her It is the final weeks of Malia Obama’s gap year before she begins Harvard in the Fall, and she is not wasting a moment of it. Malia has been quite the social butterfly over the last year ever since turning 18 years old and has been caught hobnobbing with celebrities and socialites on a regular basis. Malia’s actions have gained her celebrity status from the impressionable youth around the country. Now, these young people are pushing for a National Holiday to be renamed in Malia’s honor which has conservatives reeling. The Obama family reached a celebrity status during Barack Obama’s term as president. The family’s inner circle often included and was surrounded by professional athletes, r...
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The Inspiration to Roar – Michelle Obama
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Journalism

The Inspiration to Roar – Michelle Obama

Black women have always been an indispensable and fundamental bridge connecting, the elements and conditions of every day living to purpose, strength and determination. Working women were confirmed by the Feminist Movement that is it okay to be every woman successfully juggling multiple roles of wife, mother, caregiver and career while negotiating the obstacles of race, class and gender. In the past decade, there have been phenomenal achievements by Black women as Entrepreneurs Scientists, roles in technology, in the board room as executives, in many areas as athletes, world famous entertainers, television talk show hosts, moguls and actors in spite of socioeconomic indicators showing that Black women are still straggling to catch up to their White counterparts. A woman's role today can ...
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President Obama Slow-Jams the News, Mocks Trump
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President Obama Slow-Jams the News, Mocks Trump

Just hours after formally endorsing Hillary Clinton as the person best suited to take over the Oval Office, President Barack Obama revisited the slow jam news session that he and Fallon began in 2012, when the commander in chief made his first appearance alongside the former SNL funnyman on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.And the duo's Al Green–style news fest was even funnier this time around as they looked back at the president's administration successes. Source: President Obama Slow-Jams the News, Mocks Trump - Us Weekly
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The Obama Sisters Through The Years
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The Obama Sisters Through The Years

It's been over eight years since Sasha and Malia Obama took office as the "first kids" of the United States. But the Obama sisters aren't kids anymore. Recently, Sasha and Malia turned 14 and 17, respectively. Following in the footsteps of their fashionable First Mom, the Obama sisters have become fashion icons on their own, transforming from cute tweens to sophisticated teens right before our eyes. Here are some great moments in Obama sister style through the years. Look out, Michelle—your girls are hot on your heels as the best-dressed ladies in America. Getty Images Read More: http://www.looper.com/4361/obama-sisters-years/?utm_campaign=clip Source: The Obama Sisters Through The Years
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