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Jun

Early Bird Chat

Categories: All Photos, All Videos and Michelle Obama
Tags: Barack Obama, chat, gershwin, Malia, Marian, Marian Robinson, mccartney, Michelle, Michelle By Paul McCartney, Michelle Obama, Music, nancy, Nancy Pelosi, Paul, Paul McCartney, pbs, PBS White House Performances, pelosi, President, prize, robinson, Sasha, song

June 2, 2025 - Pete Souza: “Paul McCartney sings “Michelle” to First Lady Michelle Obama during an event honoring McCartney as winner of the annual Gershwin Prize. I knew this was a special moment but didn’t have a full realization of its significance until when I later heard the President telling others that his wife could never have imagined as an African-American girl growing up on the South side of Chicago that someday a Beatle would be singing this song to her as First Lady of the United States.”

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MoooOOOooorning - Happy Monday!

Aug

President Obama’s PBS Interview

By Chipsticks 139 Comments

Categories: All Photos and Let Freedom Ring 2013
Tags: freedom, interview, King, let, luther, martin, Obama, pbs, President, ring, syria

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Aug

Coming Up

By Chipsticks 117 Comments

Categories: All Photos, All Videos and Michelle Obama
Tags: March, Michelle, Obama, on, pbs, powerbroke, the, washington, whitney, young

4:0 EDT: First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at a screening of “The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights”

White House Live

Trailer:

Read about Whitney Young here

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PBS: ‘The March’ premieres tonight at 9:0 ET/PT

‘The March’ is the story of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, told by the people who organized and participated in it. It includes interviews with some of the key actors; members of the inner circles of the core organizational groups; Hollywood supporters and civil rights campaigners; John F. Kennedy administration officials; and the ordinary people who became part of the crowd of thousands, who thronged to Washington D.C. by all and every means: plane, bus and car.

More here