The Children of Barack Obama

Portrait of Barack Obama’s Family

Barack Obama met Michelle Robinson in 1989, a year after she graduated from Harvard Law School and had barely started her legal career. She left law to work in academia and for nonprofits after they married in 1992, while also raising their two children and eventually becoming First Lady. Discover how Michelle … Read more

The Presidency of Barack Obama

Portrait of Barack Obama

First African American President Barack Obama, the first multiracial president, the first non-white president, and the firstborn in Hawaii. Barack Obama’s presidency began on January 20, 2009, with his first inauguration, and ended on January 20, 2017. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, was elected president after defeating Republican nominee John McCain in the … Read more

Barack Obama Childhood, Education and Careers

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II, born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. His parents, Ann Dunham, a white American from Kansas, and Barack Obama Sr., a black Kenyan learning in the United States, met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama’s father abandoned the family when Obama was two years old and … Read more

The First Lady of Barack Obama

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Michelle Obama and U.S. President Barack Obama’s wife is considered the first African-American First Lady of the United States. She is the forty-fourth First Lady and the third with a postgraduate degree. Michelle is a lawyer by training. First lady Michelle Obama became a female role model in America and worldwide as … Read more

The Brief Biography of Barack Obama

Barack Obama

The fortieth president of the United States, Barack Obama, and the country’s first African-American president. In 2008 through 2012, he was elected to two terms. Obama was born and reared in Hawaii, the son of Kenyan and Kansas parents. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and his law degree from … Read more