The+Presidency+of+Barack+Obama


 * [[image:timeline2_rus.svg.png link="@https://millercenter.org/president/barack-obama/key-events"]]Barack Obama: Key Events**


 * [[image:WhiteHouseSouthFacade.JPG width="80" height="53"]]44th U.S. President and the First African American Ever elected to the Presidency**
 * Click here for an outline of the strive for the 2008 Presidential Candidacy and a brief video chronicling what winning the election meant for America.
 * History.com presents an Oral History of the Obama years featuring the former President himself and 24 other former cabinet members
 * Click here for a Crash Course U.S. History video detailing the Time Obama spent as President and what he did in office.
 * An article on what Obama's presidency meant to African American Millennials


 * Major Events of Obama's Presidency**
 * Obama signs first executive order to close Guantanamo Bay Prison, however it would remain open after he left office
 * The signing of his first bill, The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help close the gender pay gap.
 * Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009
 * In 2010 Obama pledges 900 million dollars to under-performing schools to help them reform
 * The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is passed in 2010
 * Obama repeals the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy which allows men and women to be openly lesbian, gay, or bisexual while serving in the Armed Forces
 * Osama Bin Laden in killed in 2011 in Pakistan by U.S. Military Forces
 * 2012- Obama is re-elected
 * Obama increases minimum wage for federal workers from $7.25 to $10.10 in 2014
 * In 2015 the Supreme Court Upholds the Right to Same Sex Marriage

How America Changed During Barack Obama's Presidency, Pew Research Center

Barack Obama Daily Job Approval, Gallup poll



Michelle Obama

 * [[image:Quill_and_ink.png link="@https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/michelle-obama/"]]Brief Biography from WhiteHouse.gov**


 * Initiatives Started by Michelle Obama:**

[|Let's Move] is dedicated to solving childhood obesity by focusing on making healthy, affordable food and physical exercise more accessible, especially in African American and Hispanic communities where almost 40% of children are overweight or obese.

A White House Garden was planted by Michelle Obama. Listen to [|this] podcast about her book, called American Grown, that she wrote about the garden.

[|Let Girls Learn] seeks to address the challenges that prevent adolescent girls across the world from getting a high quality education.


 * "I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves."** Michele Obama said this quote at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, speaking forthright about the long history of issues of race in the United States. [|Here is a link] to a podcast discussing what Michele Obama was highlighting in her speech with this quote and the history behind it.


 * "Girls, and girls of color, will see an image of someone who looks like them hanging on the walls of this great American institution...And I know the kind of impact that will have on their lives because I was one of those girls."**- Michelle Obama

It has been a tradition that at the end of each presidency, an artist is commissioned to create a portrait of the President and First Lady. A complete collection of these portraits are displayed in the White House and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. Amy Sherald is the artists that painted the portrait of Michelle Obama. Here is a [|link] to a podcast in which she describes the process of painting Michelle Obama's portrait.