President Obama will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington with a speech at the Lincoln Memorial, and the comparisons to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. seem inevitable.
Samsung confirmed Tuesday that it had helped Ortiz take Tuesday's selfie with President Obama. The mobile provider then promoted the picture on Twitter to the company's 5.2 million followers.
Samsung confirmed Tuesday that it had helped Ortiz take Tuesday's selfie with President Obama. The mobile provider then promoted the picture on Twitter to the company's 5.2 million followers.
On the fifth anniversary of Barack Obama's acceptance address, David Edgar explores what unites - and divides - the great American speeches of the last 150 years (Guardian)
The White House has increasingly excluded news photographers from Obama's official events and is instead releasing images taken by in-house photographers, who are government employees.
"This voice I speak with these days, this English voice with its rounded vowels and consonants in more or less the right place-this is not the voice of my childhood." Writer Zadie Smith discusses "voice adaptation" or code-switching, and Obama's English.