Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2008 election of Barack Obama — a charismatic, Harvard-trained former Chicago community organizer whose mother was White and ...

Barack and Michelle Obama marked the opening of the Obama Presidential Center with a joint interview reflecting on their Chicago roots and nearly 34-year marriage. The couple revisited early dating ...

My household recently received a letter from former president Barack Obama requesting money for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to be used to ...

Obama said his greatest hope was that children would grow up believing the presidency was within reach, regardless of race. Barack Obama is speaking candidly about the weight and meaning of his place ...

Don't call it a library. The $1 billion Obama Presidential Center opened with huge fanfare last week in a park near the shore of Lake Michigan, but critics say what the public thinks is a library will ...

Barack Obama – his policies and his posture – just won a third term. Joe Biden will be president because of his close association with Obama, because he espoused many of the same centrist policies and ...

Wall Street remembers Barack Obama as the president who inherited a financial crisis and left office with the debt roughly ...

Chicago is now home to Barack Obama’s new political fighters. As the midterms approach, we head to the city to see how his legacy is shaping politics today. Over the course of a weekend, about 100 of ...

Towering over a low-income area of Chicago, and wrapped in a speech that’s hard to decipher, this controversial monolith feels like a menacing sci-fi HQ. Is it a monument – or a mausoleum? The ...

The former president and first lady reflect on race and the symbolism of his presidency in this week's PEOPLE cover story Janine Rubenstein is Editor-at-Large at PEOPLE and host of PEOPLE Every Day ...