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Barack Obama

Barack Obama served as the 44th president of the United States of America from 2009 until 2017

October 2021

  • Illinois U.S. Senator-elect Barack Obama, holding his daughter Milia, 6, acknowledges applause from supporters through a flurry of confetti after giving his acceptance speech in Chicago, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004. Obama, only the fifth black U.S. Senator to be elected in history, defeated Republican Alan Keyes in the nation's first Senate race with two black major-party candidates. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

    Barack Obama on how uncovering his past helped him plan his future

    The former president of the United States was at a crossroads in his life when he wrote his first book, Dreams from My Father

November 2020

  • Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his family arrive on stage for his election night victory rally at Grant Park on November 4, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. Americans emphatically elected Obama as their first black president in a transformational election which will reshape US politics and the US role on the world stage. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

    Barack Obama on the moment he won the presidency – exclusive extract

  • Head shot of former US president Barack Obama against blue background

    Barack Obama reads an excerpt from his memoir – audio

July 2020

  • ‘I’ve come here today because I like so many Americans owe a great debt to John Lewis and his forceful vision of freedom.’

    Barack Obama: John Lewis knew the march is not yet over, the race is not yet won

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    In a transcript of his remarks at the congressman’s funeral, the former president calls on Americans to follow Lewis’s lead

September 2018

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    Barack Obama: you need to vote because our democracy depends on it

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    In a rare speech on Friday at the University of Illinois, the former president delivered a pointed critique of the Trump presidency. Here is an abridged version of it

May 2017

  • US President Barack Obama speaking in July 2016

    The long read
    Barack Obama on food and climate change: ‘We can still act and it won’t be too late’

    The long read: The former president addresses some of the biggest problems facing the world, and what we can do about them

January 2017

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    'We've shown that we can': Obama's last letter to the American people – full text

    The outgoing US president reflects on the state of the nation ‘after eight years of progress’ while looking ahead to what can be accomplished in the future

July 2016

  • US President Barack Obama waves during the third night of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 27, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / Robyn BECKROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images

    'Don't Boo. Vote': Barack Obama's 2016 Democratic convention speech in full

    This is the transcript as provided by the White House of the president’s address to the DNC

April 2016

  • Illustration from a stip in The Complete Peanuts 1999-2000 Peanuts Charlie Brown Snoopy and co cartoon book press image supplied by becca@canongate.co.uk

    Barack Obama on Peanuts: an American treasure

    Peanuts was our own daily security blanket, even if Lucy’s advice isn’t very good

June 2015

  • President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks during services honoring the life of Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Friday, June 26, 2015, at the College of Charleston TD Arena in Charleston, S.C.. Pinckney was one of the nine people killed in the shooting at Emanuel AME Church last week in Charleston. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Obama speaks at Clementa Pinckney funeral – read the eulogy in full

    The president makes a case for the tearing down of the Confederate flag and addresses ‘mayhem’ of gun violence in eulogy for pastor killed in Charleston
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    Obama on Charleston: 'This does not happen in other advanced countries'

    President Obama spoke about the Charleston, South Carolina shooting from the White House on Thursday, shortly after noon – here is the full transcript
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    Obama: US-led coalition ready to ramp up training of Iraqi forces - video

    The US president said more progress was needed to stem the flow of foreign fighters into Syria and Iraq, and that all countries in the coalition were ready to do more to train Iraqi security forces

December 2013

  • Barack Obama in Mandela's cell

    Barack Obama: Nelson Mandela was a symbol for justice, equality and dignity

    Barack Obama

    Barack Obama: The story told by Mandela's life is not one of infallible human beings and inevitable triumph. It is the story of a man who was willing to risk his own life for what he believed in

July 2013

  • US President Barack Obama speaks about Trayvon Martin and race

    America is not a post-racial society

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    Barack Obama: In the wake of the Trayvon Martin tragedy, we should ask: am I wringing as much bias out of myself as I can?

January 2013

  • Policeman at scene of murder in Chicago

    Girl who performed at Obama's inauguration shot dead - video

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    Obama giving £98 million aid to Syria - video

March 2012

  • United States and Great Britain: an essential relationship

    Barack Obama and David Cameron

    Barack Obama and David Cameron: Our countries' alliance is a partnership of the heart – we count on each other and the world counts on that alliance

February 2012

  • People and power
    Stan Greenberg: 'Republican candidate may not be winner of primaries' – video

    Economist and Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg predicts leading conservative players will select the GOP presidential candidate after Super Tuesday

December 2011

  • Obama welcomes US troops home from Iraq - video

    The US president told an audience of soldiers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the final pullout after nearly nine years of conflict is an historic moment, and that the conflict was a success

June 2011

  • Full text of Barack Obama's address on withdrawal from Afghanistan

    US president says Americans have 'learned anew the profound cost of war' and pledges to 'reclaim the American dream'

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