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Former President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally on Nov. 5, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Obama to announce expansion of young leaders program to U.S.

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In this Tuesday, July 23, 2019, file photo, activist Jose Reuena, center in back row, holds a placard during a news conference and rally in Chicago. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky)

Obama Presidential Library could force South Side Chicago residents from neighborhood, some fear

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In this Tuesday, July 23, 2019 photo, activist Jose Reuena, center in back row, holds a placard during a news conference and rally in Chicago. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky)

Obama library brings elation but also fear of displacement

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Obama Foundation names former economic adviser as president

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Obama Foundation selects 32 scholars to study in Chicago

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Planned Obama Presidential Center clears another hurdle

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Obama Foundation aims to boost education of girls worldwide

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Obama Foundation raised nearly $233M in 2017

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FILE -- In this Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, file photo, former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to crowds attending the memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela, background, in Soweto, Johannesburg. In a speech marking the 100th birthday of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela on Tuesday, July 17, 2018, former U.S. President Barack Obama will urge youth around the world to work for human rights and fair societies, highlighting the late South African leader's example of persevering in the struggle for democracy and equal rights for all. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Obama to make rare high-profile speech on Mandela’s legacy

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2017, file photo, former President Barack Obama speaks at a community event on the Presidential Center at the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago. The Obama Presidential Center will not be a part of the presidential library network operated by the National Archives and Records Administration. The former president has said construction of the center on Chicago's South Side would take about four years. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Obama Presidential Center protesters removed from Chicago Plan Commission meeting

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks in an event sponsored by a Japanese nonprofit group, in Tokyo, Sunday, March 25, 2018. Obama said negotiations with North Korea on its nuclear weapons program are difficult, partly because the country's isolation minimizes possible leverage, such as trade and travel sanctions against Pyongyang. (AP Photo)

Obama hopes to aid ‘human progress’ by creating ‘a million young Barack Obamas’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Obama Foundation announces master’s degree program

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President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks during his farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago on Jan. 10, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Barack Obama targeted by Chicago organizers: ‘He forgot the community got him where he is’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Former President Barack Obama address the participants at a summit on climate change involving mayors from around the globe in Chicago on Dec. 5, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

University of Chicago symposium aims to ‘slow down’ Obama library development

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

Former President Barack Obama speaks at a community event on the Presidential Center at the South Shore Cultural Center, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, in Chicago. The Obama Foundation unveiled plans for the former president's lakefront presidential center, showcasing renderings and a model at an event where Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama were expected to give more details. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) ** FILE **

University of Chicago faculty tell Obama to move presidential library

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

"One of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases," said former President Barack Obama. He said that leaders should use the internet responsibly. (Associated Press)

Obama challenges Trump on Obamacare, Paris climate pact

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama, with Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, center, and Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez, speaks during a meeting with members of his economic team in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 4, 2016. Obama spoke about U.S. employers adding 242,000 workers in February, driving another solid month for the resilient American job market. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama Foundation’s newest director a Paradise Papers billionaire

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 3, 2017, file photo, former President Barack Obama speaks at a community event on the Presidential Center at the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago. Obama announced Sept. 13, he plans to invite civic leaders to Chicago next month to exchange ideas and plan ways to solve some of the world's common problems. The inaugural Obama Foundation “leadership summit will be a place to gather and learn from one another, and then go back to your communities to lead others in the hard work of change,” Obama said in a video and email released to supporters. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Obama to bring civic leaders to Chicago in October

By JESSE J. HOLLAND - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama meets with civil rights leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. From left are, Attorney General Loretta Lynch; Brittany Packnett, of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing and Co-Founder of We The Protestors and Campaign Zero; the president; Rep, John Lewis, D-Ga., and Senior White House Adviser Valerie Jarrett. Democrats and left-leaning groups are turning their attention to statehouses, recognizing that many of the policies they object to are being enacted at the state level as an obstructionist Congress has passed few laws in recent years. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Valerie Jarrett resurfaces as unpaid Obama Foundation aide

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Firm that shaped African-American museum to do Obama museum

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