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Executively Produced By Barack And Michelle Obama, New Children's Show 'We The People' Will Educate Kids
Technical Issue Turns Kamala Harris' Plane Around Just After Takeoff For Guatemala
A technical issue that involved "no major safety concerns" forced US Vice President Kamala Harris' plane to return to Joint Base An- drews in Maryland about 30 minutes after she had left Sunday on a trip to Guatemala and Mexico.
Executively produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, Kenya Barris, and some other well-known names, recent reports share that a new animated and musical chil- dren’s show is coming to Net- flix called We the People, which aims to educate kids on American civics.
Comprised of 10, three- minute-long episodes that will feature original music per- formed by H.E.R., Brandi Carlile, and Andra Day, Va- riety shared that the show will cover “a range of basic U. S. civics lessons in not-so-basic ways — with a groundbreaking mix of animated styles. Each episode of the series promises to be a vibrant call to action for
BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA
everyone to rethink civics as a
living and breathing thing, and to reframe their understanding of what government and citi- zenship mean in a modern world.”
The project will include artists from a wide variety of genres, and reports addition- ally noted that some of the other musical names that will be featured in the episodes in- clude Janelle Monáe, Lin- Manuel Miranda, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Adam Lambert, Daveed Diggs, Cordae, Brittany Howard, Bebe Rexha, and Kyle.
Apparently, even inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman will bring a musical element to the show.
Barack Obama Surprises Chicago Youth Football Team, Gives Pump-Up Speech!
Vice President Kamala Harris’ first trip abroad to Guatemala and Mexico got off to a rocky start Sunday, when a technical issue grounded the plane after about 30 minutes into the flight.
“I’m good. I’m good,” she told reporters after she de- planed. “We all said a little prayer, but we’re good.”
Reporters heard an unusual noise coming from the landing gear, but the plane arrived
safely back at Joint Base An- drews in Maryland.
“It is a technical issue. There are no major safety concerns,” Harris’ chief spokeswoman Symone Sanders told re- porters before landing.
Harris switched planes be- fore continuing on to Guatemala City, where she held the first of two days of talks on Monday to discuss the root causes of migration from Central America and Mexico.
Last Tuesday, the Chicago youth football team received the ultimate surprise visit ... Barack Obama came to give a spectacular pump-up speech
!!!# 44 appeared at Jackson Park to visit the Chicago South Side Wolfpack football team.
Barry O provided players with solid guidance on life on and off the field. I want it right away “
“But the point is whether you can build that strength in your- self and come back.”
It’s really wonderful con-
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA SPEAKING TO THE YOUTH
SC Lawmaker Makes History As 1st Black Woman To Run For Governor
tent!!
President Obama met all
the children by taking pictures and shaking hands.
BENNETTSVILLE, S.C. — Since the country’s founding, no Black woman has ever served as a governor in the United States. But South Car- olina Democratic state Sen. Mia McLeod says she’s the person who can change that, despite the fact that Democrats haven’t been elected to a statewide office there in 15 years.
“I want to be the person that is running not because I’m a woman, and not because I’m Black, but because I am so con- nected to and so much like the people that I represent,” McLeod, a Columbia-area lawmaker, told The Associated Press ahead of Thursday’s offi- cial 2022 campaign launch. “It’s a tremendous responsibil- ity, but it’s one that I’m excited about.”
McLeod, 52, spoke exten- sively with AP during a Tues- day tour of her hometown Bennettsville, a rural hamlet about 100 miles (160 kilome- ters) northeast of the state cap- ital. It’s the seat of Marlboro County, which has one of the state’s highest unemployment
MIA MCLEOD
rates. Asked about her top campaign concerns, McLeod cited education and health care, noting the area’s crum- bling schools and lack of a hos- pital since 2015.
“I believe rural counties like mine are a microcosm for what’s happening statewide, when it comes to our rural communities that have been left behind,” she said, arguing that Republicans like Gov. Henry McMaster, in his first full term, had failed the state.
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