President Barack Obama is one of the prominent voices featured in a new podcast, “Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise,” hosted by author and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell. The eight-part audio series from the History Channel is produced in collaboration with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground production company, Malcom Gladwell’s Pushkin Industries and Audible. It’s available starting […]

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“I have sat across the table from some of the world’s most intractable leaders and wrestled with some of the globe’s most intractable problems. Nothing has prepared me for working with Larry David.” Those words from Barack Obama at the beginning of a new teaser for Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, HBO’s seven-episode […]

EXCLUSIVE: Higher Ground will be breaking new ground in its evolution. The production company of President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama will transition to becoming independent when its current first-look deal with Netflix is up later this year, sources said. President Obama signaled the change while on stage at History Channel’s special edition of HistoryTalks […]

Barack and Michelle Obama are coming to Broadway. The former president and first lady are making their Broadway producing debut with the upcoming revival of “Proof” through their Higher Ground production banner. Don Cheadle and Ayo Edebiri are making their Broadway debuts in David Auburn’s Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The limited engagement will be directed by Tony […]