Breaking: First Lady Michelle Obama Reschedules and Relocates Brown V. Board Graduation Speech

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al., better known as Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in public schools. To commemorate the occasion, the Topeka, Kansas Unified School District has invited First Lady Michelle Obama to speak at the district’s graduation, and some Topeka residents have decided to mark the occasion by trying to block her from doing so. This afternoon, The White House announced that they have succeeded.

The First Lady was originally scheduled to speak at a combined graduation ceremony on May 17, but a petition led by high school senior Taylor Gifford caught the attention of the press, on its way to collecting 2,700 signatures from around the country. That extreme minority of aggrieved students, parents, and random Obama-haters has apparently prevailed. From The White House…READ MORE

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.