Health & wellbeing stories

• Voyagers
• Global Reach

Explore Liza Zaruba's Summer Voyage, and learn how she plans to apply her new health care skills back in Chicago.

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

MBK Omaha has become a Model Community for showing a population-level impact on Milestone 6, all youth remain safe from violent crimes by demonstrating a 30 percent decrease in homicides from 2011 to 2022.

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Programs

Learn more about how the Girls Opportunity Alliance is working to empower and educate girls around the world

• Watch
• Presidential History

Hear from President Obama as he reflects on this milestone moment.

• Presidential History
• Watch

Personal stories released that highlight the legacy and impact of the ACA

• Alumni
• Presidential History

Meet five women carrying forward the legacy of the Affordable Care Act in their communities

• Scholars
• Youth

DeKevious Wilson strengthens youth mental health through policy work.

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

Check out the Freedom Summer 2023 grant recipients!

• Watch
• Presidential History

Understand the impact of this historic legislation for American families and share your story.

• MBK Alliance
• Event

MBK Rising! brought together the growing network of MBK Communities, cross-sector leaders, and young men of color and the organizations working hard to help them achieve their dreams. See the highlights

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Equality

Rebecca’s story

• Equality
• Alumni

Meet One Obama Alum Who is Leading the Fight for Women's Equality

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

I am proud to announce that the MBK Alliance is ramping up our efforts to support our MBK Network. The start of these efforts is our nationwide call to action, Freedom Summer 2022. Communities across the country often experience an uptick in youth violence

• Chicago
• Youth

Chicago lost another innocent life this weekend and this one came close to home.

• Michelle Obama
• Building the Center

From our earliest days of planning, we always knew we wanted to have a Fruit & Vegetable Garden at the future Obama Presidential Center

• MBK Alliance
• Watch

Here at the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, we support communities of color across the United States and Puerto Rico that are taking action to create systemic solutions to the most pressing issues facing boys and young men of color.

• Watch
• Barack Obama

12 years ago today, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law.

• First Look
• Building the Center

In a special message, former First Lady Michelle Obama reflects on the life of Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton, who was killed by gun violence in 2013. She also shared how the late teen will be honored at the Obama Presidential Center.

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Take Action

Learn about organizations in the Girls Opportunity Alliance community that are helping girls in India to keep learning safely during the pandemic.

• MBK Alliance
• Barack Obama

Father's Day

• Girls Opportunity Alliance
• Changemakers

This Father’s Day, meet dads around the world from the Girls Opportunity Alliance community who are supporting their daughters’ education and dreams.

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

This past February, we checked in with the Loíza Alliance for Peace, one of our MBK National Impact Community partners, for a virtual site visit about their effort to keep violence in Loíza at all-time lows.

• Watch
• Presidential History

Looking back, it’s easy to forget just how broken our health insurance system was before the Affordable Care Act.

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

It’s been seven years since President Obama called on the nation to address the persistent opportunity gaps boys and young men of color face and to ensure all young people can reach their full potential.

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

For the past two years, MBK Alliance has been proud to champion the work of our Impact and Seed Community partners, and today announced an additional $1 million investment to support their response to the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice.

• Stories
• Leaders

On World Cancer Day, get to know Obama Leader Bhavagaya “Bea” Bakshi, who is working tirelessly to save lives by detecting cancer in its earliest stages.

• MBK Alliance
• Youth

• Take Action
• USA

Volunteer in an underserved community today

• MBK Alliance
• Changemakers

To some, gun violence and broken trust between police and community members seem like problems that are simply too big to fix, but not to Willie Barney.

• Watch
• Chicago

Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Will Calloway became all too familiar with the disinvestment and systemic discrimination that create the conditions for gun violence to surface. 

• Watch
• Chicago

Berto Aguayo grew up in Back of the Yards, a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago

• Chicago
• Community Engagement

When he was just 16, Billy Moore made a tragic mistake, taking the life of another young Chicagoan

• Watch
• Chicago

In the Englewood neighborhood, Joseph Williams is also known as “The Black Mr. Rogers.”

• Chicago
• Youth

A Conversation with Chicago CRED