{"id":25362,"date":"2021-06-03T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=25362"},"modified":"2021-06-03T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:32:20","slug":"obamas-we-the-people-netflix","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/obamas-we-the-people-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack And Michelle Obama Will Be Teaching Civics On Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25363\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25363\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-917433514.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"824\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former president <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/barack-obama-ufos\/\">Barack Obama<\/a> and, who we like to call our forever first lady, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/alicia-keys-billboard-music-awards-michelle-obama\/\">Michelle Obama<\/a> have taken their <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/biden-anti-asian-hate-crime-legislation\/\">Oval Office<\/a> expertise to a whole new arena. On Wednesday, the power pair announced that they have produced <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/queen-charlotte-bridgerton\/\">Netflix<\/a>&#8216;s latest <em>We The People<\/em>, a 10-episode animation series remixing civics curricula into three-minute music videos that are poised to enlighten children on the &#8220;power of the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We The People | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MLomtcM4-j4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/barack-obama-michelle-new-netflix-animated-series\/#:~:text=Netflix%20has%20elected%20Barack%20and,lessons%2C%20for%20the%20streaming%20service.\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, <\/em>the show is billed as &#8220;an exuberant call to action for everyone to rethink civics as a living, breathing thing and to reframe their understanding of what government and citizenship mean in a modern world.&#8221; Slated to release on the 4th of July, the series is a m\u00e9lange of lively animations, earworm tunes and of course, lessons that will empower the newest generation of changemakers.\u00a0The show&#8217;s narrative soundtrack enlisted the help of some of the industry&#8217;s hottest talent including the likes of <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adam Lambert<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Cordae, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frozen<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216;s Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hamilton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216;s Daveed Diggs, Brittany Howard,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hamilton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> starrer<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Brandi Carlile, KYLE, Bebe Rexha, Andra Day, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Janelle Mon\u00e1e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and poet <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/amanda-gorman-the-hill-we-climb-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amanda Gorman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to perform original songs and compositions. This star-studded roster is a step up from the popularized seventies song &#8220;I&#8217;m Just A Bill,&#8221; from the animated educational series <em>Schoolhouse Rock!<\/em>, that similarly taught civics to nation&#8217;s youth <em>(if you know, you know!).<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The show is created by <i>Doc McStuffins<\/i> writer Chris Nee, who will executive produce alongside the Obamas, their Higher Ground Productions company, <em>Black-ish <\/em>creator Kenya Barris, <i>The Greatest Showman&#8217;s <\/i>Tonia Davis, and Priya Swaminathan. Most recently, under the Obamas&#8217; production company&#8217;s multi-year deal with Netflix, Michelle launched her preschool series <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81035680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Waffles + Mochi<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>As she stars alongside the titular puppets, the show seeks to teach its young viewers the importance of incorporating wellness in their diets.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29094,"featured_media":25363,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Barack And Michelle Obama Will Be Teaching Civics On Netflix<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Barack and Michelle Obama have taken their Oval Office expertise to a whole new arena. 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