44 has been taking a lot of flack for not having face-mask-wearing precautions enforced at the big party.
Executively produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, Kenya Barris, and some other well-known names, recent reports share that a new animated and musical children's show is coming to Netflix called 'We the People,' which aims to educate kids on American civics.
Former President Barack Obama's grandmother and philanthropist Sarah Ogwel Onyango Obama has died at the age of 99. After receiving treatment at a hospital in Kisumu, Western Kenya for an illness that hasn't been disclosed, the matriarch's passing is now being mourned by the Obama family and across the world.
Here are 15 celebs who have been active in the 2012 election campaigns, pushing the issues most important to them, telling young people to vote, and endorsing their favorite candidates.
Think Nicki Minaj was the only Black celebrity who broadcasted her support for the GOP?
Critics of President Obama have expressed strong dissatisfaction relative to Guantanamo Bay and purported lack of leadership during recent protests in Iran, Syria, Egypt and Libya, but the Pres certainly has his share of achievements.
How would you grade President Obama's performance this year?
(Wall Street Journal) — President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal 2012 will be released in mid-February, a little more than a week after its planned release date. The administration is scrambling to assemble what could be a pivotal document following a six-week delay in the confirmation of the White House’s new budget director, a […]
(The Grio) — With 2010 coming to a close, and the first two years of the Obama presidency now history, this is a perfect time to take a look at some of President Obama’s major accomplishments that benefit black America. In light of the bad economy and attacks on Obama from all directions, the public […]
She built a career from one important idea.
(The Nation) — Barack Obama’s candidacy inspired comparisons to change agents like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Critics of his presidency have invoked Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton to portray him as weak and to decry his rightward shift. In my circle of African-American progressive academics and advocates, […]
(The Network Journal) — The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President Barack Obama and rebound from last month’s devastating elections. The population continues to shift from Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states to Republican-leaning Sun Belt states, a […]