The Freedman's Bank was established in 1865 to help foment wealth-building for nearly four million newly freed slaves. It closed in 1874.
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is scheduled to return as a partner at the big corporate law firm he exited more than five years…
via News92FM.Com As part of an Obama administration plan to confront homelessness, three Houston-area homeless programs will receive nearly $2.8 million in federal funding. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development stated that more than $200 million will be allocated to some 700 new homeless programs nationwide. Read More
Via News92FM.Com A controversial new Texas law which requires voters to present personal identification before going to the polls, has been blocked by the Obama administration. On Monday, the Justice Department sent a letter to state officials, stating that the law could be seen as discriminatory against Hispanics and other minorities. <a href=”http://news92fm.com/_homepage/cmitchell/obama-administration-blocks-texas-voter-id-law/”>Read More</a>
From NationalJournal.com: If the economy produces jobs over the next eight months at the same pace as it did over the past four months, the nation will have created more jobs in 2010 alone than it did over the entire eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency. That comparison comes with many footnotes and asterisks. […]
WASHINGTON – Trimming budget deficits is as important as creating jobs to sustain the economic recovery, President Barack Obama said Saturday.
From NYTimes.com: WASHINGTON — Facing mounting pressure from New York politicians concerned about costs and security, the Obama administration on Thursday began considering moving the trial of the chief organizer of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks out of Manhattan, administration officials said.
From HuffingtonPost.com: Two days before President Obama’s State of the Union speech, the president sat down with ABC’s Diane Sawyer for a lengthy and ranging conversation on health care, the economy, and whether “one term is enough.”
