via:blakamericanweb Today, President Obama will present the unveiling of a magnificent 9-foot statue of Rosa Parks in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill. This year marks the 100th birthday of the civil rights icon. The statue will be the first of an African American woman in our nations’ Capitol. On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was […]
President Barack Obama had the best of intentions when under the White House’s “We the People” initiative: Any person with Internet access can petition the…
via:blackchristiannews As the nation celebrates what would have been Martin Luther King’s 83rd birthday, Sharon Shahid wonders whether his famed essay, Letter from Birmingham Jail, “would have made such a lasting impression or had as powerful an impact if today’s instant communication devices existed, and if someone smuggled a BlackBerry or a mobile phone […]
via:christianpost The White House recently posted a response to a petition put on their “We the People” site calling for the impeachment of President Barack Obama. The official White House response came for a petition that had garnered over 49,000 signatures since the month of November. Read More
via:christianpost After the first meeting of the White House’s gun violence task force, Vice President Joe Biden said executive orders could be used to implement gun control measures, signaling action could be taken without Congressional approval. “The president is going to act. Executive orders, executive action, can be taken,” Biden told reporters before […]
via:christianpost The U.S. House of Representatives late Tuesday passed a bill, 257-167, to avoid the “fiscal cliff.” President Barack Obama said he will sign the bill into law. The bill passed with a majority of Democrats, 172-16, and a minority of Republicans, 85-151. It was negotiated by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Vice […]
via:christianpost A new Gallup poll shows that President Barack Obama and his once presidential rival and now outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are the most admired man and woman of 2012. But this was by no means a first for Clinton. It was her 17th year to take the top spot. Read More
via:christianpost As the nation careens toward the end of the year “fiscal cliff,” politicians and pundits are expressing many assumptions, some of which are incorrect. Here are five common myths about the fiscal cliff. Myth #1: Democrats Want to Compromise, Republicans Do Not A plurality of Americans believe that if a […]
From NewsOne.com: In a riveting and extremely moving moment, the newly re-elected 44 President of the United States, Barack Obama, thanks campaign staff and volunteers for their extraordinary commitment to him and to changing the country. He talks about his early days in Chicago as a community organizer, telling the rapt audience that “it’s not […]
via:christianpost Tuesday’s election should be a “wake-up call” to the Republican Party to do more to reach out to non-whites, the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez said in a Wednesday interview with The Christian Post. “Either [Republicans] press the snooze button on the Latino electorate and continue with an exclusive Southern strategy that is no […]
