By The Admin on March 28, 2011
U.S. News & World Report
- President Obama is doing something special for African-Americans. He’s not only proving that color doesn’t make a difference in the Oval Office, he’s helping change white America’s view of blacks. As they see Obama in the White House every day, whites, even older Caucasians, are more likely to view blacks [...]
Posted in Race, White House
By The Admin on March 28, 2011
Huffington Post
- In the spirit of the NCAA college basketball tournament, ESPN aired a documentary on the bittersweet careers of University of Michigan’s “Fab Five.” During the documentary, former Michigan star, and current Huffington Post contributor, Jalen Rose expressed his feelings about his team’s rivalry with Duke when he said, “For me Duke was personal. [...]
Posted in Education, Race
By The Admin on March 28, 2011
New York Daily News
- In a way, by coming to Harlem on Tuesday, President Obama is getting the band back together.
Voters made history when they catapulted him, with his clarion call for change, into the Oval Office. But things haven’t gone as smoothly as he had hoped.
Americans are out of work. The nation is mired [...]
Posted in 2012 Elections, New York, Party Politics, White House
By The Admin on March 28, 2011
President Barack Obama is offering Congress and an anxious public his first detailed accounting of his rationale for U.S. military involvement in Libya and perhaps an answer to the burning question: What’s next?
His speech, set for 7:30 p.m. EDT Monday, comes after the administration scored an important diplomatic victory. NATO ambassadors on Sunday approved a [...]
Posted in International News, White House
By The Admin on March 28, 2011
Politico
- Haley Barbour, the Mississippi governor and likely 2012 Republican presidential aspirant, has recently made a series of missteps involving race and the Civil Rights Movement. He seemed unclear about basic historical points.
But he has now made a forthright declaration about the events swirling around what some Southerners still call the War of Northern Aggression. [...]
Posted in 2012 Elections, Mississippi
