by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from The Afro-American Newspaper If Republicans have their way, the last years of Barack Obama’s presidency will be...
(The Washington Post) – A new CBS News/New York Times poll shows that Americans give President Obama mixed reviews for his handling of the situation in Ferguson,...
(Politico) – It’s a paradox of Barack Obama’s presidency: The first African-American to run the country finds himself in the tensest racial confrontation of his tenure...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the United States pivots to strengthen economic ties with Africa, there’s a good chance that Black-owned...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is sending Attorney General Eric Holder to Ferguson, Missouri, to meet with federal law enforcement authorities investigating the police...
(Politico) – President Barack Obama really wanted to take a vacation. But then the world intervened. The president’s plan to snag two weeks off in Martha’s...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — For President Barack Obama, the intersection of race and the law has revealed both the pitfalls...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday appealed for “peace and calm” on the streets of a St....
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – For the past 40 years, Jawanza Kunjufu has dedicated his life to uplifting African Americans through education...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama says that while the shooting death of a Missouri teenager has prompted “strong...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — After distancing herself from some of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton...
(USA Today) – President Obama reminded donors Monday night that another issue could be at stake in this year’s U.S. Senate elections: Control of the...
by Genevieve Quinta Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Citizen The closing press conference of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit with United States President Barack...
MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press FORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) — Tens of thousands of military veterans who have been enduring long waits for...
JULIE PACE, Associated Press DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is doing something unusual with his summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard: He’ll...
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the administration is reviewing what authority he has to act without Congress to stop...
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Take a White House state dinner and multiply it by 50. The result is the most elaborate and unusual...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that the federal government and private U.S. companies are investing $33...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Abbigal Muleya, a young woman from Zimbabwe, traveled by bus for 18 hours just to apply...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided House approved a Republican plan Wednesday to launch a campaign-season lawsuit against President Barack Obama, accusing...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pointing the finger at Republicans for congressional inaction, President Barack Obama chided lawmakers Wednesday for spending the...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — President Barack Obama feasted on barbecue Tuesday with four people who wrote him letters in a trip...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Over Democratic objections, Republicans cleared the way Thursday for a House vote on legislation authorizing an election-year lawsuit accusing President Barack Obama...
Washington (CNN) – There’s not a lot of public appetite for a Republican push to sue President Barack Obama, or for calls by some conservatives to...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fact met fiction Wednesday in one of those Hollywood ways: The real-life president of the United States complains about “phony scandals”...