By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) – Although he grew up in a rural farming community in Georgia during an era of rigid...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Enrollment for the president’s health care law has grown to 7.5 million Americans, the Obama administration announced Thursday, handing...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Barack Obama was 2 years old when Lyndon Baines Johnson sat in the East Room of the White...
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Several big corporations have reaped millions of dollars from “Obamacare” even as they support GOP candidates who vow to...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Civil rights groups, labor organizer and their allies are stepping up pressure on Congress to pass legislation...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a concerted election-year push to draw attention to women’s wages, President Barack Obama signed...
JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lyndon Johnson’s presidency has long been viewed in the shadow of the Vietnam War, a conflict that saw...
CONNIE CASS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Here’s more fallout from the health care law: Until now, customers could walk into an insurance office or go...
EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has conducted warrantless searches of Americans’ communications as part of the National Security Agency’s surveillance operations...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After facing a rocky start and chorus of naysayers who declared his health care law a failure, President Barack...
CONNIE CASS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not too late to get covered. A few routes remain open for those who missed the health care...
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s national healthcare program was on track to reach its goal of covering 7 million Americans, administration officials said on Tuesday, a...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist History is often made by leaders who make a consequential difference in quality of life of people. The...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Secret Service agent found drunk by staff at a Dutch hotel was recalled to the U.S. along with...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the final, frenzied push to boost health insurance enrollment numbers under the Affordable Care Act, President...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Alright team, here we are again approaching the midterm elections. Having won both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, we...
[Politic365] This morning on NewsOne Now with Roland Martin, National Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation (NNPA) wire service Editor-in-Chief George Curry said the black press has been...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Although unemployment rates are unacceptably high, especially for African Americans, President Obama has done a better job improving the...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist During his State of the Union address, President Obama promised to use the power of his pen to achieve the...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he has called President Barack Obama to express his frustration over what...
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a disastrous start and relentless Republican opposition, President Barack Obama said Friday that enrollment in his signature...
DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has threatened to withdraw all American forces from Afghanistan if a new security agreement is not...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – If President Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative expands educational and work opportunities for young Black and...
[The Washington Post] Congress has passed a two-year budget agreement that sets spending levels through the end of 2015, meaning that members of the House and...
[The Washington Post] SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine — Pro-Russian lawmakers in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea sparked a showdown reminiscent of the Cold War on Thursday, accelerating...
