DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division was blocked by bipartisan Senate opposition...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama announced a “My Brother’s Keeper,” an initiative to help young Black and Brown men succeed. Many present...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas plans to meet with President Barack Obama next month to discuss Mideast peace talks. The meeting will occur...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama will speak at an April event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. The...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A group of civil rights leaders met with President Obama and several members of his cabinet last...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016 would lift nearly 1 million low-wage workers out of...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Just when, six years in to the Obama presidency, I think I’m hardened to the deranged anti-Obama rants of...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A report by Congress’ nonpartisan budget analysts seems to have thrown Democrats onto the defensive after it concluded that...
[The Washington Post] A couple weeks ago, Marianne Markowitz was serving on a small business advisory council for the city of Chicago and as the regional...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I was pleased that President Obama spent so much time on the matter of economic inequality and the need...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama served notice in his State of the Union speech that he intends to make 2014...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Keeping his promise to act with or without a cooperative Congress, President Obama recently announced plans to...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is drawing attention to businesses hiring long-term unemployed workers and is encouraging the private sector to...
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Stressing the importance of having job-training programs that work, President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered a “soup to nuts” review of federal...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is focusing on training workers for in-demand jobs, another theme from his State of the Union address. The White House...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic push to boost the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour is a long shot in Congress this election year, even...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night, parts of which were shared over the weekend, was designed...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Mid-January is the time when Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday is commemorated. Cities, towns, and colleges across the country lift...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA National Correspodent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The new year has ushered in a renewed focus on education reform in the Obama administration. This...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Those who read me regularly know that I have been extremely critical of the Obama presidency; but it has always...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Which recent president has used the word “gay” most often in a public speech, statement or proclamation? And who used it the least,...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama meets Pope Francis in the Vatican in March, both men will speak a common economic...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writers MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Technology companies and industry groups took President Barack Obama’s speech on U.S....
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will hold an African leaders summit in Washington this summer. The White House says the summit will focus on strengthening...
[The Washington Post] President Obama gave a series of comments to the New Yorker’s David Remnick that, predictably, are attracting attention this morning because he said: “There’s no doubt that there’s some...
