Though their parents have worked hard to shield them from the harsh spotlight of White House life, they were pulled into a political scuffle last week in a controversial NRA ad. Experts say in the next four years, they’ll grow more comfortable in the ...
Posted Sunday, January 20th 2013 at 1:28PM
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President Barack Obama was officially sworn in Sunday for his second term as president of the United States, ahead of Monday's public events.
In a small and succinct ceremony at the White House, Obama recited the constitutionally mandated oath of of ...
Posted Sunday, January 20th 2013 at 1:20PM
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Brilliant essay on the failure of elected officials to act in best interest of American people. Leonard Pitts Jr. Brings it home. These high flying elected officials remind me of a childhood game called 'hide and go seek'. The problem is they are not ...
Posted Sunday, January 20th 2013 at 12:45PM
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SEE IM FROM THE REAL HARLEM NY where everyday is a get down NOT THAT FAKE ,
RUN FROM downtown to uptown to out of town to the Long Island Sound TO much jerking no money no working ,,,EASY
COME TO THE CLOTHING STORE IN HARLEM CALL JAY'S GET REA ...
Posted Sunday, January 20th 2013 at 1:40AM
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(CNN) -- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was called a communist, an outside agitator, and a drum major for righteousness.
But now a growing number of people are calling King something else: A conservative icon.
As the nation celebrates King's natio ...
Posted Saturday, January 19th 2013 at 7:40PM
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Watching his Republican adversaries in the House of Representatives tiptoe gingerly away from another destructive confrontation over the debt ceiling just before his second inaugural celebration, President Obama must feel a measure of satisfaction. Y ...
Posted Saturday, January 19th 2013 at 1:56PM
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Obama Campaign Reinvents Itself as a Nonprofit
Organizing for Action will push the president's agenda and train new leaders.
By Joyce Jones
President Obama's hugely successful second-term bid, which took technology and grassroots outreach to c ...
Posted Saturday, January 19th 2013 at 1:27AM
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Boycott results in a new Black-owned gas station in Dallas community
DALLAS (FinalCall.com) - If you were anywhere near South Dallas about a year ago you would be familiar with the term “Don’t Stop, Don’t Shop.”
It related to spending hard-earned B ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 10:35PM
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this brief timeline describes an American history of oppression, persecution, and discrimination in regards to voting rights. In all of these cases those affected were not passive victims — rather they fought back with whatever means they had.
Sim ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 9:34PM
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Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) said that the National Rifle Association (NRA) opposed President Barack Obama's gun control plans because the group “still cannot get over” the fact that the president is “black.”
Following a Capitol Hill press conference on W ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 9:13PM
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The Battleground
The “War on Drugs” is a War on Black People!
Forty years after President Richard M. Nixon declared a “War on Drugs” under the guise of halting trafficking in drugs in the United States,the evidence is clear: The War on Drug ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 8:00PM
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Many people think that Malcolm X promoted violence and this was not the case. More than anything, he was a proponent of self-defense. Negatively he has been portrayed as violent and racist. Since he did not preach non-violence, he was often seen as M ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 4:15PM
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http://tv.msnbc.com/shows/the-ed-show/
A dangerous side of the gun debate rears its ugly head as the righties go off the rails.
Tonight at 8pET on “The Ed Show,” Ed Schultz breaks down the rabid reaction to the president with Karen Finney, MSNBC ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 10:55PM
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While in a discussion about Hawaii's social and financial problems, Bill O'Reilly utters a sentence so ignorant and rude that practically any newsroom on the planet would have reprimanded him. Fortunately for O'Reilly, he was on Fox News. In addition ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 10:42PM
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Democratic Representative Keith Ellison and five others are sponsoring the Full Faith and Credit Act. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari).
By Nation DC intern Anna Simonton
As the country barrels towards a possible default on its debt, members of the ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 10:38PM
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History flashback: remember when Southern states tried to nullify laws during the civil war and during desegregation in the 1950's?
Well now Kentucky Senator Rand Paul wants to nullify Pres. Obama's executive orders.
And he's not the only one: ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 10:28PM
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