107-year-old woman who danced with Obama gets new ID card
May 4, 2016
Without the new ID, McLaurin couldn’t fly to New York or Los Angeles for interviews about her videotaped meeting with Obama that went viral online
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Obama says North Carolina law should be overturned
April 28, 2016
President Barack Obama called last Friday for the overturning of a North Carolina law that requires transgender people to use public bathrooms conforming to the sex on their birth certificates and restricts protections for LGBT people.
Saint Louis University investigates team’s racist texts
April 27, 2016
First reported last week by the school’s student newspaper, the texts were sent in May using the group messaging app GroupMe
Obama to deliver 3 commencement speeches
April 21, 2016
President Barack Obama will deliver his final commencement speeches as president at Rutgers University, Howard University and the Air Force Academy.
Obama: GOP jeopardizing judicial integrity with Garland
April 13, 2016
In Chicago, Obama answered some questions from students, including one who asked about the diversity Garland, who is white, would add to the court
Homeland Security begins sharing cyber threats with business
March 23, 2016
The Homeland Security Department last Thursday formally began sharing details of new digital threats with private business and other government agencies, a culmination of a longtime effort to improve cybersecurity.
Obama administration punches new holes in embargo on Cuba
March 17, 2016
The Obama administration punched a new series of holes in the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba on Tuesday, turning a ban on U.S. tourism to Cuba into an unenforceable honor system and paving the way for Cuban athletes to one day play Major League Baseball and other U.S. professional sports.
Harris Wins California Democratic Party Endorsement
March 3, 2016
“I’m incredibly honored to have the endorsement of the California Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate race, and I’m so proud of the support our campaign has received from every corner of our state,” said California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who overwhelmingly won the California Democratic Party’s endorsement this past weekend at the California Democratic Convention. Harris is the first statewide candidate in a competitive primary to win the party’s endorsement since 2010. She earned 78 percent of the vote, well over the 60 percent threshold needed to win the party’s endorsement. “We know there is more that unites us
Court fight seen by African-Americans as affront to Obama
March 2, 2016
Watching the fight unfold between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans over who should choose the next Supreme Court justice, Michael A. Bowden got angry at what he saw at the latest affront to the first black president.
IPL Hosts a Community Screening of ‘Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race’
February 10, 2016
The Inglewood Public Library will host a free screening of “Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race” at the Gladys Waddingham Lecture Hall, 101 W. Manchester Blvd. on February 28 in Inglewood. Recently broadcast on PBS, “Bridging the Divide” tells the little-known story of Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, the first African American mayor elected in a major American city with a white majority.
The President Speaks at the Islamic Society of Baltimore
February 8, 2016
This Week in Black History (Feb.4-Feb.9)
February 3, 2016
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Gun control alone can’t curb violence
January 13, 2016
As President Barack Obama announces new executive action on gun control, U.S. gun manufacturing is a growth industry, almost doubling since the beginning of Obama Administration (5.6 million in 2009; 10.9 million in 2013). From 2001 to 2013, according to a Centers of Disease Control and Prevention report, 406,496 Americans were killed with firearms on U.S. soil. In contrast, the number of U.S. citizens killed by terrorists at home or abroad over the same years number 3,380. Chicago suffered a spike in gun homicides in 2015 with 470 homicides and 2,939 shooting victims, the worst of all U.S. cities.
Obama expands media strategy to long-form conversations
January 6, 2016
The novelist tossed out phrases such as “religious humanism” and “the sinister other.” The interviewer asked her about her upbringing and writing process. At an hour and 7,000 thoughtful words, the discussion sounded like a college seminar or an independent bookstore reading. But this was part of the White House’s new media strategy. Even for a president well-practiced in using nontraditional media, the conversation in September between Barack Obama and writer Marilynne Robinson — and a few other conversations like it conducted in recent months — charted new territory in presidential communications. Slow-paced, personal, nearly divorced from the news of
Obama defends forthcoming gun restrictions as constitutional
January 6, 2016
Gearing up for a certain confrontation with Congress, President Barack Obama defended his plans to tighten the nation’s gun-control restrictions on his own, insisting Monday that the steps he’ll announce fall within his legal authority and uphold the constitutional right to own a gun. Opening his final year in office on an aggressive note, Obama summoned his attorney general and FBI chief to the Oval Office to firm up a set of measures he said he’d announce over the next few days. Although the details are still uncertain, Obama’s administration has been preparing behind the scenes to expand background checks