The Barack Obama fan club is dwindling. For example, Princeton University religion professor Cornel West and journalist Tavis Smiley are launching a nationwide “Poverty Tour” that will offer a serious critique of the Obama administration’s policies toward the poor. In a devastating article, Bard College foreign affairs and humanities professor Walter Russell Mead concludes that […]
In a recent survey by YourBlackWorld.com, it was found that African Americans are divided over the comments of Princeton University professor Cornel West, who has critiqued the Obama Administration in the media over the past several weeks. A mild majority of those who gave a definite answer (44.6%; only 87.2% said “yes” or “no”) claim […]
The campaign trails have opened up and candidates have been throwing their hat in the ringleft and right, but you have to be able to pay to play. nd not only has the GOP been unsuccessful getting their money trail blazing, but they haven’t been that great at producing a candidate for President either. According to President Obama’s campaign […]
Many people have questioned Barack Obama’s Christianity.
First Lady Michelle Obama arrived at Spelman College’s 124th commencement to roaring cheers. The 550 graduates and their families were moved and inspired by her words of encouragement, female empowerment and always giving back to others.
Even though it’s 2011, we’re still litigating whether rap music in and of itself is a societal corrosive or an artistic expression that channels raw experience and expurgates emotions in the form of a catharsis. It’s really the old Plato versus Aristotle rap battles over the artistic merits of tragedy — at least we can […]
Obama on Raid: I Was Relieved
First 9/11 memorial stop for President Obama: A firehouse that lost 15 of its finest nearly a decade ago.
President Barack Obama on Thursday will mark the killing of Osama bin Laden with a triumphant return to ground zero, a hallowed site that has often been a place of discord, controversy and — for the president — mixed emotions.
With all the havoc that is going on in America and across the world as a backdrop, President Barack Obama will be appearing on the Oprah Winfrey show with his First Lady, Michelle Obama.