By Gregory Simpkins Much has been written and said in the wake of the recent passing of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. He was an important figure...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In May 2011, I was a Political Science student at the University of Ghana when news broke that Osama bin Laden had...
AP | Former Vice President Kamala Harris is to receive the NAACP ‘s Chairman’s Award during the civil rights organization’s Image Awards ceremony this weekend. Harris,...
AP | The Rev. Jesse Jackson announced Saturday that he will step down as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the Chicago-based civil rights group he...
AP | US President Joe Biden said Monday that his top domestic policy adviser, Susan Rice, will leave her post next month. As director of the...
AP | Barack Obama is halfway to an EGOT. The former president won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys. Obama won...
AP | Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to the US Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the...
AP | Former U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, though he’s feeling relatively healthy and his wife,...
This coin will ensure generations of Americans learn about Maya Angelou’s books and poetry that spoke to the lived experience of Black women.
Sidney Poitier always insisted on playing smart, poised and thoughtful African and African American characters.
AP | Former US President Barack Obama’s presidential center will move another step closer to its brick-and-mortar future next week when ground is broken after years...
The awards, which recognize "significant contributions to civil and human rights", will be presented in a virtual ceremony on October 14 to Obama and campaign leaders...
Obama will have a minority equity stake in NBA Africa
Virginia middle school that was once named after a Confederate soldier has been renamed in honor of African American NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson. The former Sidney...
U.S. President Barack Obama earlier this week, announced new measures to smooth the integration of former criminals into society. Obama, a Democrat who has made criminal...
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the Black Lives Matter movement is raising a “legitimate issue” about African Americans being treated unfairly in certain...
By Jean-Claude Masangu Mulongo U.S. President Obama has left the continent. During his historic and inspiring visit to Kenya and Ethiopia, he announced several new initiatives...
Calling it a moral obligation, U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled the final version of his plan to dramatically cut emissions from U.S. power plants, as he...
By Frank Sieren U.S. President Barack Obama cannot do much more in Africa. Asia, especially China, is so far ahead that the United States won’t be...
U.S. President Barack Obama landed in Ethiopia on Sunday, beginning a two-day stay and becoming the first American leader to visit Africa’s second most populous nation....
U.S. President Barack Obama told African entrepreneurs in Kenya on Saturday they could help counter violent ideologies and drive growth in Africa, and said governments had...
By Jake Bright As entrepreneurship takes off in countries like Kenya and Ethiopia, the U.S. President Barack Obama will be looking for more ways to boost...
By Chen Weihua U.S. President Barack Obama will take off later this week on a trip to Kenya and Ethiopia, his first trip to the 2...
U.S. President Barack Obama is pushing for bipartisan action to change the criminal justice system in ways that go far beyond the limited executive powers he...
U.S. President Barack Obama will address the 106th National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Annual Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, July 14,...
The U.S. Supreme Court handed U.S. President Barack Obama a major victory on Thursday by upholding tax subsidies crucial to his signature healthcare law, with Chief...
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended his healthcare reforms as a moral imperative that is now part of the fabric of America, as the Supreme...
U.S. President Barack Obama plans to put in place new restrictions on the use of military equipment by police departments, following unrest in several American cities...
African businessman and philanthropist, Tony O. Elumelu has proposed a new entrepreneur-led development model for Africa at two high profile events in Washington DC. Elumelu, who...
It is almost certain that highly acclaimed architect David Adjaye will be selected to design U.S. President Barack Obama’s presidential library. Adjaye, who was named the...
Following a week of racially charged protests in Baltimore, U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said obstacles facing minority men from birth put them in a...
U.S. President Barack Obama will announce a new private-sector initiative on Monday aimed at sustaining his My Brother’s Keeper program beyond his time in the White...
Opening a three-day trip to the Caribbean and Central America, U.S. President Barack Obama hopes to capitalize on mutual needs in the face of expanding Chinese...
Barack Obama will become the first U.S. president to set foot on Jamaican soil in more than three decades on Wednesday. Obama arrives in Kingston for...
U.S. President Barack Obama will ask Americans to think of climate change as a threat not just to the environment, but also to their health. Obama...
The number of uninsured U.S. residents fell by more than 11 million since U.S. President Barack Obama signed the health care overhaul 5 years ago, according...
Jamaica’s prime minister has revealed that U.S. President Barack Obama will visit the Caribbean country next month. Portia Simpson-Miller told lawmakers Tuesday that Obama will pay...
Nearly 11.7 million people have either signed up or re-enrolled for insurance coverage under the U.S. healthcare reform law, more than the 9.1 million predicted by...
U.S. President Barack Obama told students at Georgia Tech on Tuesday he wants to make the process of repaying student loans easier to understand and manage....
America’s racial history “still casts its long shadow upon us,” U.S. President Barack Obama said Saturday as he stood in solidarity and remembrance with civil rights...
Sometime last year, a high-ranking Ugandan Minister sent an email to a contact in a United States Agency. Like any good college alumni, Mr. Minister had...
Americans’ views of U.S. President Barack Obama have improved slightly in the past two months, and opinions are more positive about the direction of the country...
U.S. President Barack Obama issued a proclamation on January 30, declaring February as National African American History Month. The proclamation reads: “For generations, the story of...
Almost a week after Barack Obama’s 6th State of the Union address to a seated bicameral United States Congress; after much hoopla has been made of...
U.S. President Barack Obama declared Tuesday night that the “shadow of crisis” has passed America and urged Congress to build on economic gains by raising taxes...
U.S. President Barack Obama wants Congress to pass legislation requiring companies to inform customers within 30 days if their data has been hacked, a move that...
While in Cape Town, South Afica last year, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that a US$7 billion plan to “Power Africa” would double electricity output on...
By Emmanuel Musaazi Reading Peggy Noonan’s article titled “Apathy in the Executive” her analysis and portrayal of U.S. President Barack Obama as a failed leader in...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning after heading the Justice Department for 6 years. A White House official says U.S. President Barack Obama will announce...
Heavily armed police in military gear advance towards an unarmed protester in Ferguson, Missouri. PHOTO/Jeff Roberson/AP U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered a review of the...
U.S. President Barack Obama PHOTO/Charles Dharapak/AP U.S. President Barack Obama announced Thursday night that he had authorized airstrikes to protect members of an ancient religious minority...
From left to right, President Macky Sall of Senegal, Former Malawian President Joyce Banda, U.S. President Barack Obama, President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, and...
China trade with Africa projected to grow. SOURCE/Standard Chartered Research When the east African nation of Uganda sought bids last month for an US$8 billion contract...
U.S. President Barack Obama answers questions at a Young African Leaders Initiative Town Hall at the University of Johannesburg Soweto campus in Johannesburg, South Africa, June...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers an address during the launch of the “My Brother’s Keeper initiative”., February 27, 2014. PHOTO/White House U.S. President Barack Obama on...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States should join the rest of the industrialized world and offer paid...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama is preparing new executive initiatives to help Americans struggling to pay off their student debt, and throwing...
The United States of America on Tuesday in Addis Ababa embarked on an aggressive energy roll out in Africa, targeting two million households. Ernest Moniz, U.S....
For the first time in more than 20 years, the United States will appoint an ambassador to Somalia in what a senior official on Tuesday described...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers an address during the launch of the “My Brother’s Keeper initiative”., February 27, 2014. PHOTO/White House When U.S. President Barack Obama...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks before signing an executive order banning federal contractors from retaliating against employees during an event in the East Room of...
The rate of adults in the United States who lack health insurance keeps going down, according to major survey tracking the rollout of President Barack Obama’s...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers an address during the launch of the “My Brother’s Keeper initiative”., February 27, 2014. PHOTO/White House A network of community lenders...
Pro-Obamacare demostrators lobbying outside the U.S. Supreme Court. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2010 health law (Obamacare) was responsible for about three-quarters of a...
Facing what many consider his greatest foreign policy crisis, President Obama declared Monday that Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula will be a “costly proposition”...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was in good condition after being taken to a Washington, D.C., hospital on Thursday for feeling faint and short of breath...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama will Thursday launch a personal quest that will outlast his presidency to help young African American men...
Pro-Obamacare demostrators lobbying outside the U.S. Supreme Court. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press Pressing for a final rush of health care enrollees, U.S. President President Barack Obama said...
U.S. President Barack Obama (c) and Attorney General Eric Holder (l) meet with African American civil rights leaders at the White House., February 18, 2014. PHOTO/Pablo...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The White House says President Barack Obama will sign an executive order Wednesday increasing the minimum wage for federal contractors. Obama...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will host a summit of African leaders in Washington this August, a sign that his administration is paying more attention to...
The nation’s uninsured rate dropped modestly this month as the major coverage expansion under U.S. President Barack Obama’s health care law got underway, according to a...
From left to right, President Macky Sall of Senegal, President Joyce Banda of Malawi, U.S. President Barack Obama, President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, and...
U.S. President Barack Obama addressing the nation about NSA surveillance techniques, January 17, 2014. PHOTO/Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama banned U.S. eavesdropping...
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the audience at North Carolina State University., January 15, 2014. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/AP Making good on a promise from last year’s State...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to rein in spying on foreign leaders and is considering restricting National Security Agency (NSA)...
(Reuters) – The Obama administration-backed bill to extend jobless benefits for 1.3 million Americans narrowly cleared a Republican procedural roadblock in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday,...
In a sign of bi-partisan co-operation, the Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives, John Boehner, has signaled his intention to embrace a series of...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama gets back to work this week eager to test whether a modest budget deal passed in the...
(Reuters) – The White House is coming under pressure from some of its closest allies on healthcare reform to name a chief executive to run its...
(Bloomberg) – Consumers waiting until the last minute to buy health coverage under Obamacare received a reprieve as a record number of users visited the U.S....
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Vice Admiral Michelle Howard (pictured), for a fourth star Friday, becoming the first woman in Navy history to attain the rank....
U.S. Rep. Mel Watt. PHOTO/Reuters Democrats have taken advantage of their weakening of filibusters and muscled through the Senate President Barack Obama’s pick to lead a...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP More than 70 leaders from across the world, some of them locked in enmity, are flying to...
Precisely 3 weeks ago, we sat opposite a cabinet minister of an East African nation. When the subject of regional integration was broached, the Honorable scoffed at...
U.S. President Barack Obama’s chief of staff said on Tuesday that more than 1 million new visitors had checked out the HealthCare.gov website on Monday, the...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a World AIDS day event. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP U.S. President Barack Obama has announced a new initiative at the National Institutes...
(Reuters) – Americans are getting their first look on Saturday at whether a five-week, round-the-clock technology overhaul has made it easier to use the troubled website...
Small businesses won’t be able to buy health insurance via HealthCare.gov until next year, U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration announced Wednesday. The delay in functionality for...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) chats with former Los Angeles Lakers great Magic Johnson (l) during the Carrier Classic college basketball game between the University of...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama says a nuclear deal with Iran is an “important first step” toward addressing the world’s concerns over...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed the move by Democrats to revamp Senate filibuster rules to make it easier for...
U.S. President Barack Obama presents Oprah Winfrey with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Wednesday, November 20, 2013. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP U.S. President Barack Obama opened a day...
Jeh Johnson (pictured), the U.S. President Barack Obama’s nominee, to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security cleared a key milestone Wednesday...
Pro-Obamacare demostrators lobbying outside the U.S. Supreme Court. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press (Reuters) – The Obama administration will release healthcare enrollment numbers for Obamacare’s rocky October rollout...
Bill O’Reilly, Host of the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News. PHOTO/Fox News There is a huge difference between the American media and the rest of the...
Atlanta Mayor, Kasim Reed. PHOTO/File Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed was elected to a second term Tuesday, defeating three little known challengers as he continues to raise...
On October 1, 2013, the federal bureaucracy of the world’s richest economy was partially shut down. To many, this was, simply ridiculous. Cynics...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement about the re-opening of government following a 2 week shutdown. PHOTO/Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Facing a deadline, Congress passed and...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The Republicans, particularly in the House, pushed for a government shutdown and then threatened not to increase the federal debt ceiling...
On January 21, 2017, we predict that the drag on the U.S. economy will, finally, be lifted. Just as would have happened if Mitt Romney had...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and congressional Republican leaders moved to end their fiscal impasse on Friday, but struggled to...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) with Speaker of the U.S House of Representatives John Boehner (l). PHOTO/AP U.S. President Obama again urged House Speaker John Boehner,...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama is cancelling a trip to Asia to stay in Washington and push for an elusive funding bill...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Business leaders in the United States are taking sides with Democratic President Barack Obama after failing to persuade their traditional Republican...
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses nation regarding government shutdown in the Rose Garden of the White House. PHOTO/Getty Images U.S. President Barack Obama has canceled two...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama said on the first day of a partial federal government shutdown that House Republicans are on an...
(NNPA) – As Historically Black Colleges and Universities adapt to the rapidly changing educational landscape, advocates say that collaborative partnerships in business, in the community, and...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File With the government teetering on the brink of partial shutdown, congressional Republicans vowed today to keep using an otherwise routine federal...
U.S. President Barack Obama is appointing the woman behind the television series “Scandal,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Private Practice” to the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees. Shonda...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses the nation during the Westgate Mall crisis on September 22, 2013. PHOTO/Reuters (Reuters) – Kenya’s president said on Tuesday that his...
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses The UN General Assembly, September 21, 2011. PHOTO/Spencer Platt/Getty Images Seeking to build on diplomatic opportunities, U.S. President Barack Obama is...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will try to put some distance between himself and a battle with Republicans over government...
U.S. President Barack Obama (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will ask to business leaders on Wednesday to urge Congress to approve an increase in the...
By Ryan Elcock It is amazing how much clarity one can have when they take time to process all the crazy things that have transpired over...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday he would not negotiate with Congress over whether to raise the U.S....
U.S. President Barack Obama postponed his threat to strike Syria, after Bashar al-Assad’s regime welcomed a Russian plan to gather and destroy its chemical arsenal. In...
U.S. President Barack Obama is going to Congress on Tuesday with fresh hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough that would allow Syria’s government to avoid U.S. missile...
U.S. President Barack Obama has the authority to launch air strikes against Syria. But he has to notify lawmakers in Congress, a process which has begun,...
(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama called the apparent gassing of hundreds of Syrian civilians a “big event of grave concern” but stressed on Friday that...
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his iconic “I have a dream speech” August 28, 1963. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Marches, speeches and global bell-ringing are set...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama returned to Washington on Sunday after a brief summer vacation readying for what is expected to be a...
U.S. President Barack Obama is pledging to do everything he can to make sure the new health care law works the way he intended. In his...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama is proposing to overhaul the nation’s mortgage finance system, including shutting down government-backed Fannie Mae and Freddie...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama, seeking to break Washington’s fiscal stalemate, is proposing cutting corporate tax rates in exchange for more spending on...
African American lawmakers on Tuesday urged U.S. President Barack Obama to do something about changes to a college loan program that they say make it tougher...
By Tony Elumelu Last week was the first time, in my memory, that a US president came to Africa with investment at the top of his...
U.S. President Barack Obama and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete stand for the national anthem at the State House in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, July 1, 2013....
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP US President Barack Obama said Friday he would not press for a much-awaited meeting with his critically...
Obama visits his grandmother in Kenya before his presidency By Yetnayet Z. Demissie and Dennis Matanda While its well within some people’s right to gripe about...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Twelve years after the “war on terror” began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from...
A younger Barack Obama with his grandmother during his first trip to Africa to visit the family of his father, Barack Obama, Sr. PHOTO/Maya Soetoro-Ng President...
British Prime Minister David Cameron (l) with U.S. President Barack Obama at a past meeting. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is welcoming British Prime Minister David Cameron...
U.S. President Obama waves as he leaves the White House. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama is not injured and there have not been explosions at the White...
U.S. President Obama pauses as he remarks on Boston bombings. PHOTO/Mark Wilson/Getty Images (Reuters) – President Barack Obama vowed on Monday that the United States will...
U.S. President Barack Obama discusses the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget while acting Director of Office of Management and Budget Jerry Zients looks on. PHOTO/Reuters (Reuters) –...
U.S. President Barack Obama with Vice President Joseph Biden and relatives of gun violence victims. PHOTO/Mark Wilson/Getty Images President Barack Obama is providing rides to 11...
Robin Kelly. PHOTO/Charles Rex Arbogast/AP President Barack Obama on Tuesday endorsed Robin Kelly in the race to replace Jesse Jackson Jr., who resigned from the seat...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivering the State of The Union Address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington., Feb 12, 2013. PHOTO/Charles...
U.S. President Barack Obama with Vice President Joseph Biden and relatives of gun violence victims. PHOTO/Mark Wilson/Getty Images U.S. President Barack Obama urged lawmakers Thursday to...
US President Barack Obama shakes hands with active duty US service members after they became US citizens during a naturalization ceremony in the East Room of...
U.S. President Barack Obama meets President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmood Abbas. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama says Palestinians deserve an independent and sovereign state and...
U.S. President Barack Obama (c), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (r) and Israeli President Shimon Peres (l) listen to the national anthem at Israel’s Ben Gurion...
U.S. President Barack Obama with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan ‘The people you see in Nigeria today,’ China Achebe once said, ‘have always lived as neighbors in...
Dr. Benjamin Carson, director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, delivers remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland,...
U.S. President Barack Obama President Barack Obama says an expanded anti-violence bill is a ‘‘victory’’ for advocates and survivors of domestic violence. Obama is speaking at...
U.S. President Barack Obama greets Republican leaders, Speaker John Boehner (c) and Eric Cantor (r). PHOTO/ Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images After weeks of stalemate with Republican leadership...
Uncle Sam is an elderly man with white hair and a goatee. He usually wears a white top hat with white stars on a blue band,...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivering the State of The Union Address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington., Feb 12, 2013. PHOTO/Charles...
American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images U.S. President Barack Obama argued Friday for keeping a key provision of federal voting rights law in place, saying it will...
By Emmanuel Musaazi U.S. President Barack Obama making a point during one in a series of meetings in the Situation Room of the White House discussing...
A White House official said President Obama will deliver the commencement address at all-male Morehouse College in Atlanta this spring. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr....
U.S. President Barack Obama with former Sen. Chuck Hagel. PHOTO/Salah Malkawi/Getty Images Senate Democrats and the White House struggled to break an impasse Thursday over Chuck...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivering the State of The Union Address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington., Feb 12, 2013. PHOTO/Charles...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai listens as U.S. President Obama speaks during a news conference at the White House on Jan. 11, 2013. PHOTO/Whitehouse.org President Barack Obama...
By Brian Laung Aoaeh Africa is experiencing a boom in entrepreneurship due to proliferating Internet and mobile computing technologies. Simultaneously African startups face the often life-threatening...
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Pope Benedict XVI, Friday, July 10, 2009, at the Vatican. PHOTO/Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP President Barack Obama is sending his thanks...
U.S. President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden (L) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), delivers his State of the Union address before a...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill raising the government’s borrowing limit, averting a default and delaying the next...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Just as President Barack Obama is pushing new initiatives on gun control and immigration, the gloomy old problem of a sluggish...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Seeking swift action on immigration, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will try to rally public support behind his proposals for giving...
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with law enforcement officials, Jan.28. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster, AP President Barack Obama kept up pressure on Congress Monday to pass tough new...
An Acrylic Painting: Founding Fathers Tableau by Stephen Warde Anderson Although they’d not recognize their meticulously designed political entity these 200 years later, America’s Founding Fathers...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Most Americans respond positively to the stricter gun control measures President Barack Obama proposed last week in the wake of the...
U.S. President Barack Obama recites the oath of office, as first lady Michelle Obama looks on. PHOTO/Alex Wong/Getty Images President Barack Obama devoted one word –...
Cartoon by Peter Schrank for The Economist By the time Obama was ceremonially sworn in at the U.S. Capitol Building, he had officially been President for...
President Barack Obama speaks at his ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol, Monday, January 21, 2013. PHOTO/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Declaring “our journey is not complete,” President...
U.S. President Barack Obama is sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts, not pictured, in the Blue Room of the White House during the 57th Presidential...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Braced for a fight, President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades,...
A younger Barack Obama with his grandmother during his first trip to Africa to visit the family of his father, Barack Obama, Sr. PHOTO/Maya Soetoro-Ng The...
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama is forging ahead on a wide-ranging plan to overhaul the U.S. immigration system early this year, including a path to citizenship...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai listens as U.S. President Obama speaks during a news conference at the White House on Friday. PHOTO/Whitehouse.org Uneasy allies, President Barack Obama...
U.S. President Barack Obama with former Sen. Chuck Hagel. PHOTO/Salah Malkawi/Getty Images (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will nominate former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel to be...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/Charles Dharapak Obama: “Fiscal cliff” deal follows principle that deficit needs to be cut in a balanced way. President Barack Obama said...
Lisa Jackson The Obama administration’s chief environmental watchdog, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson, is stepping down after a nearly four-year tenure marked by high-profile...
The following is a compilation of individuals who we feel have made tremendous contributions to world, and have impacted the lives of people globally descent during...
US President Barack Obama (l) congratulates Senator John Kerry after nominating him as Secretary of State. PHOTO/Mandel Ngan/AFP US President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Senator...
Robert Johnson Business man and entrepreneur, Robert Johnson, renewed his call for President Obama to address the gaping employment gap that has long separated black and...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/Reuters President Barack Obama is launching an administration-wide effort to curb gun violence, underscoring the growing political consensus over tightening gun restrictions...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) shakes hands with Speaker of the House John Boehner (l) during a meeting with bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) with the Speaker of the house John Boehner. PHOTO/File Amid increasing anxiety that the White House and top Republicans are wasting...
Before November 2012, the last Republican to lose to Barack Obama was unfortunate. Not only was he dealt a remarkably bad hand by the global financial...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File As President Obama prepares for his second term, preparations have begun for the traditional shuffling of the Cabinet. Top priority for...
President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Obama’s coalition came through for him big time on Election Day, and now members of the coalition want him to return...
(Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday formally proposed new rules requiring insurers to cover people with preexisting conditions and set minimum health benefits to millions...
President Obama won a second term last week, but it wasn’t a great week for other African-American candidates. Despite Obama’s big win, there remain no black...
President Barack Obama was expected to make his first public comments Wednesday on the growing scandal around two of the country’s most well-known generals, while lawmakers...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the economy and the deficit, Friday, November 9, 2012. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/AP President Barack Obama says raising taxes on wealthiest Americans...
Re-elected U.S.President Barack Obama with Speaker John Boehner. PHOTO/AP Taking little time to celebrate, President Barack Obama is setting out to leverage his re-election into legislative...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) accompanied by N.J Gov. Chris Christie (l) hugs storm victim Donna Vanzant as he tours damage done by Hurricane Sandy in...
U.S. President Barack Obama with officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). PHOTO/Nicholas Kramm/AFP/Getty Images The politics of Hurricane Sandy are obviously difficult to game...
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell meets with President Barack Obama, in the Oval Office. PHOTO/AP Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a longtime Republican, is...
Tonight, in the last debate between President Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts came out looking like he could be America’s...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File With fewer than three weeks until Election Day, new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) speaks as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (l) and moderator Candy Crowley (c) listen during a town hall style debate at...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney With the White House race barreling toward the finish, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger...
By Emmanuel Musaazi A rule of thumb in American politics is that if you are conservative, then you are more likely to be white and vote...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney have sparred over economic...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney come face to face for the first...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are hunkering down for intense preparations ahead...
