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Obama, Hillary Clinton to Appear on '60 Minutes'
President Barack Obama and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton might have been adversaries on the 2008 campaign trail but the POTUS had high praise for his Cabinet member on Friday. During a taping for 60 Minutes, Obama complimented Clinton on a job well done, reports the Daily News. “I just wanted to have a…
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Obama Announces McDonough as Chief of Staff
On Friday, the POTUS announced David Plouffe, his head political strategist, is stepping down, and Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough will step in as chief of staff, according to the Washington Post. McDonough, 43, replaced Jack Lew, whom Obama has nominated to run the Treasury Department. White House officials said Tony Blinken, a national security…
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Obama's Inauguration Address Was Conservative
If the president’s speech was judged to be the opposite of conservative, then conservatism is in worse shape than we thought, David Swerdlick writes at the Hill. Hardly a liberal call to arms, Obama’s second inaugural was a conservative speech that touched on universal, almost inarguable themes that recast the traditional American dream in a…
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Is Tavis Smiley Fascinated With His Own Legacy?
Writing at BlackAmericaWeb, Tom Joyner gives his take on the criticism of President Obama’s use of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Bible at his swearing-in. Tavis’s commentary on CBS News Sunday Morning was both, a tribute to his hero Dr. King and a slam at his nemesis President Barack Obama. This is nothing new. In the…
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Tough Voting Protections: Fair?
(The Root) — Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act says that certain jurisdictions can change their voting laws only with federal approval or by winning a court challenge. This part was first enacted in 1965 as a temporary law. It took a hard look at states and districts with low voter participation and regulations…
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Our Kids Aren't Treated Equally at School
(Special to The Root) — Continuing their historical practice of working together to address issues of concern to the African-American community, the NAACP, National Urban League, United Negro College Fund and NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund are working cooperatively to improve educational opportunities for all students. This week, we will run op-eds by the…
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UNCF Honors Students and Stars
(The Root) — A Howard University graduate, comic actor Anthony Anderson seems like a logical choice to host the television broadcast of UNCF An Evening of Stars when it airs on local and national cable channels this weekend. The program spotlights students from various HBCUs and other colleges and universities including Spelman, Wiley, Johnson C.…
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Inaugural Balling: Kicking Off 4 More Years
(The Root) — On Saturday, Jan. 19, black luminaries filed into the Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., for The Root’s second Inaugural Ball. More than 1,100 guests were in attendance as champagne flowed, DJs spinned and the band played to honor President Obama’s second swearing-in. Actors, activists, politicians and other notables graced our…
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North Carolina HBCUs Tackle Hazing
Does being asked to pick up an elderly member of your sorority and take her shopping constitute hazing? What about if an organization’s new recruits are tasked with building a mountain of bricks overnight? Those were some of the questions debated by the North Carolina HBCU students who participated in the Jan. 23 “Hazing Hurts”…
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Rosa Parks Stamp to Be Unveiled on Her 100th Birthday
Civil rights icon Rosa Parks would have been 100 years old on Feb. 4. To celebrate the life of the woman who spurred a movement to end legally sanctioned racial discrimination when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, the U.S. Postal Service will unveil a…
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