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THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTHURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2013 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.

(The Root) — The Republican Party learned one crucial lesson from Mitt Romney’s defeat: The only way it can win the White House is to rig the election. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has publicly endorsed a plan for GOP-controlled legislatures in key battleground states like Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida to alter the…

(The Root) — The man who tried to save my young cousin’s life was born in Mexico. At age 19 he hopped the fence into the U.S. and worked as a farm laborer, then loaded railway cars with sulfur and fish lard, going to community college at night. A few years later, he was a…

(The Root) — Though President Obama’s inauguration for a second term took place just over a week ago, speculation is already rampant regarding who the next black president might be. At the top of many lists is Newark, N.J., mayor and soon-to-be Senate candidate Cory Booker. Booker is telegenic, Ivy League-educated and a Rhodes scholar;…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORWEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. In the afternoon, the President and Secretary Clinton will meet for lunch in…

(The Root) — Do black students purposefully underachieve because they attribute being smart to “acting white”? For more than a decade, academics, policymakers and cultural critics have publicly chided black children for having an anti-intellectual attitude, based on the “Acting White Theory.” The Acting White Theory originated in the 1980s with Dr. John Ogbu’s ethnographic…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2013 In the morning, the President will depart the White House en route Las Vegas, Nevada. The departure from the South Lawn and the arrival at McCarran International Airport are open press. While in Las Vegas, the President…

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…

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…

(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…