Politics

Colorlines‘ Rinku Sen says that President Obama, who could be “the most deportingest president in history,” needs a push when it comes to immigration reform. A very short post for this holiday. As you’re spending time with the kids of your family and friends this weekend, see if they’ll write and send a letter to…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORMONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing. This meeting is closed press. Later in the morning, the President will meet with senior advisors in the Oval Office. This meeting…

There will be another term of President Obama in the White House, but in a piece in the Washington Post, Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel says the fight is far from over. Instead of spending energy celebrating the recent win, the Washington insider says that now it’s time to…

(The Root) — President Barack Obama has been a target of endless criticism since taking office, most notably from conservative corners, as well as from some blatant racists. But despite the nearly universal support he enjoyed among African Americans in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, some of his most impassioned critics have come…

President Obama was re-elected weeks ago, but Arizona just completed its ballot counting on Wednesday. Colorlines’ columnist Aura Bogado digs into how it can take one state so long to tally its ballots, and why the state has done the same thing over the last two presidential elections. That Latinos would have concerns about the…

President Obama has long said that his wife Michelle is more popular than he is, and in some ways he’s right. On Saturday, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry and her guests, including Katie Mccormick Lelyveld, former press secretary for the first lady, discussed Mrs. Obama’s first four years in the White House, and what many feel…

Some of New York’s public middle schools are stellar, but few children of color are able to take advantage of those educational opportunities. For example, according to the Daily News, only 17 percent of the 569 students at Manhattan’s Anderson School for gifted children are of color.  The revelation comes on the heels of an…

On Nov. 6, President Obama won four more years in the White House, but what nation are we, exactly? This is the question New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow parses as he runs down the states, like Mississippi and Texas, where locals have signed secession petitions following the last election.  The gap is growing…

(The Root) — President Obama’s landslide victory on Nov. 6 was won amid a culture war between the haves and have-nots. Republican candidate Mitt Romney openly admitted that he wasn’t “concerned about the very poor,” and he privately derided the “47 percent” of Americans who don’t pay federal income taxes, claiming they should learn to…

Americans have given President Obama a second term, and now African-American leaders who encouraged voter turnout are looking for leverage. From job programs that combat high black unemployment to calling for fiscal-cliff action that doesn’t burden middle- to low-income Americans, activists like Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP President Benjamin Jealous are seeking solutions, reports the…