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THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORMONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012 In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing. This meeting is closed press. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.

Samuel L. Jackson famously said in an Ebony interview that he voted for President Obama because he’s black. Associated Press race and ethnicity reporter Jesse Washington digs into whether other black Americans are taking a page from the actor’s book in next month’s election or if their reasons are drawn from as far back as slavery. Are…

(The Root) — When Walter Kimbrough opted last July to helm 143-year-old Dillard University, his choice stumped friends and colleagues who knew some of what Dillard was up against. Compounding the costs of running the New Orleans campus is a $160 million federal loan for post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction, a repayment that Kimbrough calculates could consume…

In New Jersey, a man who displayed a photo of President Obama dressed as a witch doctor is wondering what all the fuss is about. Bill Skuby, a shop owner, says the image just represents his political position, but has removed the depiction, which was sat in his store’s window, in response to criticism, reports…

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry’s recent interview with President Obama will appear in the November issue of Ebony magazine. As a precursor, on Saturday Harris-Perry and her guests discussed whether it’s possible for African Americans to re-seat Obama for another four years. Watch Melissa Harris-Perry and her guests discuss Obama’s re-election possibilities: Watch more at MSNBC. Like The…

A gun was fired at an Obama campaign office in Denver on Friday, reports CNN. According to a local police spokesperson, Raquel Lopez, there were no injuries, and no one was in the building at the time of the incident. Police did not have a description of a suspect but did have a possible vehicle…

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson hopes that the president emulates his vice president’s winning approach during his next debate against Mitt Romney. … Mostly, Biden did the obvious things that Obama failed to do. The debate started at 9 p.m.; at 9:24, he made the first of three references to Romney’s “47 percent” speech, in…

(The Root) — The vice-presidential debate, which set the table for the Romney-Obama rematch at Hofstra University on Oct. 16, resembled an old-fashioned boxing match between a cagey veteran and a wiry upstart from a GOP Party that is 98 percent white. Unlike President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, who stayed in their corners during…

(The Root) — It’s good to be white. That’s the phrase that kept bouncing around in my head as I watched the vice presidential debate. After absorbing the horrible defeat of President Obama by Mitt Romney in the first debate, I was reminded by Dr. Blair Kelley during This Week in Blackness and The Root’s…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORFRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012 In the evening, the President will have dinner at a local restaurant with winners of a campaign contest. There will be a travel pool spray at the top of the dinner.