Politics
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Obama's Day, June 13: Honoring Israeli President Shimon Peres
THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORWEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2012 In the afternoon, the President and the Vice President will hold a bilateral meeting with President Shimon Peres of Israel. This meeting in the Oval Office is closed press. Later in the afternoon, the President will attend…
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Pardoned Prisoners Ask Obama to Fix System
This week a group of 16 formerly incarcerated people who received sentence commutations from Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama asked President Obama to make sure that others in their position get the same chance at a fair review from the administration’s pardon attorney. They have reason to believe that’s not happening these days. Their letter,…
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Obama's Day, June 12: Campaign Events in Maryland and Philly
THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2012 In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. Later in the morning, the President will depart the White House en route Baltimore, Maryland. The President’s…
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Obama's Day, June 11: 'Live From the White House' Interviews
THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORMONDAY, JUNE 11, 2012 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. Later in the morning, as part of Live From the White House, the…
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Purging Democracy in the Sunshine State
(Special to The Root) — What’s old is new. Florida’s Secretary of State Ken Detzner is boldly refusing to comply with the Department of Justice’s demand that the state stop its efforts to purge voters from the registration rolls. On Wednesday, he sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice claiming that the purge…
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Romney's Urban Education Plan Is Disastrous
In a piece for the Huffington Post, Christopher Emdin provides five serious critiques of the Republican’s approach. This positioning of educational inequities as a civil rights issue has been a part of the discourse for decades among educational researchers and experts lamenting the increasing educational gaps among youth from different race and class backgrounds. However,…
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Book Reveals More on Obama's Teen Years
Eleven things you might not know about the young Obama: The Washington Post reports on some more highlights from David Maraniss’ Barack Obama: The Story. “Black and white” twins celebrate 7th birthday: The headline-making little girls, whom some of us would call instead “the darker- and lighter-skinned fraternal twins, who are both the same race,”…
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Obama Targets L.A.'s Black Elite
Just after new reports that Mitt Romney and the Republican Party outraised President Obama and the Democrats in the month of May, Obama did some work to make up the difference, attending a fundraising breakfast in View Park, Calif., where 300 people paid $2,500 and up for the honor. The target audience, the Washington Post…
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The Future of the 'Tan Generation'
(The Root) — Recent census data reveal that, for the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half of all children born in the United States, with 50.4 percent of children under age 1 identified as Hispanic, black, Asian American or members of another ethnic minority group. In terms of the overall…