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March 29, 2010

Obama announces 15 recess appointments, scolds GOP

WASHINGTON (AP) - Fed up with waiting, President Barack Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name…
March 26, 2010

Black joblessness is Obama’s next big challenge

OPINION - The bitter new reality is that the job crisis is no longer Bush's crisis. It's Obama's...
March 26, 2010

US, Russia to sign first nuclear arms treaty in decades

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says the treaty will limit both sides to 1,550 warheads each -- about 30…
March 26, 2010

11-year-old health reform advocate on witnessing history

VIDEO - Marcelas Owens talks about his experience as he stood next to the president when he signed landmark health…
March 25, 2010

Black GOP candidate calls Obama ‘Buckwheat’

VIDEO - Florida congressional candidate Corey Poitier at first defended his remark saying, "People love Buckwheat."...
March 25, 2010

Congress completes overhaul of health care

VIDEO - Capping an epic struggle, congressional Democrats put the final touches to historic legislation enshrining health care as the…
March 25, 2010

Obama on GOP’s plan to repeal reform: ‘Go for it’

VIDEO - "If they want to have that fight, we can have it. Because I don't believe the American people…
March 25, 2010

106-year-old Obama inauguration guest dies

VIDEO - Former social worker Ella Mae Johnson traveled to Washington with her nurse in January 2009 and watched as…
March 25, 2010

Obama seeks additional $2.8 billion for Haiti

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama is asking Congress for $2.8 billion in emergency funding for the reconstruction effort in Haiti...
March 24, 2010

Obama attacks wealth inequality in health reform bill

The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began…
March 24, 2010

Obama signs order on abortion in health care bill

WASHINGTON (AP) - With little fanfare, President Obama signed an executive order designed to ensure that no federal money can…
March 24, 2010

Urban League: Health, jobs legislation fall short

WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Urban League says in urging President Obama to promote a "jobs surge" that targets hard-hit…
March 24, 2010

Senate on health bill’s final chapter, maybe

VIDEO - The main suspense surrounding this week's debate is whether the fix-it bill can emerge from the Senate unchanged..
March 24, 2010

What we can learn from ACORN’s fall

OPINION - By choosing to represent the interests of poor people and minorities in a capitalist democracy, the forces of…
March 23, 2010

How Obama’s health overhaul will work

VIDEO - President Obama held his signing ceremony for his health care overhaul on Tuesday, but the major expansion of…
March 23, 2010

Obama signs landmark health reform bill

VIDEO - President Obama caps a yearlong political drama by signing into law a landmark legislation that had been seen…
March 23, 2010

Tea partiers vow revenge over health overhaul

VIDEO - If you thought Tea Party activists were mad before, you ain't seen nothing yet...
March 23, 2010

Sharpton and Morial: Hold Obama to the same standard as past presidents (VIDEO)

VIDEO - The need for President Barack Obama to outline a specific agenda for blacks has been the center of…
March 23, 2010

Five ways Democrats can trump GOP scare tactics

OPINION - The passage of health care reform, to be signed by President Obama on Tuesday, is truly historic; unfortunately,…
March 22, 2010

Black leaders to Obama: ‘We have a right to expect something’

In the words of Princeton Professor Cornel West, it was about "a black face in a high place.''...