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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.''...
March 21, 2010

Health care reform narrowly passes House

WASHINGTON (AP) - Widely viewed as dead two months ago, the Senate-passed bill cleared the House on a 219-212 vote.…
March 21, 2010

Obama looks for another win with student loan plan

WASHINGTON (AP) - With health care dominating House action, President Obama was looking for another domestic policy victory Sunday -…
March 21, 2010

Obama and Dems: ‘We’re well past 216’ votes for health reform

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama and House Democratic leaders struck a last-minute deal Sunday with abortion foes to secure the…
March 21, 2010

Why Smiley and Sharpton are both right about racial politics

OPINION - There is little hope of holding any Democratic president "accountable" to a "Black Agenda."...
March 20, 2010

Obama to Dems: Health reform ‘is in your hands’

VIDEO - Victory within reach, President Obama exhorted House Democrats on Saturday to stay true to their party's legacy and…
March 20, 2010

African-Americans support Obama’s race-neutral stance

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Obama has refused from the beginning of his candidacy to separate the solutions to black America's…
March 20, 2010

Tavis Smiley can’t win with anti-Obama talk

OPINION - While Obama-mania is bad for African-Americans, consistently attacking him in black America is like telling a child that…