Barack Obama

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March 30, 2010

'24' helped make the world safe for a black president

OPINION - The show's depiction of a black American leader may have actually burnished the bona fides of Obama's campaign...
March 30, 2010

After string of successes, Obama signs student loan reform

VIDEO - The legislation has a wide reach. About half of undergraduates receive federal student aid and about 8.5 million…
March 29, 2010

Tea Party channels the Confederacy with reactionary rhetoric

OPINION - After all, President Barack Obama is no monarch sitting on a throne and taxing hapless colonists...
March 29, 2010

Dr. King's legacy on Vietnam sparks new controversy

VIDEO - April 4 is the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1968 assassination, but it is also the…
March 29, 2010

After a week of wins, Obama turns to Afghanistan

KABUL (AP) - President Barack Obama made a secret trip to Afghanistan, turning his attention back on the war and…
March 29, 2010

Obama's second TSA nominee strikes out

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama is back to square one - again - in finding a transportation security chief to…
March 29, 2010

Obama’s big blow to banks: Student loan reform

OPINION - This initiative would save over $60 billion dollars over 10 years by ending subsidies to commercial and private…
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..