Roland Martin and the Washington Watch roundtable discuss President Obama’s meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus and their attempts to push the President to do more for African-Americans. The CBC opposed the House Financial Services Bill by demanding more money verses not voting for it at all. As a result they obtained $4 billion in […]
Roland Martin talks with Ron Lester, one of the top Democratic pollsters in the country about President Obama announcing his bid for re-election. Lester explained how President Obama can win a second term in the Oval Office. LISTEN:
New York– President Obama will be joining Rev. Al Sharpton in New York Wednesday to speak at the National Action Network rally.
President Obama, speaking at the ‘White House Conference on Bullying Prevention’ this week, said that as a child he was bullied for his ‘big ears’ and his unusual name. He states that he ‘didn’t emerge unscathed’ from the torment, and stressed that ‘bullying is not a rite of passage for youth, but a practice that […]
Mogul Kevin Liles was honored to join forces with the music industry’s top entertainers to campaign for the first African American President in US history, Barack Obama.
Roland Martin analyzes the television coverage, President Obama’s speech and the memorial event for the victims of the tragic shooting in Arizona entitled “Together We Thrive: Tucson and America.” LISTEN:
Roland Martin talks with Clarence Lusane about his new book The Black History of the White House. LISTEN:
President Obama showed up to Bowie State University in Maryland to speak at a re-election rally for the state’s Democratic governor Martin O’Mally. Although he spoke at Bowie State as a candiate Obama presence was the first time a sitting president ever spoke at the Maryland HBCU. The president, the governor and Maryland’s Democratic congressional […]
President Obama will release a children’s book, titled “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters,” on Nov. 16. EURweb has the story here.
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: President Obama is urging Congress to approve a D.C. voting rights bill, just as one is scheduled to come before the U.S. House of Representatives next week. Although Obama has long indicated he supported giving District residents a vote on Congress, some advocates have accused him of being too silent on […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Tens of thousands of kids from across the country descended on the White House’s South Lawn on Monday to play football, basketball and golf and watch performances from the likes of Sara Bareilles, Justin Bieber and the cast of the hit TV show “Glee.” Oh, and they also got to roll […]
VIA USA TODAY: The unemployment rate remains at 9.7 %, though employers added 162,000 jobs in March, the Labor Department just reported. The news comes as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the economy is recovering, but it will take many months to dig out from the recent financial crisis. The unemployment rate will “stay unacceptably […]
