Barack Obama’s Half-Brother To Run For Governor In Kenya
Malik Obama, president Barack Obama’s older half-brother, announced he will run for governor in the Kenyan county of Siaya, Bloomberg reports. The elder Obama announced his candidacy as an independent in a rally on Sunday. “Siaya county is facing a lot of problems from poor infrastructure to poverty due to bad leadership,” Obama said, [...]
U.S. Census Bureau May Stop Using ‘Negro’ Classification On The Questionnaire
The U.S. Census Bureau may drop the term Negro from its questionnaire by 2020. The Census Bureau may also change some other minor aspects of the form regarding racial classification, because advocacy groups pushed for more updated categories to reflect cultural trends. The term Negro is listed alongside black and African-American. As first reported by [...]
Tavis Smiley: The Last of the Loud
This past Sunday on “Meet the Press,” the presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said the following, “Latinos, women and young people — that is the new governing coalition.” OUCH. To be sure, there are Black folk in each of those categories. But since President Obama’s victory on Election Day, I have been troubled by the [...]
Obama’s Appeal to Working Class Whites Might Make the Difference in this Election
As the 2012 presidential election closes in, we can all see that the race is close. President Obama has maintained his coalition from 2008, but it’s questionable that he has a broad enough appeal to get back into the White House. The economy has been the leading point of contention, and the primary reason [...]
Stacey Dash Responds to Twitter Backlash for Supporting Mitt Romney on “Piers Morgan Tonight”
On Tuesday evening, actress Stacey Dash appeared on “Piers Morgan Tonight” for a live interview which proved to be very interesting and revealing. Dash has been on many headlines since she took to social media, using Twitter to support and endorse Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Dash is best known for playing the role of [...]
Samuel L. Jackson Releases New Obama Ad: “Wake the F*ck Up”
If you don’t mind a little profanity, this ad is entertaining. As a spin-off to the bedtime story, “Go the F*ck to Sleep,” Samuel is now in the business of campaigning for President Obama in ways that only he is allowed to do. As a megastar and A-list actor, Jackson has built his career on [...]
Two Men Accused of Stealing from President Obama
Three men in President Obama’s hometown of Chicago are being accused of depositing two checks that were stolen from the president’s campaign headquarters. Jessie Adams has been arrested for telling Willard Elam and another man to open up bank accounts so that the checks could be deposited. To make the deposits, the men pretended [...]
President Obama Clowns Clint Eastwood on Twitter
During the Republican National Convention, Clint Eastwood gave a strange 10 minute speech that consisted of a lot of rambling. The headlines generated by Eastwood almost took the show away from Mitt Romney, who happened to be announcing his acceptance of the Republican nomination that night. One interesting part of the speech is when Eastwood [...]
First Lady Michelle Obama Talks about Private Life as the First Family
First Lady Michelle Obama has been all over the place. She’s the prized presidential proxy in this election and her popularity is being used extensively to help her husband keep the family in the White House. This week, the first lady sat with iVillage to talk about life as the first family and how she [...]
President Obama Says He Uses Beyonce to get His Heart Rate Up
What does President Obama do when he wants to get his heart rate up? He turns on Beyonce. Now, this doesn’t mean that the president says that Beyonce turns him on. Instead, he says that songs like “Crazy in Love” help to get his heart rate going when he’s working out. He didn’t say whether [...]
Michelle Allegedly Planned to Leave Barack, but Does That Make Her a Bad Wife?
In this video, Nomalanga Mhauli-Moses speaks with Dr. Boyce Watkins about the recent revelation that Michelle Obama drew up divorce papers against Barack Obama and planned to leave him in the year 2000. Does that make her a bad wife or a normal one? The video is below:
Mississippi And Alabama GOP Voters Think Interracial Marriage Should Be Illegal
A recent survey by Public Policy Polling showed that almost half of likely GOP voters in Mississippi and Alabama think the president is Muslim. They also largely don’t believe in evolution in either state. The topic, however, upon which these states seem to be most out of touch with the rest of the country [...]
Wow: Most Mississippi Republicans Still Think Obama is a Muslim
President Obama attended a Christian church, the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, for two decades. If you ask Obama about his religious affiliation, he makes it clear that he’s a Christian. But for some reason, people in Alabama, Mississippi and other states that have historically hated black people refuse to believe the president’s [...]
Dr. Boyce: How Does Pres. Obama Fit Into Black History?
For many centuries, the epitome of African American achievement has been to become the first black president. We once talked about it like it was the impossible dream, or the ultimate sign that we have arrived. Well, Barack Obama didn’t just talk about the dream, he went out and turned it into a [...]
President old Chrysler being offered on eBay for $1 million
If you’ve got $1 million and a burning desire for a 2005 Chrysler 300C once driven by the then-senator, you can snag it on eBay. Obama leased the car until 2007, when he replaced it with a greener Ford Escape hybrid, reports CNN. Chicago’s Tim O’Boyle bought it from a showroom — only [...]