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Damon Weaver, Kid Reporter Who Interviewed Barack Obama In 2009, Dies At 23 | National

Damon Weaver, who attained national fame after interviewing President Barack Obama at the White House in 2009, has died. Candace Hardy, Weaver’s sister, told the Palm Beach Post her brother died of natural causes on May 1. He was 23. Further details about his passing have not been released. Weaver, a communications major at Albany

Michelle Obama urges Trump to make ‘smooth transition of power’

Former first lady Michelle Obama urged President Trump to make a “smooth transition of power” to Joe Biden in a lengthy Instagram post on Monday afternoon. Obama reminisced how she struggled when she and her husband welcomed the Donald and Melania Trump to the White House on Inauguration Day in 2017. “Donald Trump had spread

Obama on ’60 Minutes’ tells Trump to ‘put country first,’ concede

Former President Barack Obama urged President Trump to put the country first and concede the election to Joe Biden during a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday night. “My advice to President Trump is, if you want at this late stage in the game to be remembered as somebody who put country first, it’s time for

Obama nails 3-pointer while on campaign trail for Joe Biden

Barack Obama still has game. The former president took time out to shoot some hoops Saturday during a Michigan campaign stop for his one-time Vice President Joe Biden — and hit an impressive, caught-on-video corner shot from the 3-point line, according to CNN. “That’s what I do,” Obama says in a viral video of the

Democrat Biden adds former rival Buttigieg, ex-Obama officials to transition team

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Saturday added former Democratic primary rival Pete Buttigieg, along with senior officials who served under President Barack Obama, to an expanded White House transition team.Biden added four new co-chairs to the team led by his longtime ally Ted Kaufman: New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, former Obama

Barack Obama did not spend $65K on prostitutes, code-named ‘pizza’ and ‘hotdogs’

The claim: Barack Obama spent $65,000 on pizza and hot dogs, which are code names for child prostitutionThe claim about former President Barack Obama has roots in “pizzagate,” a debunked QAnon-esque conspiracy theory spawned during Hillary Clinton’s second presidential campaign. It  alleges that Clinton ran a child sex trafficking ring in the basement of Comet Ping Pong, a

Obama Returns to the DNC With a Chance to Rescue His Legacy From Trump

“But he never did,” Mr. Obama said in the excerpts. “He’s shown no interest in putting in the work, no interest in finding common ground, no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends, no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality

Michelle Obama delivers epic speech on the opening night of the Democratic convention

Good evening, everyone. It’s a hard time, and everyone’s feeling it in different ways. And I know a lot of folks are reluctant to tune into a political convention right now or to politics in general. Believe me, I get that. But I am here tonight because I love this country with all my heart,

Michelle Obama Drops A Truth Bomb And Obliterates Trump

Former First Lady Michelle Obama closed out night one of the Democratic convention that destroyed Trump with total honesty. Obama said: So let me be as honest and clear as I possibly can. Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do

Michelle Obama blames Trump for her ‘low-grade depression’

Former first lady Michelle Obama says she’s suffering from “low-grade depression” in part because of President Trump. “I’m dealing with some form of low-grade depression. Not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife and just seeing this administration. Watching the hypocrisy of it day in and day out is dispiriting,” Obama

Obama Resurrects Hope In His Eulogy to John Lewis

During this past week many of us mourned the loss of John Lewis and the kind of greatness he had.  The iconic civil rights leader was a man who refused to give up or give in after being beaten within an inch of his life.  Those who knew him described him as someone you just

Tucker Carlson Calls Obama A ‘Greasy Politician’ In Unhinged Tantrum Over John Lewis Eulogy

Fox News host Tucker Carlson – whose top writer was forced to resign after he was exposed as a white supremacist – used his primetime program on Thursday to throw a tantrum about Barack Obama’s uplifting eulogy of civil rights hero John Lewis. During Carlson’s meltdown, he called Obama a “greasy politician” and lectured the

Clinton, Bush, Obama Will be at John Lewis Funeral, Trump Will Not

When long-serving and revered lawmakers pass away, it is customary for past and current Presidents to attend the funeral. This hasn’t been the case with Donald Trump. At the request of the family, Trump was not invited to the funeral of legendary Republican John McCain. While Trump did attend the services for former President George

Trump Claims Obama, Biden Spied on His Campaign

President Donald Trump claimed he’s the victim of “presidential harassment” and alleged that former president Barack Obama and former vice president Joe Biden spied on his campaign. PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2020 He later quoted Fox Business personality Maria Bartiromo, writing, without evidence, that Obama and Biden spied on his

Barack Obama Sends Cease-and-Desist Over South Carolina Ad Attacking Joe Biden

Former President Barack Obama called on South Carolina TV stations to stop airing an attack ad that uses his voice to criticize his former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday, accusing Republicans of trying to suppress black voter turnout ahead of the state’s Democratic primary on Saturday. The ad, paid for by pro-Trump PAC the…

In Tribute to Cummings, Obama Hints at Rebuke of Trump

Politics|In Tribute to Cummings, Obama Hints at Rebuke of TrumpThe former president said that Representative Elijah E. Cummings showed that “you’re not a sucker to have integrity.” Former President Barack Obama at the funeral service for Representative Elijah E. Cummings on Friday.Credit...Justin T. Gellerson for The New York TimesOct. 25, 2019WASHINGTON — Former President Barack…

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White Supremacist Donated to Several 2016 Republican Presidential Candidates

The head of a white supremacist group, cited by the suspected gunman who killed nine people at a black South Carolina church last week, has given thousands ...

Obama Survived Republicans, Billionaires, Racists

Reactionary Republicans, Billionaire Financiers, and Hard Core Racists threw everything at Barak Obama. Not only did he remain standing, but he flexed his muscle as chief executive officer of America – defying all odds. The March 9, 2015, open letter sent by Republicans to Iran was but the latest insult to the first African American

Revitalizing the African American Reparations Movement

International Human Rights and Humanitarian Treaties establishing basis for Reparations: The right to effective remedy and duty to provide reparation International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Article 2 1. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction the

In Historic Move, Obama Normalized Relations with Cuba

Obama Normalizes Relations with Cuba As far back as 2009, members of the Congressional Black Caucus had recommended that President Obama normalize relations between Cuba and the US and push for a lifting of the decades-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba. The CBC sent delegations to Havana to dialogue with Havana in pursuit of normalizing relations between

Finally – US Senate Confirms First African-American Women on Georgia’s Federal Courts

LDF Applauds Senate Confirmation of First African-American Women on Georgia’s Federal Courts On November 18, 2014, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., (LDF) welcomed the historic votes by the U.S. Senate to confirm the first African-American female judges ever to serve on Georgia’s federal judiciary. The Senate confirmation of Leslie Abrams to the

Alabama City Remembered as Climactic Battle of Civil Rights Movement

Sunday, August 28, in Washington, President Obama leads the nation in dedicating a new national memorial to the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. King was a southern Baptist minister who rose to become the leading voice of the nation’s modern day civil rights movement during the1950’s and 1960’s. His struggle for equal

Obama Takes the Lead on Doing Business with Africa

Obama Doing Business in Africa    Obama Takes the Lead on Doing Business with Africa Washington, D.C. (United States) (OFFICIAL WIRE) August 5, 2014 EXECUTIVE ORDER   ESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENT’S ADVISORY COUNCIL ON DOING BUSINESS IN AFRICA By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of

African American Politics: A History of Struggle

[wzslider autoplay=”true” transition=”‘slide'” lightbox=”true”] African American Politics: A History of Struggle   In the year 2008, tens of millions of African Americans turned out in historic numbers to propel Barak Obama to the US Democratic Party nomination and, ultimately, the Presidency of the United States.  The turnout in that election was the culmination of a

Nigeria Kidnappings — Who Are the ‘Boko Haram?’

By Andrew Lam Editor’s Note: Professor Michael Watts teaches geography at UC Berkeley and is the author of many books, including “Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria” and “Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta.” He spoke to NAM editor Andrew Lam about the recent kidnappings

Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta

Questions and Answers Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta Differences and Similarity between Booker T’s ideas and Du Bois Ideas?Compare and contrast thier ideas. Posted by Chrisna S [display_name id=”1″]1989- Booker T. Washington and WEB Dubois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by Black Americans at the end

Barack Obama's Speeches

Barack Obama’s Speeches – 2008 Democratic National Convention     More references to Barak Obama here at Black Politics References: Barack Obama’s speech on 50th anniversary of March – Christian … Aug 28, 2013 … The full text of the speech by President Obama given Wednesday in Washington on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther

Editor&’s Statement – African American Politics – A History of Struggle

The history of African Americans is a history rich with political struggle. Whether we study the early  slave rebellions, the Civil War, #reconstruction, Post-Reconstruction, the Garvey Movement, the 1960s Civil Rights and Black Power movements, or the rise of Black elected officials up to, and including, the election of Barak Obama, African Americans have engaged in deliberate