Today is our 44th President’s 49th birthday and in true workaholic fashion he is spending the day in Washington, D.C. and Chicago on the job. Click here to sign President Barack Obama’s birthday card!
President Obama signed legislation on Tuesday reducing longstanding federal sentencing disparities between those caught with crack and those arrested with powder cocaine, finalizing a bipartisan consensus addressing a racially polarizing law enforcement debate.
President Obama arrived in Atlanta at approximately 10:40 am this morning. He is town for a fundraiser and will also be addressing a group of veterans.
President Obama on Thursday urged Shirley Sherrod, the black Georgia Agriculture Department official whose firing and subsequent offer of rehiring this week renewed a conversation about politics and race, to continue "her hard work on behalf of those in need."
President Barack Obama will make a rare fund-raising trip to Atlanta next month for the Democratic National Committee and Organizing America, the successor grassroots organization to Obama’s ‘08 campaign effort.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Arizona to challenge a new state law intended to combat illegal immigration, arguing that it would undermine the federal government’s pursuit of terrorists, gang members and other criminal immigrants.
Recently freed rapper T.I. has been making the media rounds since his release from prison, and today the Atlanta MC/actor paid a visit to his hometown station, Atlanta's Hot 107.9 and "The Rickey Smiley Morning Show."
There has been a good deal of speculation that President Barack Obama was in the video for Tag Team’s 1990 single “Whoomp There It Is.” Many websites have put up the video, claiming that the current President was an extra in the video.
President Barack Obama bluntly defended his administration's response to the undersea gusher fouling the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, telling an interviewer he has met with experts to learn "whose ass to kick."
During African-American Music Appreciation Month, we celebrate the extraordinary legacy of African-American singers, composers, and musicians, as well as their indelible contributions to our Nation and our world, according to a statement from the White House.
A teacher in Birmingham, Alabama picked the wrong example when he used assassinating President Barack Obama as a way to teach angles to his geometry students.
For the first time as president, Barack Obama on Sunday delivered a commencement address to a historically black college, Hampton University, telling graduates that they have “a separate responsibility” to become mentors to other young African-Americans.
