How do you feel about President Obama’s Jobs Act speech?

President Barack Obama will address both chambers of Congress Thursday to unveil his plan to create jobs, but not everyone plans to attend. Despite buzz that Congress might ring in a new era of bipartisanship by choosing “prom night” seating for the speech — crossing aisle to sit with members of the other party — […]

I ran across an AMAZING video of Lauryn Hill earlier this week via Concrete Loop. In the video, which was filmed 10 years ago, Lauryn Hill speaks to High School students about her career, childhood and more.

This week President Barack Obama traveled to Philadelphia, PA to deliver his second annual back-to-school speech at the Julia Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School.  Several dignitaries joined President Obama to support and encourage the kids to take control of their future and succeed this school year.

A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans’ hard economic times. GOP leaders instantly assailed Obama’s proposal as an ineffective one that would simply raise already excessive […]

Forty-seven years after thousands of people converged on the Washington Mall to stand together to protest the inhumane challenges blacks in America faced in 1963, organizers of the “Reclaim the Dream” march are looking to ignite change again on Saturday, Aug. 28 with another mass gathering in Washington. “In 1963, they had a dream, and […]

Basheer Jones Gives Commencement Speech To Cleveland Students. 2010 Graduating Class

President Obama spoke at the Town Hall Education Arts & Recreation Campus in Anacostia, Washington D.C. and had some words for fathers on Father’s Day.

First lady Michelle Obama gave the commencement speech at George Washington University challenging the graduates Sunday to “keep giving” through community service work and to “keep engaging” with the world. Obama spoke to some 5,000 graduates and their families at the ceremony on the National Mall. She agreed to be their speaker after students, faculty […]