Category: National News

President Barack Obama poses for a photo with Jewel Burks and Jason Crain, Atlanta, Ga. of Partpic, while hosting top innovators and startup founders from across the country for the first White House Demo Day, Aug. 4, 2015, in the State Dinning Room of the White House in Washington. Partpic allows customers to take a […]

High school students nationwide can now apply at DisneyDreamersAcademy.com to be among 100 selected to participate in the 2016 Disney Dreamers Academy with Steve Harvey and ESSENCE, the outside-the-classroom, educational mentoring program at Walt Disney World Resort. Entering the search for its ninth class of Dreamers, Disney Dreamers Academy continues to hold true to its […]

President Barack Obama retrieves a club from a cart while golfing Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, at Farm Neck Golf Club, in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Obama is spending his first full day of vacation on the island playing golf. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) OAK BLUFFS, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama […]

For hundreds of millions of Africans, 2015 remains a dark age and sunset signals hours of darkness and hours of lost study time, stifled industry and even poorer health services, as medicines cannot be refrigerated. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators led by Maryland Democrat Benjamin Cardin are hoping to bring 50 million of those […]

AIR STATION CAPE COD, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama has arrived in Massachusetts for his annual summer vacation. President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha walk off of Marine One and head towards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Friday, Aug. 7, 2015. The president will return […]

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall The 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act is marked on Aug. 6. In 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Act surrounded by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights martyrs. Untold Black lives paid the price for all citizens to cast a ballot free of intimidation. Yet, today, […]

President Barack Obama launched a blistering denunciation of opposition to his Iran deal Aug. 5th, arguing that none of the criticism stands up to scrutiny and warning that if Congress blocks the accord it will put the U.S. on the path to another Middle East war. President Obama said the nuclear deal with Iran builds […]

2:27 P.M. EDT South Court Auditorium—- Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., listens at right as President Barack Obama speaks in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, on the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) THE PRESIDENT:  Thank […]

On July 31, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced a new initiative, “The Second Chance Pell Pilot Program.” This proposed program would allow inmates to received Pell Grants to pursue college and trade school education. Pell Grants are federal funds available to low-income higher education students that don’t need to be repaid. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, […]

R. Donahue Peebles is a wealthy Black real estate investor and developer. (AFRO File Photo) U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) resigned as the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) on July 30. This is the result of a 29-count indictment filed against him by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia on July 29 for misappropriating […]

Paulette Brown is the new president of the American Bar Association. (AFRO File Photo) Paulette Brown became the first Black woman elected as the president of the American Bar Association (ABA) at its annual meeting July 30 – Aug. 4 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Brown, a partner and chief diversity officer with the law firm of Locke Lord […]

Feb. 26, 2014: An election official checks a voter’s photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court struck down Texas’ voter ID law on Wednesday in a victory for the Obama administration, which had taken the unusual step of bringing […]