IBW21 (The Institute of the Black World 21st Century) is committed to enhancing the capacity of Black communities in the U.S. and globally to achieve cultural, social, economic and political equality and an enhanced quality of life for all marginalized people.
Criticism is mounting over reported remarks last week of DEA chief Michele Leonhart in a speech to the Major Counties Sheriffs Association. Leonhart criticized her boss, President Obama, for acknowledging in a recent interviewthat marijuana is not more dangerous than alcohol and that the experiments with marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington were “important.”
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to students at the Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina in Havana today:
Socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant ripped not only President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night, but the Democrats and Republicans alongside him as he delivered it.
And… action! There he is, tall and lean, his pleasant face composed in an expression at once cheerful and slightly supercilious.
Here are two takeaways from the most Clintonian speech Barack Obama ever gave.
The day before President Obama’s fifth State of the Union Address, Valerie Jarrett, assistant to the president, bluntly told this writer in an exclusive interview that Obama would not hesitate to use the power of his pen to get action on vital initiatives that he feels should be passed.
When President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address Tuesday, it is widely expected that he will focus on income inequality, making it a top-of-the-agenda item for this year and the remainder of his term.
For his 90th birthday, a rollicking celebration at Madison Square Garden paid tribute to the extraordinary activist musician.
President Obama again cast an ugly glare on the race tainted drug laws in a recent interview and in reports from the White House.
The intrinsic, infectious nature of Brazil’s alegria is not to be understated — affecting culture and policy in equal measure.
On Monday, the president’s allies leaked the top points of his State of The Union speech to be delivered tonight and left no doubts that Obama would focus on America’s lack of upward mobility.
By Robert Borosage Guides to the president’s State of the Union address are a dime a dozen. The annual ritual has even spawned drinking games: a shot for every time…
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