We’ve watched the Obamas grow and evolve over the past four years into a great example of family. Here are a few of our favorite family moments caught during the president’s second inauguration. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama wave to the crowd during the Inaugural Parade. (Photo: AP) Sasha and Malia Obama take photos […]

Rap fans, you can exhale. The female pit bull in a skirt, E-V-E is back with a new album and a partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters.  Philadelphia native Eve Jihan Jeffries, now 34, left a void in rap music when she put her rap career aside for a decade after 2002’s “Eve-olution.” By then, […]

Note: Thank you to Sheila Carter, a dedicated listener of the “Tom Joyner Morning Show” for this topic. — The 761st Battalion (also known as the Black Panther Tank Battalion) was an all-black Louisiana-based military unit. The group was activated in 1942 and trained at Camp Hood, Texas. The men of the 761st stood upright […]

For those few African Americans who claim they don’t feel the same sense of euphoria, think again: Monday’s inauguration of President Barack Obama was still all about making history. I’ve overheard some black residents of Washington, D.C. talking about how Obama’s inauguration was no longer important, or somehow insignificant, because we’ve been there, done that […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring “our journey is not complete,” President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term before a crowd of hundreds of thousands Monday, urging the nation to set an unwavering course toward prosperity and freedom for all its citizens and protect the social safety net that has sheltered the […]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — From bumper stickers to signs posted by a few businesses to the occasional T-shirt, reminders of Joe Paterno sprinkle Happy Valley. Most cues are subtle enough to make an outsider look twice. Like the decals with the outline of the bespectacled Paterno’s distinctive face, or the shirt with the image […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — They sat in wheelchairs as honored guests at President Barack Obama‘s second inaugural, attended to almost minute-by-minute by active duty members of the military. For these Tuskegee Airmen, members of the famed all-black unit of World War II and several years beyond, the tables surely turned. From the terrace of the Capitol, […]

Dr. Cornel West says that President Barack Obama doesn’t deserve to be sworn in for his second term as President of the United States with…

What do many Republicans, the spokesmen for NRA and Tavis Smiley have in common? Once they start down a road, no matter how dangerous or ridiculously wrong it is, they won’t turn back. Tavis’s commentary on CBS News Sunday Morning was both, a tribute to his hero Dr. King and a slam at his nemesis […]

Django Unchained star, Jamie Foxx, is the latest entertainer to sharply criticize legendary director Spike Lee over his blanket negative assessment of the film and…

First Atlanta rapper, Shawty Lo, real name Carlos Walker, was told that his controversial ‘Oxygen’ show, ‘All My Babies Mamas,’ was being cancelled; then he…

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