It is well known folly to raise politics, religion or race unless you are cruising for a fight. Yet, the president of the United States has managed to serve up a concoction of all three by virtue of his recent pronouncement that he believes gay couples have a right to marry. I’m not sure what […]
A prominent Baltimore-area pastor and Maryland legislator who denounced President Obama’s stance on same-sex marriage and told his congregation he would not vote in the November election, told BlackAmericaWeb.com on Monday that he has modified his position and would continue to support the president. On Sunday, the Rev. Emmett Burns, pastor and founder of Rising […]
The Obama campaign unleashed a three-pronged attack against Mitt Romney Monday with a biting television ad, a new video and a website that criticizes Romney’s business acumen while questioning whether Romney is capable of overseeing the nation’s economy. The campaign released a six-minute video featuring the story of GST Steel, which was purchased by Romney […]
DALLAS (AP) — For two decades, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for Democrats in her signature bright blazer and multicolored scarf. Now the first black woman to represent North Texas in Congress faces serious opposition in the May 29 primary election, and the effort to unseat her is just one of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — William Henderson Foote was a black federal law enforcement official in America’s Deep South at a time of heightened racial tensions, tasked with collecting liquor tax revenue from wholesalers and retailers in post-Reconstruction Mississippi. He joined the military at the start of the Civil War and later was politically active, championing civil […]
Black pastors took to their respective pulpits around the nation Sunday morning to blast President Obama over his personal support of gay marriage. But very few of them ventured into commentary suggesting that their congregations withdraw their political support from the President.
BERLIN (AP) — Will Smith says he supports U.S. President Barack Obama’s position on gay marriage. The Hollywood actor says the question of whether gay people should be allowed to legally marry is “about semantics.” He told reporters in Berlin on Monday that “if anybody can find someone to love them and to help them […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is now more like a political migraine less than four months before Democrats open the party’s national convention in Charlotte. The causes are plenty. Labor unions, a core Democratic constituency, are up in arms. Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue isn’t running for […]
TOM JOYNER: The First Lady is on the phone. Say good morning to Mrs. Michelle Obama. FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA: Good morning. SYBIL WILKES: All hail the First Lady! Good morning. How are you all doing? TOM JOYNER: We’re cold – in most of the country. I know. It’s so – it’s not good, the […]
TOM JOYNER: On the line right now is the president of the United States, Barack Obama. Good morning, Big Chief. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Tom Joyner, how are you, my friend? TOM JOYNER: I’m good. I’m good. I heard you’re busy. Well, obviously we spent the weekend dealing with this hurricane situation. And as I was […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday forcefully rejected Republican accusations that his foreign policy is timid and amounts to a policy of “appeasement.” “Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-Qaida leaders who have been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out […]
