ORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama urged Colorado Democrats Thursday to recapture the energy of six years ago, choking up in a college town and reminiscing on her husband’s first nomination in Denver. Obama was in Colorado to rally Democrats for Sen. Mark Udall, who faces a tight contest against Republican Rep. […]
President Barack Obama needs your help. This year’s midterm elections, taking place nationwide on November 4, are crucial to the President’s legislative agenda in his last two years in office. “We know what we’ve got to do,” he says. “We’ve got to increase the minimum wage. We’ve got to make sure that women are getting paid […]
Ken Smukler, the President of Infovoter is back on the Tom Joyner Morning Show with his ‘Trickery Report’. He touches on what to expect at the polls and gives exclusive details on how to fight back against fraud voter registration laws. Click the link above to hear the details! Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
The sense of urgency over the Black vote in the upcoming mid-term elections is mounting. Black congressional leaders are feverishly urging black voters to turn out strong on November 4th, saying that Democrats could lose multiple elections across the country and Republicans could take control of the U.S. Senate, if African Americans don’t pack the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Six-term Sen. Thad Cochran’s Republican runoff against Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel stands as a test of whether decades of delivering federal largesse trumps conservative demands to slash government spending. The 76-year-old Cochran, the former Senate Appropriations Committee chairman who has steered billions of dollars back home, is locked in a tight […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — There may be some good news from Congress for the long-term unemployed, but there’s nothing signed off on yet. Bipartisan Senate bargainers ended a long-running election-season standoff and struck a compromise renewing expired jobless benefits for five months for more than 2 million Americans who have been out of work the longest, […]
You may not know Chaka Fattah but you should. Fattah has helped more than 25 million individuals through programs and initiatives he has created since…
The Senate has easily approved Janet Yellen’s nomination to head the Federal Reserve. Yellen is the first woman to lead the central bank in its 100yr history. It puts an economist in the post who has long focused on fighting unemployment and who backed the Fed’s recent efforts to spur the economy with low interest […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats quickly enjoyed the first fruits of a milestone Senate vote making it harder for the Republican minority to block President Barack Obama‘s nominations: They swiftly ended a GOP filibuster against one of his top judicial selections and prepared to do the same for two others. Over the longer term, they might […]
Senior advisor to President Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, talks with the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the inception of the Affordable Care Act. — TOM JOYNER: Senior advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett is on the phone. All right, Valerie Jarrett, let’s get this party started. Let’s get people registered for the Affordable Act. Break […]
Newark mayor and potential New Jersey senator Cory Booker has some people wondering if the reason he hasn’t settled down is because he’s gay. Booker took time to address the rumors in a Washington Post profile. His question to those who think he may be in the closet is, “so what?” He addresses his social […]
Newark Mayor Cory Booker wanted to get an understanding of life for those people living on public assistance, so he lived on $4 a day for…
