With open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act set to begin Oct. 1, officials at the new health insurance Marketplaces are gearing up to help…
Rickey Smiley had the chance to meet President Obama over the weekend along with others like Rev. Al Sharpton, Tom Joyner, and Russ Parr. Listen…
White House correspondent April Ryan talks with Admiral Rochon, the first black head usher for the White House, about Lee Daniels‘ “The Butler” and its depiction of the butlers in the White House.
Former White House adviser, Van Jones, tweeted the picture of MLK in a hoodie similar to Trayvon Martin’s after the “not guilty” verdict for George Zimmerman. The George Zimmerman case ended with a “not guilty” verdict that those in favor of justice are not happy with, but the reaction from the civil rights organizations and […]
Jamie Foxx snd Channing Tatum seem like a comic match and in “White House Down” that potential is on display. Although it’s an action movie, the two actors manage to include a lot of laughs, mostly at Republicans expense. In “White House Down”, Jamie Foxx plays President Sawyer by way of President Obama and Channing […]
First Lady Michelle Obama keeps a pretty busy schedule as First Lady, probably doing more before sunrise than most of us do in a whole day. But she’s managed to write a #1 New York Times bestseller, “American Grown: The Story of The White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America,” a gorgeously photographed coffee table book […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A career criminal who stole a truck containing President Obama‘s audio equipment was sentenced Thursday to seven years in federal prison. Sentencing guidelines called for a term of about three years, but Eric Brown of Richmond agreed to the longer sentence to avoid prosecution for 14 similar truck thefts in three […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says 480 workers on the president’s budget staff have been notified they may have to take days off without pay because of a partisan budget stalemate. Press secretary Jay Carney wouldn’t say whether notices have gone out to other aides to President Barack Obama outside the Office of Management […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House, busy with its annual Easter Egg Roll, also managed to pull off an April Fools’ prank. The White House Twitter account announced earlier Monday to be on the lookout for a “special video message from the president.” Instead, viewers got a surprise visitor to the press briefing room. The […]
Fans of ABC’s hit TV show “Scandal” have been in withdrawal as the last two weeks have been repeats. But their patience will be rewarded tonight when an all-new episode, “Top of the Hour,” will hit the airwaves. When we left off, President Grant and his lover Washington fixer Olivia Pope were trying to work […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — No more chance sightings of first dog Bo? Citing the impact of new spending cuts on staffing, the U.S. Secret Service and the National Park Service announced that public tours of the White House will be canceled beginning Saturday. The cancellations come at the start of the spring tourist season, a popular […]
Michelle Obama has been the focus of a media blitz lately celebrating the first anniversary of her “Let’s Move,” campaign geared to encourage fitness and healthy eating among young people. Though the right-wing has sniped at Mrs. Obama in the past, touting her as some kind of radical pushing vegetables on the nation’s children (how […]
