As the present becomes a relic, the Obamas and the Carters will be history’s odd couple. Before Barack Obama was the eye candy of the media and political magnet for black moms and grandmas everywhere, he wasn’t as easily received among black folks. It was due to a common ignorance shared in the black community…
Fatherhood in black culture is laced with explosives. President Barack Obama seems to have a taste for pyrotechnics. On Friday, he hit his old Chicago stomping grounds to speak at Hyde Park Academy. The hot button issue in the Chi these days continue to be guns and violence, but Obama didn’t spend much time on…
President Obama recently took to the media to condemn some of its practitioners. Particularly the conservative media, which has been a thorn in Obama’s torso for a while now. It won’t stop. Rush Limbaugh is going to find a shadow to cast to the current administration. And the president will continuously brand the conservative media…
On Monday, January 21 President Barack Hussein Obama II will take his second oath of office for President of the Untied States. It’s hard to believe it’s been four years since he first took office, but he’s managed to do it with high approval ratings and without any scandals. In honor of President Obama’s second…
Sacha Dratwa, the lieutenant behind Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) social media campaign, is under fire for a Facebook photo of his face covered in mud posted with the caption ‘Obama style.’ The photo was discovered by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, a Lebanese blogger, on Friday. By Sunday, Lieutenant Dratwa restricted access to his Facebook account and defended…
Donald Trump embarrassed himself on Election Night with a now infamous rant following President Barack Obama’s win. He blamed the Republican party, Mitt Romney and even our democracy for the outcome of the election, and suggested that a revolution was imminent. His antics that night were the latest in a long line of actions that…
Like most of America, I was glued to the TV watching election results last Tuesday. I hooted, hollered and even wobbled through the celebration of Barack Obama being elected for a second term. I wasn’t alone in feeling elated or at least inspired by Tuesday’s events. Karl Lagerfeld was so moved by the election he…
Cornel West has never been one to mince his words. The professor’s latest verbal attack focuses on President Obama’s policies. During an appearance on “Democracy Now with Amy Goodman,” West criticized Obama’s election campaign, specifically the billions spent to put him back in office. Cornel also claimed Obama avoided discussing key issues like poverty and…
It seems ridiculous, but that’s the question Oxonian Globalist writer Alice Robb recently posed. In the President’s victory speech Tuesday night, Mr. Obama praised his family and told his daughters, “Sasha and Malia, before our very eyes, you’re growing up to become two strong, smart, beautiful young women, just like your mom, and I’m so…
Though most people wouldn’t peg Stacey Dash as a political expert, she has been vocal throughout the Presidential race. The “Clueless” star first announced her support for Mitt Romney on Twitter to the chagrin of several fans who felt she was misinformed and selling out. She followed up with a series of photo opps, posing…
