(November 4, 2008) - After defeating John McCain in the key battleground states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida, Barack Obama was elected the nation’s 44th president Tuesday night, a first for an African American and the first time a sitting U.S. senator has won the White House since John F. Kennedy in 1960.
(November 3, 2008) - Madelyn Dunham, the grandmother who raised Barack Obama, died late Sunday evening in Hawaii after a long bout with cancer. She was 86 years old.
(November 2, 2008) - With only two days left before the country's most crucial and historic presidential race, African Americans everywhere are bracing for what their ancestors labored a lifetime to see: a Black man serving as president and commander-in-chief of the world's most powerful nation.
(November 1, 2008) -- Cong. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) on Saturday fired off a letter asking Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to investigate a leak to reporters regarding the immigration status of presidential candidate Barack Obama's aunt.
(October 30, 2008) - With the outcome of one of the most crucial elections of the past century hanging in the balance, the NAACP says it will do whatever it takes to ensure that each voter has a fair say.
(October 28, 2008) - Two neo-Nazi skinheads plotted a national killing spree that would have ended in the shooting deaths of 88 African Americans, decapitation of 14 more, and culminated in the assassination of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, federal authorities have announced.
(October 27, 2008) - After the body of an unidentified Black boy was found Monday in a sports-utility vehicle sought in connection with the murder of Jennifer Hudson’s mother and brother, the family has assumed the worst and began planning a church vigil in Chicago for the actress’ 7-year-old nephew.
(October 26, 2008) – In the battleground of all battlegrounds – the United Nations – Barack Obama has already emerged victorious. “It would be hard to find anybody, I think, at the U.N. who would not believe that Obama would be a considerable improvement over any other alternative,”...
(October 26, 2008) – While it’s no surprise that the Anchorage Daily News has endorsed the Democratic presidential ticket in the past, Alaska’s major newspaper doesn’t even see its governor and her running mate fit for the nation’s highest office.
(October 26, 2008) - Presidential candidate Barack Obama resumed campaigning Saturday after saying goodbye to his gravely ill grandmother in Hawaii. The Illinois senator was off the campaign trail for a day and half so he could spend time with 85-year-old Madelyn Dunham.
(October 24, 2008) - Presidential candidate John McCain’s attack on ACORN – Associated Community Organization for Reform Now – confirms the success of the organization, the head of the group says.
(October 24, 2008) - The decision by former Secretary of State Colin Powell to endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president instead of fellow Republican and long-time John McCain may cause more undecided voters to lean toward the Democratic front-runner, some political experts say.
(October 19, 2008) -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, one of America's most distinguished Republicans, has decided to support Sen. Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. Powell announced his decision on the Sunday edition of NBC's "Meet the Press." "He has both style and substance. I think he is a transformational figure," Powell said of Obama.
(October 17, 2008) -- One of the most powerful Democrats in Congress this week called his own political base “racist” and said Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama would have problems getting votes there. “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area,” Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
(October 16, 2008) -- While speaking to a particularly raucous gathering in Albuquerque, N.M., on Oct. 6, Sen. John McCain leaned forward at the podium and rhetorically asked the crowd, “Who is the real Barack Obama?” McCain’s words—delivered slowly and deliberately—carried an insidious undertone that seemed to fire up the crowd even more.
(October 15, 2008) -- Civil Rights legend Rep. John Lewis, (D-Ga.) pulled back some of his controversial comments linking the recent rhetoric of Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his running mate Gov. Sarah Palin to the late segregationist Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace.
( October 11, 2008) -- Civil Rights legend Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., said today that recent rowdy McCain-Palin rallies in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Minnesota spark ugly memories of an America that routinely advocated and practiced violence and murder against Black Americans.
(October 10, 2008) -- With more than 7 million African Americans currently uninsured, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama said yesterday he would “subsidize” Americans who cannot afford health insurance.
EVIAN, France – Jesse Jackson told an international gathering of world leaders this week that the turbulence on Wall Street is symptomatic of deeper financial problems that may threaten the United States’ ability to function as an effective world leader.
A former slave whose memoir is among the only one known to describe abduction from Africa is about to get a historical marker in the small Vermont town where he ended up settling.