Angela McGlowan has been drawn to conservative side of politics for some time--as a commentator for FOX News and BET, and author of BAMBOOZLED: How Americans Are Being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda--but this year she's taking her passion a step further by jumping into the arena...

Dr. Charles Ogletree clearly knew, after I left a general message at his Harvard Law School office, that I wanted to talk about the criticism gaining traction against President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Solicitor General Elena Kagan. In Kagan's six years as dean at Harvard Law School, for example,...

On April 11, a man named John M. Bonner, of the small town Dinwiddie, Virginia, passed away. He was 87 years old. A pioneer of the Black Farmers' Movement, which fought for equal treatment in rural county agriculture offices, farming was Bonner's lifelong passion. He was also one of thousands...

Since signing the Recovery Act last year, President Barack Obama has touted the law's funding for transportation and infrastructure as an efficient way to create jobs. And the jobs bill he signed just last week extends these transportation projects through December, which he maintains will put even more Americans back...

Throughout his political career, President Barack Obama has frequently referred to his years as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago. During this time, as a means of achieving social justice, he learned how to develop leadership potential and respond to the needs of the people. The organization...

When I interviewed Congresswoman Barbara Lee about health care last week, we also talked about the jobs bill the House voted on that same day. The bill gives a tax break to companies that hire the jobless, and extends highway and mass transit construction programs through the end...

I chatted with Congressional Black Caucus President Barbara Lee yesterday, just after she met with President Obama at the White House. The President called two back-to-back meetings with Congressional Democrats, urging them to put aside their disagreements on health care reform in order to pass the bill. His first meeting...

While health care may be the current hot button topic, President Obama has made it a point to also prop up another issue. "Week after week, month after month, he keeps coming back to education," said Education Secretary Arne Duncan at a reporter's roundtable last week. "He has flatlined all...

All eyes will be on Capitol Hill tonight at 9 p.m., as President Obama delivers his first State of the Union address. Just eight days after the setback of Democrats losing a seat in the Massachusetts Senate race, he'll try to draw public support by focusing on the...

I met with First Lady Michelle Obama this week, at a small roundtable with six other reporters. We gathered in the White House's Old Family Dining Room--a golden-hued space decorated with oil paintings of former First Ladies, where she and the President have hosted small dinners including last spring's Passover...

President Obama has been on a pre-holiday media blitz, with radio and TV interviews. This week he spoke to radio personalities Tom Joyner and April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks. During her interview, Ryan asked the President about the Congressional Black Caucus campaign for the White House...

President Obama has given his stamp of approval on the new healthcare plan agreed upon by Democratic Senators. The support signals that it's a wrap on the idea of creating a government-run public insurance option--but the deal that the senators reached, which the President called "a creative new framework," is...

The White House is kicking off its Jobs Summit today, bringing together business executives, finance experts, economists, small business owners and labor leaders to discuss ways to spark job creation. President Obama announced the summit last month, after the latest jobs report showed that unemployment shot up to 10.2 percent...

As the Senate gears up for floor debate on its health care reform bill, Illinois Senator Roland Burris says he's through making concessions. "I've already compromised because, you see, I was for a single payer system," he says plainly from his Capitol Hill office. Now he insists that he will...

When Air Force One touches down in Ghana on Friday evening, it's sure to be another goosebump moment of the Obama presidency. The rich symbolism in Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan immigrant, visiting Africa as the President of the United States, and Michelle Obama, the descendent of enslaved...

In the opening remarks of his news conference on Tuesday, President Obama mentioned a climate change bill working its way through the House of Representatives, hailing it as "legislation that will finally spark a clean energy transformation that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and confront the carbon pollution...

Vice President Joe Biden has been hustling to plug the Recovery Act. On Thursday he went to Pennsylvania and Kansas, for the groundbreakings of bridge and highway projects funded by federal stimulus money, and Friday it was Kalamazoo, Michigan, for a ceremony marking interchange reconstruction.

The trips are the...