Obama's Chicago Soul: President's Ideals Tie Him To City's Music Legends
President-elect Barack Obama paid homage to Chicago soul in his Grant Park acceptance speech. He riffed on Wendell Phillips High graduate Sam Cooke by...
President-elect Barack Obama paid homage to Chicago soul in his Grant Park acceptance speech. He riffed on Wendell Phillips High graduate Sam Cooke by...
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics
Blender gets both presidential candidates to name their top ten songs -- and has singer Randy Newman and DJ Girl Talk rate the choices. Barack Obama w...
Time | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
As Karen notes below, Barack Obama crossed the pop culture/politics divide today by praising Lil' Wayne's rhyming ability at a campaign event in Powde...
NY Post | richard johnson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama claims to run a clean campaign, but someone in his camp took a swipe at Hillary Clinton through the candidate's them...
Chicago Sun-Times | Dave Hoekstra | Posted 02.11.2009 | Chicago