Peter Baker, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — Sometime in the next few weeks, aides expect President Obama to issue orders freeing...
By Post Staff and news reports President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy Friday at Rev. Clementa Pinckney’s funeral in Charleston, South Carolina. Pastor...
Michael D. Shear and Christine Hauser, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — Just days after nine black parishioners were killed in a...
Michael D. Shear and Christine Hauser, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — Just days after nine black parishioners were killed in a...
By Post Staff and news reports President Barack Obama responded Thursday to killings at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina. ...
WASHINGTON (ESPN) — The avid sports fan who occupies the Oval Office is refusing to take sides as the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State...
Neil Irwin, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — You can be forgiven if you haven’t been particularly riveted by the series of...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The trade defeat in Congress was an ominous sign in a month of challenges that could help...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The trade defeat in Congress was an ominous sign in a month of challenges that could help...
SF State has been selected for the 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the...
Scott Shane, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — The families of an anti-Qaeda cleric and a police officer killed in an American...
Scott Shane, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — The families of an anti-Qaeda cleric and a police officer killed in an American...
Even before her rise to national fame began 11 years ago, Oakland soul singer Ledisi had formed a mutual admiration society of sorts with some of...
By Associated Press In a surprise announcement coming nine months after police in riot gear dispelled racially charged protests, President Barack Obama is banning the federal...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist President Obama recently participated in a long overdue panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University. As regular readers of...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama huffed that Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator and established liberal star, was a...
By Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root It’s been a busy few weeks for the legacy of Harriet Tubman. Earlier this month it was...
Family and friends joined together on Sunday, April 26 to celebrate the 95th birthday of Josie Dean, a longtime Oakland resident and former schoolteacher. During...
Greg Jaffe, THE WASHINGTON POST NEW YORK (The Washington Post) — He still has almost two years left in office, but the outlines of President...
Sophia Tareen, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — One of the remaining obstacles to building Barack Obama’s presidential library in his hometown of Chicago fell away when...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Since the moment that he announced his candidacy in 2007, through to this day, there have been two debates...
David Jackson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today) — President Obama hit all the right notes during his routine Saturday at the White House correspondents’ dinner, hitting...
Daniel Politi, SLATE WASHINGTON (Slate) — President Obama offered support for decriminalizing medical marijuana, as well as an overall change in the way the country...
Michael Eric Dyson, THE NEW REPUBLIC (The New Republic) — “Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned” is the best-known line from William Congreve’s The...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — With a tone of outrage and eye-rolling dismissiveness, President Barack Obama and his White House team are working...