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The President Didn’t Visit HBCU’S … SO?!

Seasoned journalist DeWayne Wickham posed the question to the White House, “Did the President get any invitations to speak at any HBCU’s?”  and the White House acted as though that information was on some sort of gag order.  The President spoke at the Naval Academy, Notre Dame and Arizona State University. April Ryan a white house correspondent for American Urban [...]

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President Obama Respects Confederate Soldiers In Face of Petition

President Obama holds one of the most important positions in memorializing the dead soldiers during his first stint as President during the Memorial day holiday yesterday.  Since he did not serve in the armed forces himself, he has made extreme efforts to show his support of those who have.  But, he was interrupted with a petition [...]

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President Obama Is In Charge But Not at the White House

Let us introduce to you Rear Admiral Stephen Rochon.  He is the White House Chief Usher and he is in charge of the domestic staff. He is the eighth person and the first black person to hold this position. He was appointed the position in 2007 under President George W. Bush after the previous usher retired after [...]

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Grumbling Starts Over Obama’s Cuts In HBCU Funding

On RushmoreDrive.com, blogger Nsenga Burton is pointing out that President Barack Obama is under fire for cutting 85 million dollars in “extra” funding from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). It seems Obama’s education budget included major spending increases, but didn’t include an extra $85 million that black institutions have received annually for the past two [...]

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World Renowned Professor William R. Rice Passes On at 79

  Because headlines can only be so long, we used “Professor” for the interest of keeping  it under 50 words.  We’re going to attempt to keep it short, but, Professor Rice lived the life of five people. He spoke five different languages:  french, Spanish, Portuguese, german and English.  He taught  in Albany State University’s English department in Mass Communication and Modern Languages [...]

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Is Obama Hypnotizing Us?

This should be one of our “Jokey Jokes,” but it appears that this is a very real and serious slice of documentary that is trying to make the case that President Obama has learned hypnosis techniques to captivate the world. 

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