Politics

UPDATED Friday, November 7, 2014, 6:43 p.m., ET – On Saturday President Barack Obama will announce his intention to nominate Loretta Lynch as U.S. attorney general, Associated Press is reporting. Earlier: With the recent announcement that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will be stepping down, there has been rumblings in Washington about who his replacement would be. […]

Former president Jimmy Carter‘s grandson, Georgia state senator Jason Carter, is running for governor of the state, and he says we shouldn’t sleep on Nov. 4 just because no one is running for president. The types of races you find during mid-term elections, like governors’ races, are “where stuff gets done,” he told radio show […]

Dominic Adesanya (pictured), allegedly managed to jump over the “secured” White House fence on Wednesday and make it all the way to the North Lawn before he was nabbed by Secret Service agents, cuffed, and charged with four counts of resisting and unlawful entry and one count of making threats, according to CNN. SEE ALSO: Woman Fakes […]

President Barack Obama joined Rev. Al Sharpton on the “Keepin’ It Real With Rev. Al Sharpton” radio show to discuss why African Americans, who skew heavily Democrat, cannot afford to sit out this year’s election. He also addressed how he feels about Democrat politicians who don’t want to be seen with him on the campaign […]

When President Barack Obama (pictured) cast his ballot on the first day of early voting in his home state of Illinois, little did he know he would be accused of stealing someone’s girlfriend! As the press snapped away, voter Mike Jones, seized the opportunity to joke with Obama about touching his girlfriend fellow voter Aia […]

The United States Supreme Court upheld Texas’ voter ID law. As a result of the ruling, 600,000 registered voters, mostly Black and Hispanic, may be disenfranchised because they lack the proper form(s) of identification. “NewsOne Now” guest host Jeff Johnson and the Straight Talk panel (George Curry, Francesca Chambers and  Joseph Williams) take a look at […]

While signing an executive order to increase security protection for government credit cards, President Barack Obama made workers from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau laugh out loud when he admitted that his credit card had been rejected last month at a restaurant in New York City while he was there for the United Nations General Assembly, reports […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The former mayor of North Carolina’s largest city was sentenced Tuesday to nearly four years in prison in a federal corruption case that spanned the time he was a councilman to when he took over in the executive office. SEE ALSO: GA Secretary Of State Blocks 40,000 From Voting For No Apparent Reason […]

In an exclusive interview with Salon.com, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), slammed the Obama Administration for catering to Wall Street instead of the families and young people who stand at the heart of the Democratic Party. Warren, who even without announcing a 2016 presidential run is a favored underdog contender, said that President Barack Obama has faced […]

According to a new study, laws requiring voters to show identification when they cast a ballot have a greater impact on African Americans and younger voters than on other racial and age groups. For a compete explanation of the General Accounting Office report visit The Washington Post.

During an interview on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Dr. Cornel West made it plain that President Barack Obama does not belong on a t-shirt with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. RELATED:  Cornel West: President Obama Doesn’t Deserve To Be Sworn In With MLK’s Bible [VIDEO] Dr. Cornel West: Politicians […]

Breaking from widely-held opinion among Black Americans, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said that he does not believe that race plays a role in the Secret Service’s negligence when it comes to protecting President Barack Obama and the First Family, reports the Huffington Post. “We have information that this goes all the way back to the […]