ALBANY, GA (WALB) –Albany Police Chief John Proctor urged senior citizens to use their life experience to teach young people about civil rights and better race relations. Proctor told seniors at the SOWEGA Council on Aging Downtown Center that ...
TORONTO - Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels will be in Toronto on Tuesday to take part in a panel discussion celebrating Black History Month. The American filmmaker will be joined by Canadian directors Norman Jewison and Clement Virgo ("Poor Boy's ...
As part of events for Black History Month, comedians Corwin “C Dawg” Oglesby and Mr. Lav Luv performed in the new conference center. Both of the comedians, who are from Atlanta, have been featured on BET's “Comic View.” “They were great ...
(CBS) In just over a year in office, President Obama has given more than 160 interviews and taken questions at 26 town meetings. In Katie Couric's interview with him yesterday, she asked him about the criticism he gets from some political analysts ...
Barack Obama ’s recently unveiled fiscal 2011 budget represents a mixed bag for businesses, with good news coming from proposed wage and job creation tax credits, but successful entrepreneurs may be pinched by tax changes aimed at limiting ...
WASHINGTON - President Obama's call for a televised meeting with Republicans to discuss his stalled healthcare legislation comes as his party unfolds a strategy aimed at forcing the GOP to put policy ideas on the table that Democrats believe they can ...
J.T. Templeton moved out of what was then the Austin State School in 1986, after a landmark federal lawsuit filed in 1974 against what was then the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. In the 1990s, he was part of a group that ...
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will ask Congress to improve childhood nutrition by ridding school vending machines of sugary snacks and drinks and giving school lunch and breakfast to more kids. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the ...
In the Feb. 4 article "Poll: Jerseyans still pro-Obama," I would like to know what President Barack Obama has done to warrant a 55 percent approval rating. So far, he hasn't created any jobs, hasn't passed health care reform and hasn't made us more ...
Congressional Republican's clearly don't want this health care reform bill to pass. They made the political calculation that allowing Obama to achieve victory on this bill will only help Democrats in 2010. So, with this televised, bipartisan meeting ...
