AFRICANGLOBE – President Barrack Obama will visit Dakar next month,ording to reports in the Senegalese press. The newspaper L’As said today that the president will be in Dakar June 26 to 28 and will be accompanied by First Lady Michelle Robinson Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha.
AFRICANGLOBE – President Obama on Sunday told the graduating class at Morehouse College, the country’s pre-eminent historically Black college, there is “no time for excuses” for this generation of African-American men and that it was time for their generation to step up professionally and in their personal lives.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – The persistence of disproportionate African-American unemployment is a capstone of the “heads-they-win-tails-we-lose” persistence of African Americans getting the worst when the economy declines and the least when the economy grows.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – So much for the Executive Branch being able to get anything done: To hear some people say it, President Obama has no power whatsoever to enact policies that help the African American community.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – Hate groups in America are on the rise, fueled by the election of President Obama, the poor economy and more recently, the gun control debate in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre, according to the annual report of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks American hate.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – Now that Washington lawmakers have finally proven just how dysfunctional they are by allowing the brutal sequester cuts to be enacted at midnight, they will now sit back and wait to see how federal agencies will slash $85 billion from their budgets.
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