Check out our photos from Donovan McNabb’s press conference with the Washington Redskins. Let’s welcome the newest Redskin to the team.

Kirk Whalum stopped through the WOL 1480 AM studios to talk with Bernie McCain about this new project, “The Gospel According to Jazz Chapter III.” See photos of his visit here.

First Lady Michelle Obama was the picture of physical fitness when she hosted the Healthy Kids Fair on the South Lawn of the White House this week. See photos of her playing double dutch, hula hooping and more right here.

VIA NEWSONE.COM:

When the Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) disrupted the President’s healthcare address before a joint session of Congress, it was not the first time that a president from Illinois had trouble from a South Carolina lawmaker.

The first time, of course, was when the Palmetto State became the first to secede from the Union. South Carolina politicians such as John C. Calhoun and Preston Brooks stirred the pot and inflamed passions with talk of states’ rights, limited government, nullification, and slavery. The other Southern states followed suit, forming the Confederate States of America and resulting in a Civil War that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

During the Civil War, which I will call Secesh 1.0, the issue was whether White Southerners had a right to kidnap Black people and keep them chained in their backyard. (Secesh means Secessionists, as in, “Colonel, we’re gonna whup the Secesh!”) The South lost, but was a sore loser. And President Lincoln was assassinated by a disgruntled fan of the losing team. Since that time, the losing side has continued its quest to shape the nation in its ignorant, regressive and repressively racist image.

Secesh 2.0 was Jim Crow segregation and the days of the civil rights movement. That was the era of conservative White resistance to equality and Black aspirations, under threat of violence and death. At issue was whether states had a right to treat “their” Black folk as they pleased. The federal government was the enemy, as were outside agitators and carpetbaggers, civil rights workers, sympathetic Whites and uppity Blacks, Jews from up North, anyone from up North, Communists and other troublemakers.

Get more at NewsOne.com.

VIA USA TODAY:

President Obama will appear on a record five TV networks on Sunday plus sit down with late-night host David Letterman on Monday. It’s the latest broadcast blitz for Obama, who has made himself accessible to news and entertainment outlets. USA TODAY’s Catalina Camia and David Jackson take a look at Obama on television.

The Sunday Shows

Obama plans to appear on the Sunday morning talk shows of ABC, NBC, CBS and sit for interviews with CNN and Spanish-language network Univision. He’s skipping Fox, whose news channel he has said is “entirely devoted to attacking my administration.” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says the interviews are “an attempt by the president to speak to as many different people as he can on an issue that’s as important as something like health care reform or on Afghanistan.” Previous presidents have been grilled on the Sunday shows, but not all in one day. Obama drew 3.7 million viewers to CBS’ Face the Nation in March, according to the Nielsen ratings company.

Busy Week

The Late Show with David Letterman stint will be the first by a sitting president on that CBS show, the network says. Obama last chatted with Letterman during the campaign. He’ll tape the show in New York City on Monday afternoon, at the start of a busy week of diplomacy. He also addresses the United Nations and the global foundation run by Bill Clinton and hosts world leaders in Pittsburgh for the Group of 20 economic summit.

Real the full story at USAToday.com.

VIA WASINGTONPOST.COM:

By David Cho, Steven Mufson and Tomoeh Murakami Tse

J.P. Morgan Chase for the first time convened its board in Washington this summer, calling the directors to a meeting at the downtown Hay-Adams hotel, then dispatching them to Capitol Hill for meet-and-greets.

Last month, a firm run by the billionaire investor Wilbur Ross hired the head of Washington’s top mortgage regulator to pick through the wreckage of the housing bust looking for bargains.

And the world’s largest bond fund, Pimco, which has traditionally assessed the risk of any new investment according to five financial criteria, recently added one more: the impact of any change in federal policy.

Get the full story at WashingtonPost.com.

Chuck Brown was joined on stage at the 19th Annual Stone Soul Picnic by none other than DC Council member and former DC Mayor Marion Barry. See photos of these two Washington, DC icons below.

VIA CNN:

The Philadelphia Eagles welcomed Michael Vick back into the National Football League on Friday after the quarterback spent almost two years in federal prison on a felony dogfighting conviction.

Vick, formerly with the Atlanta Falcons, has signed a two-year deal with the Eagles.

“I think everybody deserves a second chance,” Vick said at a news conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Friday. “Now I want to be part of the solution and not the problem.”

The league suspended Vick indefinitely in August 2007 after he pleaded guilty to a federal charge of bankrolling a dogfighting operation at a home he owned in Virginia.

Vick, 29, was freed from federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, on May 20 and returned to his Virginia home to serve the last two months of his 23-month sentence in home confinement.

“Everything that happened at that point in my life was wrong,” Vick said of his involvement with the dogfighting ring.

“I had to reach a turning point. Prison definitely did it for me,” he said.

Flanked by Eagles coach Andy Reid and former NFL coach Tony Dungy, who acted as a mentor to Vick after he was imprisoned, the newest Eagle vowed “to do all the right things.”

“I want to be an ambassador to the NFL and the community,” he said. “I’m glad I got … a second chance. I won’t disappoint.”

Dungy said that he thinks Vick can revive his career and turn his life around in Philadelphia but that the quarterback will be tested by fickle Eagles fans.

Read more here.

VIA ADVOCATE.COM:

Gay African-American author E. Lynn Harris died Friday morning in Arkansas of a heart attack. He was 54.

According to the Black Voices, Harris was on a book tour promoting his 11th novel, “Basketball Jones,” about a pro basketball player and his gay lover.

Some of Harris’s books include his debut “Invisible Live,” followed by others like “Any Way the Wind Blows,” “Abide with Me,” “Not a Day Goes By” and “I Say a Little Prayer.” Harris also wrote a memoir, “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted,” a New York Times best seller in 2003.

Read more here.