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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) lived up to her reputation as one of the fiercest critics of the Obama administration over the weekend, refusing to back down from two controversial claims.

World – President Obama came back from Portugal talking up his wins at the NATO summit. The president got Russian buy-in on efforts to build a missile-defense system for Europe, and persuaded NATO leaders and Afghanistan’s president to agree to his plan to gradually reduce allied forces there over the next four years and put […]

Washington– More than a decade ago, a federal judge ordered the government to compensate farmers for discrimination and thousands were. But it wasn’t until February that the Obama administration announced a settlement with seventy thousand more farmers. It was up to Congress to dole out more than a billion dollars in damages. After missing multiple […]

Washington- Just be patient, Joe Biden says. America’s longest war will totally be over … in four years. The vice president declared 2014 as the “drop-dead date” for the Afghanistan pullout on Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” echoing similar sentiments from the night before on CNN. While it was never clear exactly when the U.S. […]

In his farewell speech, Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.), the only African American in the Senate, said it was “troubling” that when he leaves at the end of the month, there will be no blacks when the new Senators are sworn in next January.

WASHINGTON (HuffPo) — Two of the top consultants in the Democratic Party leveled unusually blunt criticisms on Thursday over what they deemed a “total mis-framing” of an economic message by the Obama White House.

Roland Martin appears in The Situation Room with Leslie Sanchez and host Wolf Blitzer.

Below is a video shot by the Huffington Post in Rep. Charles Rangel’s Harlem District. Many of the Harlem residents in this video believe that Rangel should be let off the hook for his ethics violations. Do you agree with Rangel’s constituents or do you think he deserves everything that is coming his way? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/video/video_3543.html?1290055633 […]

99 years ago, the Fraternity Omega Psi Phi was founded by Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper and Frank Coleman, students at Howard University on November, 17th 1911. Several prominent African Americans have joined the ranks of Omega Psi Phi, including adviser to Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan, political activist, Jesse Jackson, basketball players Shaquille O’Neal […]

(Atlanta-Atlanta Journal-Constitution) When Walter Broadnax took the helm of one of Atlanta’s historically black colleges — Clark Atlanta University — in 2002, the school, he said, was in financial trouble. So he set about laying off professors, shutting down some programs and increasing the tuition. At the time, those moves provoked widespread controversy on campus […]