Barack Obama

Invoking Martin Luther King Jr., the president said the country needs to possess a "fierce urgency of now" to combat gun violence and not only discuss the latest mass shooting, but prevent it.

During the program, President Obama is slated to talk about the negative impact that gun violence has had on our country and will take questions from attendees.

President Obama is set to announce an executive action on gun sales at the top of the new year.

This week’s airing of the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors showed President Obama in a whole new light after a show-stopping performance from the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. The legendary singer brought the house down during her tribute to singer/songwriter Carole King in Washington D.C. The December 6th show aired Tuesday evening and honored King, Star Wars creator George Lucas, […]

From Sandra Bland to the shootings in Charleston, South Carolina, African Americans were sadly reminded that being Black in America is much harder than it ought to be. And yet in the same breath, 2015 was a year of Black joy during which our culture dominated not only in our lives, but in the mainstream consciousness. […]

From Sandra Bland to the shootings in Charleston, South Carolina, African Americans were sadly reminded that being Black in America is much harder than it ought to be. And yet in the same breath, 2015 was a year of Black joy during which our culture dominated not only in our lives, but in the mainstream consciousness. […]

The PSA, titled "End Gun Violence," aired between games on Christmas Day and was released online Wednesday.

The Obamas grant a Christmas wish for a burn victim.

Loretta Lynch's confirmation as attorney general was a pivotal moment in American history.

Barack Obama names the best things that happened this year.

During a campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Monday, Donald Trump made "astonishingly sexist attacks against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton."

Stories about gun violence within our country are becoming all too common. President Obama is utilizing the incidents as an avenue to open up the conversation about the need for stricter gun control laws. He recently released a statement about the killing of Zaevion Dobson, a high school football star from Knoxville, Tennessee who was […]