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*President Obama turned to Hollywood for help in raising awareness of mental illness, beginning with a White House summit on Monday with Vice President Joe Biden, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Education Secretary Arne Duncan. They were joined by two entertainment industry stalwarts with personal connections to mental health issues: actress Glenn [...]
*Since former president Clinton’s indiscretions with Monica Lewinsky in the White House, no president wants to be the center of that type of controversy. Our president is no different. He’s crossing his t’s and dotting his i’s and pointing folks out! President Obama was at a White House event Tuesday evening for Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage [...]
*President Obama offered prayers Tuesday for the people of Oklahoma, and said the nation will stand with them as they recover from a devastating tornado that claimed at least 24 lives. “In an instant, neighborhoods were destroyed, dozens of people lost their live,” Obama said this morning from the White House. “In some cases there [...]
*A White House advisory council of religious leaders called for a global fund to address human trafficking and urged a new labeling system to help identify consumer goods that were not created with slave labor, says BCNN1.com. With a 36-page report released Wednesday (April 10), the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships hopes [...]
*News organizations are beginning to reveal their guest lists for the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, to be held on April 27th. Hollywood is again well-represented, with returning headliner Conan O’Brien set for the headliner role that Jimmy Kimmel played last year. Among the other Tinseltown residents to sit alongside generals and top-tier cabinet secretaries [...]
*First lady Michelle Obama gave her word about “42,” a film based on Jackie Robinson’s life and career, highlighting the racial barriers the athlete and role model took on boldly. She said to the Associated Press, “How on Earth did (the Robinsons) live through that? How did they do it? How did they endure the [...]
*This year’s Easter Egg Hunt at the White House started out a little “shaky,”, but shaped up in time for the kids and the first family to have a great time…even though one little guy was a little sad. After President Obama acknowledged the presence of the Easter Bunny and Kid President with a round [...]
*Dr. Ben Carson — who during his speech at February’s National Prayer Breakfast criticized some of President Obama’s economic policies — hinted Saturday that he might be interested in a 2016 presidential run. Speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference, Carson continued his attack on Washington and the rest of the United States, and [...]
*Michelle Obama won’t turn the big 5-0 until January, but plans for her birthday party are already underway, with Beyonce and Adele reportedly booked for the milestone celebration. That’s if an unnamed source for the UK’s Daily Mail is telling the truth. “America’s first lady will be holding a huge celebrity-packed party for her birthday [...]
*Exactly 30 years ago, Marvin Gaye sang the National Anthem at the NBA All-Star game at Los Angeles’ famous Forum and it was forever changed. He received his heavy share of backlash over his sultry rendition of the song because the usual suspects thought that it was disrespectful among other things. Fast forward to today [...]
*In October, Oprah Winfrey tweeted the above photo of herself and Terrence Howard from the set of their upcoming film “The Butler.” “And THAT’s a Wrap! Terrence Howard and me in our goodbye ‘love scene’,” Winfrey wrote as a caption, providing no further details. Howard, however, is now spilling the beans on how he ended [...]
*President Barack Obama has a great wife. Mrs. Michelle Obama is truly his ride-or-die chick because she will not ever say anything bad about the man in public. During an interview with Robin Roberts on “Good Morning America,” the first lady revealed that her husband’s gray hair isn’t from his seemingly stressful job. It’s from [...]
*During her Friday appearance on “Jimmy Fallon,” Michelle Obama said she would be attending the Governor’s Ball at the White House on Sunday night and would likely only catch the tail end of ABC’s live telecast. What she coyly left out was that she’d actually be ON the tail end of the telecast. This morning, [...]
*President Obama played golf Sunday with Tiger Woods during the president’s long holiday weekend in Florida, amid concerns from the media about a lack of access before, during and after the outing. The foursome at the Floridian National Golf Club, in Palm City, Fla., included U.S. trade representative Ron Kirk and Jim Crane, a Democratic [...]
*A White House official says President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address at all-male Morehouse College in Atlanta this spring, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The White House official declined to speak on the record because the schedule of Obama’s commencement speeches has not been released. Obama typically speaks each spring at a handful of [...]
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