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Analyst Sees Flaws in Gingrich Claims on “Food Stamp President” Newt Gingrich's charge that President Barack Obama is the “Food Stamp President” because many Americans have had to go on food stamps during his first term in office ignores a key fact, like the Great Recession, says Algernon Austin, director of the Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy Program at the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.–based think tank.
by Frederick H. Lowe Pepsi Beverages has agreed to pay $3.
Joblessness dropped for black men, but it climbed for black women By Frederick H.
Red Tails, a movie about the Tuskegee Airmen, beat expectations for weekend box office receipts, although inclement weather in some parts of the country may have kept moviegoers at home.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, January 28, in Gardena, Calif., for singer Etta James, who died Jan. 20. Ms. James had been suffering from terminal leukemia, kidney disease, hepatitis C and dementia. She was 73.
by Frederick H. Lowe President Barak Obama said during the State of the Union address on Tuesday that the U.S. tax code must be changed so it does not reward companies that outsource U.S.
by Frederick H. Lowe A short documentary about an 85-year-old African-American barber, who was a soldier in the civil-rights movement, and the feature film The Help, about black domestic workers, received Oscar nominations, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Tuesday.
January 26 through February 2 January 26 1863 ----- The United States War Department authorized on this date the Governor of Massachusetts, John A. Andrew, to recruit black troops to serve in the Union Army in the American Civil War.