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Historically black colleges and universities are not ruling out a lawsuit against the Obama administration over new federal financial aid policies that disproportionately affect their students, the Washington Times reports. New underwriting standards enacted in October 2011 to PLUS loans made it tougher for parents with lackluster credit to borrow money from the federal government for their child’s college expenses. Families of students [...]

The Huffington Post reported that President Barrack Obama will give the commencement speech at Morehouse College May 19, 2013. It will be the POTUS’s second commencement speech at a HBCU [he visited Hampton University in 2010]. President of Morehouse John S Wilson Jr. made an announcement this weekend stating he did not ask the president to come, but was notified by [...]

Four years ago, Jakarah Porter was so excited she could hardly stand it. She was a high-school senior in Mobile, Ala., who was about to cast her first vote in a presidential election, and it was going to be for Barack Obama, who would become the first African-American president. “I was part of history,” said Porter, the president of Dillard [...]

First lady Michelle Obama asked Hampton University students Friday to change their plans for the weekend and volunteer for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign’s effort to get voters to the polls Tuesday. “Hampton students, whatever you are planning to do for the weekend that doesn’t involve getting the vote out – postpone that,” the first lady told a raucous crowd [...]

Delawareans got their chance to listen to President Barak Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney argue their platforms directly to each other in the first of three televised presidential debates Wednesday. The debate, which focused on the economy, health care and government’s role in people’s lives, were supposed to give people a view of the two men vying for the [...]

A proclamation by the President of the United States of America: The founders of our Nation’s first colleges and universities for African Americans shared a fundamental belief that, with the right education, all people can overcome barriers of injustice to achieve their fullest potential. These pioneers understood that education means emancipation – a path to freedom, independence, and success. More [...]

  Actress Keke Palmer spoke to hundreds of students at Bethune Cookman University this past week urging the importance of voting and promoting her top candidate for the election, President Barack Obama. “We are the future. Young adults identify with me,” Palmer said about why she’s working to help re-elect the president. Palmer spoke on crucial issues that she believes [...]

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Baltimore. As the American presidential elections heat up as we get closer to September, President Obama clearly leads amongst African Americans in polling, but he needs African Americans to actually go to the polls, not just answer phone calls about how they’re going to vote. [...]

Democrats open their national convention Tuesday offering President Barack Obama as America’s best chance to revive the ragged U.S. economy and asking voters to be patient with incomplete results so far. Michelle Obama, in her opening-night speech, aims to give people a very personal reminder of “the man that he was before he was president.” “The truth is that he has [...]

During the National Urban League’s annual convention in New Orleans, La., President Obama delivered a speech that could be a significant turning point for local HBCUs, Morgan and Coppin State University, who are suffering tremendously from low retention rates. In a crowd of approximately 3,700 supporters, Obama proposed his new executive order, which seeks to improve educational achievement for African [...]

(CNN) – President Barack Obama weighed in this week on a hazing incident at Florida A&M University which attracted national attention and resulted in the death of a band member. Following a campaign appearance in the state on Thursday, CNN affiliate WCTV in Jacksonville caught up with the president who commented on last November’s death of band member Robert Champion. [...]

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheldPresident Obama’s health care overhaul law, saying its requirement that most Americans obtain insurance or pay a penalty was authorized by Congress’s power to levy taxes. The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joining the court’s four more liberal members. The decision was a victory for Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats, affirming the central [...]

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Alabama A&M University will play a special role next month in the 90th birthday celebration of Rev. Joseph Lowery, the renowned civil rights activist and native of Huntsville. Renowned conductor and composer Dr. Henry Panion, an Alabama A&M University alumnus, will conduct a symphony in the Oct. 9 birthday tribute to Lowery. Dr. Panion will conduct the Atlanta [...]

The First Lady of USA will be a speaker at the 124th commencement on May 15, 2011