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White House National Small Business Week Agenda (update)

Posted on May 16, 2011 by | Leave a comment

It’s National Small Business Week, an opportunity to celebrate the spirit and ingenuity of small businesses in Harlem.The President’s National Economic Council released The Small Business Agenda: Growing America’s Small Businesses to Win the Future, a report highlighting the importance of expanding and supporting the growth of entrepreneurs and small businesses across the nation.   Continue reading →

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White House Goes ‘Pink’ For Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Posted on October 16, 2010 by | Leave a comment

The White House became the ‘Pink House’ late Thursday in a visible show of support for Breast Cancer Awareness month. Continue reading →

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The First Lady Honors the First Lady of Dance at the White House

Posted on September 8, 2010 by | Leave a comment

In the end, it was a wonder the three massive chandeliers gracing the White House East Room remained intact, given the high-voltage expenditure of human energy taking place beneath them.

Tuesday’s inaugural performance of the new White House Dance Series transformed the stately room into a stage for some of the world’s most talented dancers to strut their stuff: Endless pirouettes, gravity-defying leaps, and some crazy one-handed spinning handstands, too. Continue reading →

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Marcus Busts Out the Baby Photos

Posted on June 18, 2010 by | 1 Comment

Food

CNN’s “African Voices” goes to Sweden to meet the woman (aka his mother) who adopted Marcus Samuelsson (she doesn’t really sweat the celebrity-chef thing so long as he calls once a week), as well as to Harlem (where he lives and) where the Red Rooster chef currently gives cooking classes in his apartment and met his wife, Maya Haile. Continue reading →

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Obama move to a ‘National Mission’

Posted on June 15, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Politics

President Obama summoned Americans on Tuesday to a “national mission” to move away from reliance on oil …

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Obama tonight from the Oval Office

Posted on June 15, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Politics

President Obama speaks tonight from the Oval Office—marking his first use of the setting historically reserved for the gravest of crises.

Obama will address the nation for the first time from the Oval Office. That it is the first time is remarkable in itself. No feedback. Just one camera. No cut-aways. Continue reading →

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Marcus Samuelsson at the White House

Posted on June 15, 2010 by | 1 Comment

Health

Harlem’s Marcus Samuelsson and hundreds of chefs from all over the country converge on the South Lawn at the White House with fist lady Michelle Obama to celebrate the Chefs Move to Schools program with local students.

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Act Like A Democrat In A Democratic Primary

Posted on June 5, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Politics
Artur Davis
The surprisingly lopsided loss of Rep. Artur Davis in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama on Tuesday has been scrutinized for broader political lessons.

How could Davis, once considered the fastest rising star among a young class of African-American pols, fall so fast and so unexpectedly? Continue reading →

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Yankees at the White House

Posted on April 26, 2010 by | 2 Comments

Sports

President Obama hosted the Yankees at the White House today to honor their 2009 World Series win.

And Obama, a die-hard White Sox fan, couldn’t help but take the Yankees down a peg or two. Continue reading →

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Illegal Obama Swag Killed in Times Square

Posted on January 9, 2010 by | Leave a comment

President Obama’s career as a fashion model is over – in two weeks.

Weatherproof, the New York-based outerwear company, said it will comply with the White House’s request to take down a huge Times Square billboard featuring the commander in chief wearing on of its jackets.

Freddie Stollmack, the company’s president, told The Associated Press he decided to cooperate with the White House’s request to drop the ad campaign.

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