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Image by BL1961 via Flickr Global Research By Michael Carmichael planetarymovement.com As Barack Obama approaches the helm of the American ship of state, he is facing many challenges. Just as she was being born at the dawn of her journey into history, the American nation is poised on the brink of a ...

In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution prohibited Marian Anderson, one of the great singers of her era, from performing in Constitution Hall before an integrated audience.  In response, Eleanor Roosevelt persuaded Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes—father of the Harold Icke...

Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office as the nation's first African American president yesterday, summoning a vast crowd and a watching nation to the task of reviving a country in crisis....

Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office as the nation's first African American president yesterday, summoning a vast crowd and a watching nation to the task of reviving a country in crisis....

President Barack Obama’s inaugural speech was an inspiring call to national service. But you have to read it closely. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries January 20, 2009 A Long Train Ride January 20, 2009 And Now for the Cabinet Confirmations January 20, 2009 Kennedy Collapses During Inaugura...

President Barack Obama’s inaugural address will rank with Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream� as one of the greatest speeches in the English language. He ranged across American history and the dreams of Americans in oratory that soared as high as the eagle and burned with the passion of th...

President Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America today, succeeding George Walker Bush. Obama, as usual, gave an excellent speech inspiring the nation towards service, hope, and a brighter future. His speech had much of the same structure as President ...

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......