The Post Newsgroup attended the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado to witness and participate in the ratification of Senator Barack Obama as the first acknowledged African American to be selected as their Presidential nominee. Photos by Ace Washington, Kevin Jefferson, Gay Plair Cobb, Conway Jones and graphic design by Alapi Bhatt.
U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Mary Landrieu, D-La., sent a letter to all federal agencies calling on them to begin implementing the contracting parity provisions included in the Small Business Jobs Act that President Obama signed into law last month. These provisions put the small business government contracting programs – Historically [...]
After Attorney General Jerry Brown campaign apologized to Republican Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman for calling her a “whore,” he was forced to repeat his plea for forgiveness at the third debate. “It’s unfortunate, I’m sorry it happened, and I apologize,” the 72-year-old former governor said. But Whitman, 54, seemed to be left unsatisfied by Brown’s [...]
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President Obama Resists Calls for Special Programs for Black Jobless Jobs Are Coming Back—But Are They Black? By Dayo Olopade The employment statistics for January are out—and the jobless rate for America now sits at 9.7 percent. While the country lost 20,000 jobs last month, this figure is a slight improvement over December’s rate of [...]
