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At the request of Barack Obama, Oscar-winning singer/actress Jennifer Hudson will perform the National Anthem,as the Illinois senator accepts the nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention this Thursday.

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama joins wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia on the September 2008 cover of Essence Magazine.

Senator Barack Obama was heckled during a rally at Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg, Florida on Friday. The group of Black protesters questioned the Democratic presidential candidate’s integrity in dealing with the Black community.

Barack Obama is distancing himself from Ludacris after the rapper recorded a profanity-laced Obama support track in slamming the senator’s adversaries. Read the rest of this entry »

Barack Obama’s life story will be the subject of a comic book to be released October 8 from IDW Publishing.

Senator Barack Obama, wife Michelle, and daughter Maia, 10, and Sasha, 7 on the August 4 issue of People Magazine.

Comedian Bernie Mac created a stir during a Friday night fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. One-fourth of The Original Kings of Comedy sparked a controversy following a set of offensive jokes during his ten minute routine at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Downtown Chicago.
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A caricature of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, and wife Michelle, on the new issue of New Yorker Magazine is being blasted as “tasteless and offensive.” Read the rest of this entry »

Usher has signed on to perform at the Democratic Convention in Denver next month.

“There’ve been offers to do things in and around the convention and we are just looking to see which one will be the most productive. He is obviously a huge Barack supporter,” the star’s manager, Benny Medina, told the New York Daily News on Sunday.