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Hi, my name is Kalila Simpson, I'm 12 years old, and go to the Bruce M. Whittier Middle School in Poland. I had the chance to go to this year's Presidential Inauguration. This was a great experience by itself, but what made it really cool was the fact that this year was the first time ever in history that an African American became our great nation's president. The group that took me was called Congressional Youth Leadership Council. I got to be part of this program because when I was in fourth grade, Ms. Jan Roundy nominated me for a program called National Young Scholars Program. The organization looked at my grades and sent me a letter asking me if I'd like to go to New York for a week of leadership camp. It was also a great experience. I made new friends from all across the U.S., an...
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The beginning phase of the Schomburg started in 1926 after the New York Public Library saw the impressive personal collection of AfricanAmerican and Latino artworks, manuscripts, rare books, and slave narratives of Arturo (Arthur) Alfonso Schomburg, a Puerto Rican-American historian, writer and activist. This inspired the library to create the foundation of the Library's Division of Negro History at its 135th Street Branch in Harlem, renaming it after Schomburg when he died in 1940. In 1972, it was selected as one of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library and was renamed the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Today, the Schomburg is renowned worldwide as a leading research library "devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documentin...
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RALEIGH | Facts about North Carolina's 2009 inauguration: When and where 10 a.m. Saturday in front of the Office of Archives & History Building, 109 E. Jones St., Raleigh. This will be the seventh time the building has been the site of inaugurations, dating to 1981 and the second term of Gov. Jim Hunt. The event, which is open to the public, will begin with a concert, followed by the ceremony at 10:30 a.m. About 5,000 chairs will be set up .
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Imagine this ad on Craigslist: "Wanted: Dress designer to create a gown that will appeal to the masses and can survive a night of dancing, waving, promenading, photo ops and multiple limo exits. Applicant must be able to work in secrecy and, well, lie if the media asks about the project. Thick skin a plus, as the dress will be critiqued for decades to come. Celebrity experience not required. If only it were that easy for a first lady-to-be to find someone to design a gown worthy of the U.S. presidential inauguration evening.
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Upgrading a high-tech presidential campaign to high-tech presidency is bound to be buggy. But the incoming Obama administration has promised to use technology to dramatically change the way Americans engage government, and according to the experts, sharing information on the Web and building an online community around it will be the key. Barack Obama's campaign motivated millions through Facebook, YouTube and My.barackobama.com, a Web portal where supporters met, raised money, signed up for e-mail and text message alerts and organized their efforts. But that success doesn't mean a smooth transition to a My.barackobama.gov -- and no, that site doesn't exist.
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One day after Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. helped President Obama bungle the oath of office on Inauguration Day 2009, the president held a do-over at the White House out of "an abundance of caution" over constitutional hiccups. Now, lawmakers are wondering where that caution has gone.
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Washington -- Taking the oath of office Tuesday as the first African-American president, Barack Obama told the nation that "our time of standing pat" is over, that America can no longer afford petty politics and putting off hard decisions, that "in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America," the new president said as he gazed down the west front of the Capitol at the unfurled crowd -- proud, grateful and giddy -- that stretched to the Washington Monument and beyond.
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OKLAHOMA CITY - As she watched a television broadcast of President Obama's inauguration in January 2009, Clara Luper had tears in her eyes. The Oklahoma civil rights icon knew that her and other activists' struggle had reached a milestone with the election of the nation's first black president. This is our day," she said at the time, calling his inauguration the "fulfillment of dreams of people.
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OKLAHOMA CITY - As she watched a television broadcast of President Barack Obama's inauguration in January 2009, Clara Luper had tears in her eyes. The Oklahoma civil rights icon knew that her and other activists' struggle had reached a milestone with the election of the nation's first black president. This is our day," she said at the time, calling his inauguration the "fulfillment of dreams of people.
