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President Obama addressed the nation today to talk about stiffer gun control measures, an issue that made him emotional. The POTUS shed a few tears as he spoke about the countless victims of mass gun violence, including the children killed when a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

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President Obama upset Ted Cruz when he called him scared of Syrian widows and children. Cruz is clapping back, and he wants the POTUS to stop talking trash from afar and run up.

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Taye Diggs has a bi-racial son with Broadway star Idina Minzel that he doesn’t want to be identified only as a Black guy. The actor says labeling his child one race disregards his mother, who is of Eastern European descent.

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Few things make a celebrity backpedal faster than being exposed for racist behavior (just ask the folks at Anonymous).

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The 2016 Presidential Election is an entire calendar year from now, but that hasn’t stopped the debates and endless sound bites.

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GOP Twitter is literally going crazy over an unsubstantiated claim about President Obama. Someone please call 911.

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Emma Didlake, America’s oldest known veteran died in a longterm care facility Sunday (Aug. 16) at the age of 110. Didlake, was a longtime resident of Detroit, and passed away one month after meting President Obama.

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President Barack Obama made a historic trip to a federal prison Thursday (July 15), becoming the first sitting president in history to do so. The visit to Oklahoma’s El Reno prison is all a part of the president’s push for a reform of the criminal justice system.

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President Obama is taking a major step to against the country’s mass incarceration epidemic. The White House has announced a plan to commute sentences for what could end up being thousands of federal non-violent offenders.

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Cornell West had (more) harsh words for President Obama. West appeared on CNN yesterday to discuss the removal of the Confederate Flag, prior to the announcement of the governor’s call that it be removed from South Carolina’s Statehouse.

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While the Internet knows no chill, Fathers Day tends to be the one time just about any famous father can catch a break from the constant threat of cyber slander.

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It’s good to be the man in charge, just look at President Obama’s  expanding collection of impressive and rare kicks. The commander in chief copped a free pair of black Air Jordan 11Lab4S from after visiting the Nike  in Oregon recently.