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President Barack Obama referred to a videotaped attack on a Chicago mentally disabled man as "despicable" Thursday while talking about the city's crime rate. Four teens have been charged with hate crimes in connection with the violent assault captured in a Facebook Live clip.

The president had every single Cabinet head—from Commerce to the UN—release a report outlining not only its progress in the last eight years, but what still needs to be done. You listening, Mr. President-Elect?

President Obama will give his final speech on January 10 at McCormick Place, the same place he celebrated his 2012 presidential win.

Pete Souza, Chief White House Photographer, captured this administration's spirit, beauty and power.

New data shows a racial divide when it comes to how historical events are viewed.

Vladimir Putin has decided that he won’t expel any U.S. diplomats in response to President Obama’s sanctions on Russian diplomats and intelligence agencies.

The Obama administration is set to impose sanctions on Russia to punish the country for meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections. President Obama pledged this month that there would be a response to Moscow’s interference.

It’s been almost two months since the 2016 presidential election and the majority of us are still trying to forget the outcome. Unfortunately for the foreseeable future we are stuck with one Donald Trump, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t bask in the glow of the last eight years under President Obama. Apparently, President […]

According to police officials, there were 27 shootings that left 12 individuals dead and 48 others wounded.

In 1955, the death of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American teenager who was lynched after allegedly flirting with a White woman in rural Mississippi, sparked controversy across America. The two White men responsible for brutally murdering Till were let off by an all-White jury. The case brought attention to how racism is intertwined with America’s […]

When President Obama came out in support of LGBTQ lives and in favor of marriage equality in a May 2012 interview, he became the first president to connect his policy to his Christian faith in a way that substantively benefitted the LGBTQ community.

During a basketball game Monday at Warrensburg High School in Missouri, White students turned their backs during the introduction of Center High School players, who are predominantly Black.