President Barack Obama answers a question from a local resident after delivering remarks at McKinley High School in Baton Rouge
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President Barack Obama hugs Chedra Joseph, McKinley Senior High School student of the year, as she introduces him at a town hall
“Where the jazz makes you cry, the funerals make you dance, and the bayou makes you believe all kinds of things.”
President Barack Obama holds a child as he greets residents in the the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans for the 10th anniversary since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Tremé is one of the oldest black neighborhoods in America
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President Barack Obama with Mayor Mitch Landrieu
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President Barack Obama sits for lunch at Willie Mae’s restaurant with young men from My Brother’s Keeper initiative
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President Barack Obama participates in a roundtable on Hurricane Katrina at the Andrew P. Sanchez Community Center in New Orleans
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President Barack Obama speaks during an event to mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on August 27, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. President Obama spoke at the Andrew P. Sanchez & Copelin-Byrd Multi-Service Center located in the Lower 9th Ward, a largely African-American neighborhood that was one of the hardest hit by the storm
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President Barack Obama meets with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates, in the Oval Office of the White House
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President Obama is headed to @EvergladesNPS on #EarthDay to discuss the need to #ActOnClimate: go.wh.gov/S984Qb http://t.co/sNfDvBi9WM
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 20, 2025"This is the only planet we’ve got." —Obama on why it's time to #ActOnClimate: pbpo.st/1P4UOmX #EarthDay http://t.co/g9009kn956
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"Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008." —Obama: go.wh.gov/Pk4j7N http://t.co/xyhhAIhqXr
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 20, 2025Readout of President Obama's meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the #UnitedArabEmirates wh.gov/iBWlt
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First Lady Michelle Obama smiles as she is introduced by Dylan Tete, an Iraq War veteran and executive director of Bastion Community of Resilience, at an event honoring efforts to help homeless veterans in New Orleans. First Lady Michelle Obama and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu spoke Monday to leaders from government, industry and the non-profit sector. The topic was the Mayors Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness, which Obama started last June. She said the city has moved more than 260 veterans into housing since the initiative began
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Worth a read: The First Lady and @DrBiden on preventing and ending veteran homelessness in America: bit.ly/1HMgLoJ
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The First Lady (@FLOTUS) April 20, 2025The First Lady's celebrating New Orleans ending vet homelessness! Got Qs? Ask with #HonoringVets by 2:30pm ET on Tues http://t.co/vsJSYdlpUB
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Teen who lost home in Hurricane Sandy has been accepted to 7 Ivy League schools: abcn.ws/1bcOkU9 http://t.co/gDt2x9lZRn
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ABC News (@ABC) April 20, 2025A 1782 use of "African-American" is found, pushing the known origin of the term back 53 years nyti.ms/1G115cS http://t.co/Z1ovTquIt9
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#FreddieGray dies after cops severed 80 percent of his spine. 3chicspolitico.com/2015/04/19/fre…. http://t.co/J4jUh9h8xL
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(@3ChicsPolitico) April 20, 2025Freddie Gray dies a week after possible arrest-related spinal injury, attorney says: abcn.ws/1D7RSyp http://t.co/rhfq0RfJj9
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This is the timeline re: #FreddieGray released by the Baltimore Police Department. http://t.co/FiFoE3ZyIC
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deray mckesson (@deray) April 19, 2025Incredible work today by many organizers that led to the passage of the STL City Police Civilian Oversight Board!
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“Of the 10,000 bicycle tickets issued by Tampa police in the past dozen years, the newspaper found that black cyclists received 79 percent of those citations, despite making up less than a quarter of the city’s population.”
In Florida, police are waging a war on black bicycle riders, investigators say washingtonpost.com/news/morning-m… http://t.co/tpTp91iseE
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deray mckesson (@deray) April 18, 2025When deployed to Ferguson in November, the MO National Guard referred to protesters as "enemy forces" cnn.com/2015/04/17/pol…
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President Obama with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Senator Mary Landrieu and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, September 3
Coming up (all times ET):
6:0: President Obama receives a briefing at Emergency Operations Center, Saint John the Baptist Parish, La.
6:50: Tours damage caused by Hurricane Isaac
7:20: Delivers a statement at Saint John the Baptist Parish, La.
I’m not sure what coverage there’ll be of PBO in Louisiana, apart from his 7:20 statement, but keep checking the links:
C-Span * CNN * CBS 1 * CBS 2
White House live
8:15: Departs New Orleans
10:45: Arrives at the White House
…Buddy what’s-his-name has declared for 2012
CBS: Former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer has announced that he is forming an exploratory committee for a possible 2012 presidential run…
The one-term governor, who switched from the Democratic party to the GOP midway through his term in 1991, has been largely inactive in politics since his gubernatorial re-election defeat in the early 1990s. (He also launched a failed gubernatorial campaign in 1995.) Still, he says, “I’d love to be president.”
“I would settle for somebody better than me, but I haven’t seen them out there.”
Salon: Are you a major corporation that wants to do business with the state of Louisiana? The bad news is you can only donate $5,000 directly to Governor Bobby Jindal. The good news is, you can give an unlimited amount of money to his wife’s charity, the Supriya Jindal Foundation for Lousiana’s Children.
….corporations including Marathon Oil, AT&T, Northrup Grumman, Dow Chemical, Alon USA, and various state contractors have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the foundation. All of those companies have business with the state. All of them received permits or evaded fines or won contracts.
Everyone involved in this pay-to-play-ish venture claims nothing untoward is going on. The major corporations simply love children. And if, following an oil company’s donation, “state environmental officials [ease] requirements for the company to check for spills of oil, ammonia or other contaminants in waterways,” well that’s just a coincidence.
Supriya Jindal’s foundation reportedly does good work, handing out free “high-tech whiteboards,” to low-income schools across the state….
Full article here
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