Americans will be grappling with a number of sensitive and critical issues throughout 2015 and beyond. Some new, some old and some never-ending – concerns about race, religion, violence, politics, guns, climate change, war and civic responsibility are just some of the issues that may polarize all or segments of the nation. We The People will bring awareness to different viewpoints in the hopes of educating its readership. Please be encouraged to join in and share your perspective.
President Obama talks about Creating Opportunity for All during his Weekly Radio Address.
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“There’s going to be one killer blues session in heaven tonight.”
President Obama had the following to say on the passing of American icon B.B. King:
“The blues has lost its king, and America has lost a legend. B.B. King was born a sharecropper’s son in Mississippi, came of age in Memphis, Tennessee, and became the ambassador who brought his all-American music to his country and the world. No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues.
Three years ago, Michelle and I hosted a blues concert at the White House. I hadn’t expected that I’d be talked into singing a few lines of “Sweet Home Chicago” with B.B. by the end of the night, but that was the kind of effect his music had, and still does. He gets stuck in your head, he gets you moving, he gets you doing the things you probably shouldn’t do – but will always be glad you did. B.B. may be gone, but that thrill will be with us forever. And there’s going to be one killer blues session in heaven tonight.”
PHOTO(s) OF THE DAY
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President Barack Obama hugs people after his remarks at the National Peace Officers Memorial Service, an annual ceremony honoring law enforcement who were killed in the line of duty in the previous year, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. May 15, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
President Barack Obama shakes hands with His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah, Amir of the State of Kuwait, as Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders prepare to have a group photo with the President outside of the Laurel Cabin at the conclusion of a summit meeting at Camp David, Md., May 14, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
President Barack Obama waves goodbye to departing guests from the South Portico of the White House following a dinner with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders, May 13, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
President Barack Obama talks backstage with moderator E. J. Dionne, Jr., left, Washington Post columnist and professor in Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy, before the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty, at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2015. Other panelists backstage are, from left, Robert Putnam, professor of public policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government and Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
President Barack Obama talks with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew in the Oval Office, May 11, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
PHOTO(s) OF THE DAY
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Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Mark Salvador of the Naval Medical Research Center demonstrates how a field containment kit is used to test viruses such as the Ebola virus during the Department of Defense Lab Day at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. May 14, 2015. (Department of Defense photo by EJ Hersom)
U.S. service members from Joint Task Force 505 and Nepalese army medical personnel treat victims of a 7.3 magnitude earthquake at a medical triage area at Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal, May 12. JTF 505 along with other multinational forces and humanitarian relief organizations are currently in Nepal providing aid after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the country, April 25. At Nepal’s request the U.S. government ordered JTF 505 to provide unique capabilities to assist Nepal. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by MCIPAC Combat Camera Lance Cpl. Hernan Vidana/Released)
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