A young activist wants to rally women voters around recent scandals to fight what critics have called a conservative “war on women.”
At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Obama joked that while his first term saw him singing Al Green, his second term will be all about Young Jeezy. So which hip-hop songs should the President cover? NewsFeed has a few suggestions.
The scandal has no doubt shifted international focus off of the diplomatic mission that brought Obama to Latin America. Economic cooperation was one of the issues on his agenda, but not the kind that ended up in Saturday’s papers.
On Monday, amid the festivities at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, with the help of the First Family, the President read Maurice Sendak’s classic childrens’ book to a gathered crowd of children.
When blues legend Buddy Guy asks you to sing and Mick Jagger hands you a microphone, you sing. Even if you’re the President of the United States.
Each week, TIME’s Kayla Webley fills you in on the goings on in the education world, everything from pre-K to higher ed.
It was love at first sight for Wilbur, who fell for Theresa, now 96, while she was skating at a roller rink in Centralia, Ill.
– The spike in sales last week of Al Green’s 1971 single “Let’s Stay Together” after President Obama sang a line from the song at a campaign event in New York on Jan. 19. With 16,000 downloads, it was the track’s best week since Nielsen SoundScan began calculating downloads in 2003.
Each week, TIME’s Kayla Webley fills you in on the goings on in the education world, everything from pre-K to higher ed.
Wednesday’s links ponder remixes, Twitter blunders and smartphones under threat.
