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A BBC poll of more than 17,000 people in 17 countries indicates that people throughout the world are optimistic about Mr. Obama’s presidency. What do YOU think?
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A very popular slogan in the USA just before the historic elections was the following: “Rosa Parks sat, so Martin Luther King could walk, so Barack Obama could run, so we could fly.” That saying describes as few the history of the civil rights movement in [...]

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Here, at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Martin Luther King has been preaching 45 years ago, African-Americans lived their big dream. The night of November 4th, full of Gospels and cries of joy, went down in history as the moment when Civil War wounds were at last healed and the [...]

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And the winner of the Democrats primaries is…….
Barack Obama seems to be the most common answer of the American media, which point out that Illinois senator’s momentum will be difficult to be overturned at this stage. In any case, maths is not Hillary’s Clinton ally, [...]

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Hillary Clinton is fighting for her bid for President and her political survival, after 11 straight wins by her Democratic rival Barack Obama. New York’s senator needs desperately clean victories in Texas and Ohio to keep her candidacy alive. According to the last [...]

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