Obama faces backlash for comments toward Black men

Former President Obama is drawing backlash for recent comments calling on Black men to turn out for Vice President Harris in November’s election. 

At a campaign stump for Harris on Thursday in Pittsburgh, Obama said that despite Harris raising upward of $1 billion, “we have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running.”

That lag in energy, he added, appears “to be more pronounced with the...