It was only a matter of time before the hottest chick in the game, the fist-bumping First Lady, Our Belle Michelle hit the cover of Vogue. It’s no secret that The Buzz is totally sprung on Michelle. Our hearts go pitter-patter which each report of her out and about in our town: Taking the girls…

Morgan Tsvangirai, opposition leader in Zimbabwe, was sworn in as prime minister by his nemesis, President Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday. The new prime minister, who in June ran against Mugabe for president, leads the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Will Zimbabwe’s democratic tide ever take over? Mugabe, who has been quoted as saying “Zimbabwe is mine,”…

The New York Post is reporting that Chris Brown is a marked man since his alleged assault of the pop princess Rihanna. “He messed with the wrong crew,” a source told the gossip mags. Meanwhile, Brown’s reportedly abusive stepfather told Access Hollywood he wasn’t suprised at the charges. He also lectured about “taking responsibility” for…

Like many people, The Buzz has been prowling the internet, searching for the latest update on the Chris Brown/Rihanna domestic violence incident. Is RiRi okay? How could Chris Brown do this? These questions still haven’t been answered by law enforcement officials or “close, unknown sources.” While more details about the incident are slowly rolling in,…

A Duke University professor argues that white colleges need to drop ‘black student’ recruitment weekends that specifically target black high school students. “The effect of minority recruitment weekends renders all of these events as segregated as church on a Sunday morning,” Prof. Karla Holloway writes. “When we invite students to campus in effectively segregated groupings,…

The news that Clark Atlanta University is laying off 70 faculty members and getting rid of P.E. is truly alarming for a number of reasons. For one, in the so-called post-racial moment, many have been questioning the need for HBCUs anyway. We sincerely hope the enrollment freefall experienced in recent years by many HBCUs and…

NPR’s Farai Chideya sounds off about the cancellation of her popular radio show News & Notes. “I’m not convinced that any one of the theories about why our show was cancelled holds up,” she tells blogger Eisa Ulen. Chideya left the show right before inauguration, because, she says, NPR denied her the chance to cover the historic event. News…

Watching last night’s live performance of the monster hit “Swagger Like Us” at the Grammy Awards featuring the 9-months pregnant M.I.A., Lil Wayne, Kanye, Jay-Z and soon-to-be-locked-down rapper T.I., it’s clear to The Buzz who had the biggest balls on stage. Watching the Brit-by-way-of Sri Lanka’s performance last night, which happened to fall on her…

The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores some of the arguments in his new book Lincoln on Race and Slavery and the related PBS series “Looking for Lincoln.” On the bicentennial of the Great Emancipator’s birth Gates tackles the important and troubling question “Was Lincoln a racist?” And there is no end of interest…

By now you’ve gotten tagged, oh, 6 million times. The Buzz must admit we’re only mere mortals, and even we have succumbed to the “25 Random Things About Me” Facebook craze in the same herd-following way we signed up for Facebook in the first place. In the course of these taggings, we’ve learned more than…