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A Veep Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
The Buzz gives props to Vice President Joe Biden (and to the nation’s Second Lady, Dr. Jill Biden). And Friday, President Barack Obama did as well—not wanting to squander the considerable abilities of Smokin’ Joe, the former U.S. Senate lion also known as Amtrak’s best customer, today he introduced Biden as Chair of The White…
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A Jury of Your Peers
Come 2015, the National Museum of African American History and Culture will be standing on the National Mall, 800 feet away from the National Monument. What exactly will be standing in that space, hasn’t been decided. But The New York Times’ Arts Beat blog says, six architectural teams will be duking it out for the…
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Black Conservatives Listen Up
The GOP stands poised today to elect its first black party chairman and/or its first black female co-chairman at its annual winter meeting in Washington, D.C. Whatever happens, most black people will hardly care because most blacks simply do not care what Republicans do. Ninety-six percent of us voted for President Barack Obama, and more…
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Rush to Judgment
After a two-week binge of self-indulging critique of President Barack Obama’s economic platform, today Rush Limbaugh suddenly wants to have a “serious” fiscal policy debate, writing in The Wall Street Journal, “Let’s stop the acrimony.” As comedian Martin Mull might say, “That’s mighty white of him.” Prior to Obama’s inauguration, right-wing radio host Limbaugh said, “I…
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Michelle, Our Belle
It’s difficult to avoid being completely fascinated with our new First Lady, Michelle Obama. She’s an Ivy League black woman who’s as tall and fashionable as a supermodel. She’s the mother of 10-year-old twist sporting Malia and sassy Sasha. And President Obama glows every time she’s by his side. But The Buzz is not alone…
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Closing In on Inauguration
Via CNN, here comes a neat experience to cap off your frenzied week of Barack Obama inauguration overload: the Gigapan! This cool application stitches together a series of 220 digital photographs taken from the north media tower on the Capitol during last Tuesday’s inauguration, allowing viewers to zoom in on the crowd—way in. If you…
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What Can Brown Do For You?
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama granted his first sit-down network TV interview to the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya network—the erstwhile CNN of the Middle East. As Al-Jazeera (the FOX News of the Middle East?) reflects on the reasons why it got scooped by its counterpart, viewers across the Middle East will evaluate Obama as he tries to…
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Race Doesn't Matter?
What a difference a year makes—this week marks the first anniversary of not only The Root, but President Barack Obama’s sweeping victory in the South Carolina Democratic primary, a drama-filled event that brought our nation’s racial fears, assumptions, long-held grievances—and an abundance of hope—into the winter sunlight. But do the words chanted by thousands on…
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Is It That Kind of Party?
After suffering major losses in the last two elections, Republicans have a chance to make history as well as inroads with crucial minority voting blocs next weekend when they meet to select their next chairman. Two African Americans are campaigning to lead the Republican National Committee when it holds its annual winter meeting Jan. 28-31…
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