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The welcome was offered by President-elect Barack Obama on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Sunday afternoon. After laying a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden joined the celebration on the National Mall. It’s chilly, but it feels good in Washington, D.C. with 48 hours until…

While some listen for echoes of Lincoln in Obama’s inaugural speech, others will hear Malcolm and Martin. Read Michael Eric Dyson’s full article here.

Back when President-elect Barack Obama was still slugging it out for the Democratic nomination, I took to the kitchen to soothe my frazzled nerves. (Cooking relaxes me.) What I came up with was a Hawaiian and African inspired savory supper that I called Barack pie. On the eve of the most important inauguration of our…

The selection of Yale professor and poet Elizabeth Alexander to write and deliver a poem at the inauguration of Barack Obama marks not only the return of poetry to a place of prominence in presidential history (she is only the fourth to read at a presidential swearing-in), but represents a true mind-meld between the president-elect…

We’ve all seen it—close rivals like Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski giving each other a half shake/quarter back-slap as the winner of a hard fought game leans in and says something to the loser without breaking stride as fans rush the floor. They want you to think it’s something magnanimous like, “Good game, you’ll get…

The internet became abuzz when a US Airways jetliner began its descent into the water. But people’s fears were quickly put to rest. From The New York Times reporting, it seems as if a miracle occured on the Hudson River. But, according to Newsweek, the National Transportation Safety Board refuses to speculate about what happened.…

The NFL playoffs reach their semi-final round this weekend, and after two surprising early rounds a lot of eyebrows are still stuck on the ceiling. It’s not as if someone snuck some habanero peppers in the guacamole; the results of the games have been that surprising. The Arizona Cardinals, a team that has been so…

If I got to choose a coast I got to choose the East I live out there, so don’t go there But that don’t mean a nigga can’t rest in the West… Cali got gunplay, models on the runway… —The Notorious B.I.G., “Going Back to Cali” Watching Notorious is like time traveling to back to…

Here’s one more reason to keep General Motors afloat for at least a while longer, even as the company announced Thursday that it has revised its 2009 sales estimate downward—a black president has to have a brand new Cadillac. The Buzz doesn’t have anything against imports, but let’s face it, the Obama family just wouldn’t look…

Spelman College sophomore Nakeita Danielle Steward didn’t have many good examples of how to handle money when she was growing up. “My father was in and out of our lives. My mother, a disabled veteran, struggled to make ends meet. She racked up a lot of debt,” she said. Nakeita, who majors in psychology and…