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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…

Now the video over at Slate speaks for itself. And Bushisms author Jacob Weisberg has also ranked the outgoing prez’s top 25 quotes from the past eight years. Yes, The Buzz is ready to help Bush pack on Jan. 20, but won’t you miss his not-supposed-to-be-funny, misunderestimated utterances? Well, maybe in his retirement we’ll start…

Eric Holder has a family—and an all-American one, at that. That’s the first thing Democrats wanted everyone to know about Barack Obama’s attorney general nominee this morning. Before we got to Marc Rich and Puerto Rican nationalists and gun rights, Democrats wanted everyone to see the man who would be the first black AG as…

The Buzz can only hope that at age 71, we’ll look as good as Roland Burris, who is actually the third African American U.S. Senator from Illinois in the last 11 years. But we’re also hoping that we pick up a little more humility along life’s journey. We’d like to avoid erecting a mausoleum for ourselves,…

Oh, dear.  It looks like President-elect Obama may be starting off on the wrong foot with the New York Times.  How dare he not make time in his schedule to grant The Times’ White House correspondents their customary pre-inauguration interview? Even President Bush sat down with the “liberal media elite” days before he took his…

Blackness is fast moving to the center of the world’s psyche. For proof, look no further than last month’s crowning of a binational and biracial Miss France 2009. Chloe Mortaud’s selection as the face of French beauty and elegance has so few precedents that the French media have named her, perhaps cheaply, “Miss Obama.” In…