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A Pointed Difference
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…
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B.I.G.ger Than The Movie
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…
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Gwen Ifill’s ‘The Breakthrough’
From the book The Breakthrough by Gwen Ifill. © 2009 by Gwen Ifill. Posted by arrangement with Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.. chapter three baRack obaMa If you were to get a handbook on what’s the path to the presidency, I don’t think that the handbook would start by saying, “Be an African American…
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Diggin’ The Scene, With A Gangsta Lean
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…
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Financially Illiterate No More
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…
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Presenting Comedy Show Headliner: Dubya!
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…
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He's Got Some Splainin' To Do
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…
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Gaza: No Time To Play
One significant implication of the current fighting in Gaza crystallized for me a few days ago when I read the following post on my fantasy basketball message board: “Cats must think Obama is a %&$$# (rhymes with cushy).” They must—because the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the uptick in bombings in Iraq and the Gaza conflagration…
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Interracial Anxiety – Do You Have It?
Today is officially Martin Luther King’s birthday. Barack Obama will be officially named president of the United States of America in five days. Martin hoped that one day black and white children could walk hand in hand under the same flag; Obama believes Americans share far more similiarities with each other than they’re willing to…
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Burris Seated Today (We Think…)
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,…