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What a week it has been. Earlier in the Cherry Pickin’ post, The Buzz detailed the Obama Cut. Below is the transcript from the President’s address to Congress. Give it a read while Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes let you know what time it is. The President’s Address to the Congress Wake Up, Everybody –…

The Clip: Managing Madea The Buzz can in no way, shape, or form knock Tyler Perry’s hustle. He is a self-made millionaire whose success and prosperity is based largely on shrewd business savvy and loyalty; loyalty to the fan base who support him because of the stories he tells. The reason he has been able to move…

The New York Times: Obama’s Iraq Pullout Plan Gains GOP Support, Hell Freezing Over TBT: Hm. Perhaps the President really can get somewhere with this “purpling” of the government. Or maybe they’re just biding their time. The Washington Post: Pondering a Newspaper Bailout, Constitution Sighs TBT: Going against the spirit of the free market is…

Some time in the not too distant future, some enterprising opera company is going to present a work by a hoops-loving composer based on the life of former New York Knicks guard Stephon Marbury. In fact, with the latest chapter in Marbury’s star-crossed saga—his exit from the Knicks after the world’s longest buyout negotiation—and his…

If you’re accessible to anyone under five feet, you likely know about it already. Those of us glued to YouTube have certainly spotted it. But in case you’ve been living under the rock called adulthood, perhaps Nate Robinson doing it during All Star Weekend’s Slam Dunk contest has finally introduced you to the newest dance…

Last night, premiering its new documentary, Newbos: The Rise of America’s New Black Overclass, CNBC smooth blew the lid off of a heretofore little known phenomenon—African Americans making extraordinary strides in the fields of professional sports and popular music. In interviews with the Wall Street Journal’s Lee Hawkins, author of the forthcoming book by the…

I’ve been waiting a long time for Medicine for Melancholy, a small, independent film is the debut effort from writer-director Barry Jenkins. It’s a love story that’s not about love. It is a movie that examines race, but there are no large black men in drag; no broad farcical elements; no hip-hop; no bling; no family…

“A corner to cool-out in”, as coined by loyal Buzzonian Jason Quinn. Well over here in our small corner of the web, The Buzz wants you to know your hard hours are work will be reward in paradise—the paradise of music that is.  So sit back, click through, and listen up. This is The Cool-out…

Danielle Belton, aka The Black Snob, goes in on your boy and explains why a Republican wiping up of Keyes isn’t worth the toilet tissue. Don’t look at us; we’ve known this guy was…”a real character.”

Cameron Giles, better known to (some of) the world as Cam’ron, Killa Cam or “that dude who told Anderson Cooper he wouldn’t even snitch on a serial killer,” will be adding to that litany: The Black Larry David, the mind behind Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Cam’ron’s Enthusiasm This is almost as good as The…