UNN Breaking News: Ohio U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones in critical condition (corrected from earlier)

What the crap!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?! I’ma need for CNN to get their breaking news headlines together. Now apparently she’s on life support and hanging on to dear life, so perhaps (this sounds so horrible what I’m about to type) she may die soon, but officially reports are that’s she’s on life support, in critical condition barely hanging […]

I Ain’t Hatin’: Rap artist Plies Establishes Scholarship

[Editor’s Note (11/6/08): I AM NOT PLIES, AND I DO NOT KNOW PLIES] I must have missed this memo because I’m sure I would have written this post a few weeks earlier. However, better late than never. Anywho… I really laughed out loud when my internet friend Trini Uppity, who about five minutes ago […]

Three More Additions

I know my blogroll is getting more and more full, but I just to make you all aware of the new additions to the Uppity Negro Network family. I actually ran across these blogs as a result of me perusing the finalists for the 2008 Black Weblog Awards. I didn’t make it, but no thang […]

Don’t Hate on My Swagger

Raving Black Lunatic wrote a while back about swagger in regards to Barack Obama and this whole idea of him coming off as overconfident, and arrogant and dare I say–uppity. But, I debated after hearing yesterday’s sermon from Rev. Otis Moss III as to whether or not I wanted to write about swagger, and I […]

Are Blacks High Maintenance?

We used to lounge around a lot during the internship, particularly if it was a slow day, and given that we had three couches in the room that was our office, it was common practice to stretch out on the couch and put our heads on the pillows–although God knows who had farted or put […]

The Role of the Black Blogosphere

To be honest, I never heard of the Black Blogosphere until the Jena 6 crap in September 2007 **goes to look for the shirt I bought just for the march around the AUC that day** The following month, my friend from Soul Jonz told me about it, and it’s been a wrap ever since then. […]

What Happens When the Unreachable is Reached?

First of all, congratulations to Michael Phelps. I don’t know what it must feel like to have such a mountaintop moment. I’ve never experienced such sheer euphoria in my life. Those normal moments such as graduations usually feel as such, but both my high school and college graduations were shattered by extenuating circumstances, both of […]

Should Blacks Take a Lesson From the Chinese?

Okay, now everyone is aware of the “wink” seen ’round the world. If not then I’m suggesting you may be living under a rock if you haven’t heard about the picture above. But, if that wasn’t enough, there’s another picture that surfaced from the Spanish women’s basketball team and the Spanish tennis team. And […]

When Boycotting Goes Wrong

Every major city has it’s resident black media hound, Atlanta has Rev. Markel Hutchins of Kathryn Johnson fame. This person is often out of the black religious tradition, not always, but often they are. They often seek change and they attempt to do so through running for an elected office, be it city council, state […]

Are We Being Fair to Kwame Kilpatrick?

Actually, it was totally laughable earlier the last seven days. On August 8th, Detroit’s mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick officially shamed much of Black America when he got arrested. The Black blogosphere went crazy and we all started quoting random facts about blacks living in cities, mentioning the Chocolate Cities of Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Gary, Ind., Chicago […]

Joshua Lawrence Lazard

The blog of the one formerly known as The Uppity Negro

Month: August 2008