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Monthly Archives: January 2009

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While I Was In School…

January 31, 2009by the uppity negro 5 Comments

My sincere apologies. It must be the start of school if I’m not blogging consistently.  The 100,000 post really doesn’t count as a serious blog, but school has started and […]

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Politics, Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color Line
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100,000 Visitors!

January 26, 2009by the uppity negro 5 Comments

  Yeah y’all, I’m at 99,761 visitors to the Uppity Negro Network site as of me dropping this particular posts.  Thanks for the love over the last 15 months guys. […]

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Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro
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It Almost Didn’t Happen, But Thank God It Did: an Uppity Negro Inauguration Story Part One

January 24, 2009by the uppity negro 3 Comments

How does one really write about the inauguration and really capture the moment? Seriously, what does even a reporter begin to sit down at their laptop and submit the leading […]

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Politics, Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color Line
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In Other Random Uppity Negroness

January 23, 2009by the uppity negro Leave a comment

Slightly prior to the inauguration, over winter break, I was asked to do a book review on a graphic book entitled Still I Rise:  A Graphic History of African Americans. […]

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The 2009 Presidential Inauguration of the First Uppity Negro, Barack Hussein Obama

January 21, 2009by the uppity negro 3 Comments

Alright readers. For anyone who knows me, I’m back in the District and it’s like my second home to me, especially after doing the internship this year.  Thanks to the […]

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Rick Warren and the mess that was the Keynote Address at Ebenezer Baptist Church

January 19, 2009by the uppity negro 3 Comments

Updates to come… But let the record show that Rick Warren did a complete and total and utter disservice to the legacy that was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. […]

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Church and Society, Politics, Theology of Preaching
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An Uppity Update — UNN Heads to Washington, D.C.

January 18, 2009by the uppity negro 2 Comments

Um, yeah y’all I’m headed to Washington, D.C. round about 2p.m. after church. And I’m waking up this morning, I turned on CNN (seems to be the poison of choice […]

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I Have No Words…For the King Committee Picking Rick Warren for MLK Day Speaker

January 17, 2009by the uppity negro 5 Comments

I mentioned it earlier this month in a blog, but I didn’t devote a whole blog to it, but, um, yeah, I really don’t have words to describe my ultimate […]

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Church and Society, I Have No Words, The Color Line
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Eric Holder’s Uphill Battle

January 15, 2009by the uppity negro 3 Comments

The bellwether for the dismal position that the U.S. Department of Justice had found themselves in presented itself in the attempted suicide of Mychal Bell at the end of last […]

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Politics, The Color Line
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UNN Live Blogging of American Idol–Pt. 2 (First Hour Only)

January 14, 2009by the uppity negro 7 Comments

1. Ms. Marquadt. A cat jumping off the Empire State Building.  It’s official, I’m not a friend of Kara right about now.  She has totally thrown it off. But, she […]

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