While I Was In School…

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 I have a full load: Music in the Black Church (in lieu of Intro to Greek 2 taught by an incompetent professor resulting in me […]

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100,000 Visitors!

  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. Keep it uppity and keep it truthfully radical, JLL

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

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 story on CNN.com or the Washington Post about the inauguration and really capture the moment, not some file story where they “insert date” and “insert […]

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Eric Holder’s Uphill Battle

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 year.  If that name rings a bell, it should because his name was pre-eminent in the Jena 6. Mychal Bell says he felt pressure to […]

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