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Monthly Archives: February 2009

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UNN Watches The 10 Annual State of the Black Union: Making America as Good as its Promise

February 28, 2009by the uppity negro Leave a comment

  It’s been 10 years since the inception of Tavis Smiley’s brain child, the  State of the Black Union which has covered a range of issues over the past years […]

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Politics, Pop Culture, The Color Line
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Good Bye to February

February 27, 2009by the uppity negro 2 Comments

This was an interesting month for me.   It was neatly situated into four compact weeks that were easily to know dates if you remembered your multiples of seven.  There […]

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Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro
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UNN Movie Review: Changeling

February 22, 2009by the uppity negro 1 Comment

Okay, one down–one more to go.   I was on the Academy Award’s list of nominees and I saw another movie I had seen last summer was up for nomination […]

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Church and Society, Movie Reviews, Pop Culture
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UNN Movie Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

February 22, 2009by the uppity negro 5 Comments

Okay, the Academy Awards are in two hours and some odd change, let’s see if I can knock out these movie reviews quick fast and in a hurry. Up on […]

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Movie Reviews, Politics, Pop Culture, The Color Line
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Catch Me If You Can, the black version

February 22, 2009by the uppity negro 8 Comments

The movie “Catch Me If You Can” was a 2003 Dreamworks release from Steven Spielberg and the whole crew of them.  It starred Leonardo DiCaprio as the real life Frank […]

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Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro
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Response to “When Does Gay Tolerance Go Too Far?”

February 20, 2009by the uppity negro 9 Comments

First of all, if this is the best writing sample that has been produced by The Maroon Tiger, then I feel as though I’ve missed my calling as a journalist […]

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Church and Society, Politics, Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro
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When Judas Is Closer Than Jesus

February 19, 2009by the uppity negro 2 Comments

Okay, I stole that from this girl that goes to school here with me; it had been her Facebook status message momentarily, but when I read this article here, I […]

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Church and Society, Politics, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro
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Obama Administration’s Silver Lining; Atty. Gen. Eric Holder calls America “a nation of cowards” when it comes to race

February 19, 2009by the uppity negro 11 Comments

Well, AMEN! Per the title of this post, that been an angle I’ve been pushing subtilely on this blog for some time now.  Of course the usuals, like Elizabeth Hasselbeck just now […]

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Politics, The Color Line, Uppity Awards
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When Does Gay Tolerance Go Too Far?

February 18, 2009by the uppity negro 7 Comments

I stumbled upon this article that was published in the The Maroon Tiger, Morehouse College’s campus newspaper.  The following is the article as published in that newspaper in it’s entirety. […]

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Politics, Pop Culture
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Creating Community

February 15, 2009by the uppity negro 2 Comments

Last year, around finals, I was in the barbershop for about two hours.  Partially because my barber always runs about 15-30 minutes behind schedule (not a big deal, I’m used […]

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Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, Theology of Preaching

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