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Merry Christmas

December 25, 2010by the uppity negro 1 Comment

Hopefully, you’re not reading this on Christmas Day. I mean honestly, who blogs on Christmas Day?  This is a timed post, I created this sometime earlier this week.  But, if […]

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A House Still Divided: 150 Years Since the March to the Civil War

December 23, 2010by the uppity negro 13 Comments

On December 20, this country more or less quietly marked the sesquicentennial anniversary of the day South Carolina drafted secession papers and formally seceded from the United States of America […]

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Off The Beaten Path: Men’s Fashion

December 18, 2010by the uppity negro 6 Comments

As a rule here at the Uppity Negro Network, I generally stick to the tried and true topics of controversy: race, religion and politics.  Those are always sure to bring […]

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Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, Stuff (This) Uppity Negro Likes
12/7/10 Annie Ricks, 54, has lived in a Cabrini-Green for the last 21 years, raising 12 of her 13 children there. Hers is one of just two families who have not yet moved out. She has until Friday to find a new place to live. David Schaper/NPR

Vanishing Chocolate Cities: The Failure of the Black Middle Class

December 14, 2010by the uppity negro 16 Comments

Famously in recent memory, former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin made the declaration in 2006, less than a year after Hurricane Katrina that New Orleans would still be a […]

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Cultural Critique, Politics, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color Line
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Premature Autopsies: The Obama Administration

December 8, 2010by the uppity negro 4 Comments

Yesterday, December 7th, President Barack Obama let it be known in his press conference that he was in favor of extending the Economic and Jobs Growth Tax Reconciliation Acts of […]

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A Silent Killer: The Raz-B Sensationalism of Sexual Molestation and Abuse

December 2, 2010by the uppity negro 6 Comments

  [Editor's note: I'm not a trained therapist nor a psychologist.  What I have written is strictly my opinion and my armchair diagnosis.  Please do not interpret this as sound […]

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