At the risk of sounding yet another clarion call for action that goes unheard, I still feel compelled to discuss the massive and total failure of many of our systems that are in place within the boundaries of the black community. The failure to do what needs to be done is comparable to the levee […]
Read more "State of Emergency: We Who Believe In Freedom Cannot Rest"In March 2009, not even a full three months after President Barack Obama had been sworn into office, I wrote a blog entitled “Celebrating Obama as Head of Empire.” It flew under the radar for the most part except for my then small blogging audience that read and commented. It was a notion that I […]
Read more "We Do Big Things: Celebrating Obama as Head of Empire, Redux"Men lie; women lie; numbers don’t. Jay-Z famously made that quote in 2009 at the American Music Awards and it entered the pop cultural lexicon as a bellwether for truth and stark reality. This statement was made with regards to records sales; he was still able to move units in a day and age where […]
Read more "Jay-Z Was Wrong, Numbers Do Lie"In case you missed it, I’m moving. Those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook should already know, but in case you just missed it all, I’m moving to New Orleans. **cue the second line** Oh yes, I’ll be living in the Big Easy, the Crescent City, the City that Care Forgot….all of […]
Read more "I’m Moving…"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 you’re the lonely sap who’s actually reading blogs on Christmas Day, then I guess a Merry Christmas is in order to you and yours from […]
Read more "Merry Christmas"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 in 1860. Their secession was ratified on December 24, four days later. At issue for them was the nebulous idea of states’ rights entangled with […]
Read more "A House Still Divided: 150 Years Since the March to the Civil War"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 in readers and are good topics to try and parse for the sake of bettering humanity. But, as has been the case over the years, […]
Read more "Off The Beaten Path: Men’s Fashion"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 “chocolate city” to allay fears of New Orleans citizens displaced after the storm that white land grabbers and corporations were going to come in and […]
Read more "Vanishing Chocolate Cities: The Failure of the Black Middle Class"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 2001 and 2003 respectively, colloquially known as the “Bush tax cuts,” that were set to expire on December 31st. This was a highly controversial plan that […]
Read more "Premature Autopsies: The Obama Administration"[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 medical advice. JLL] On Sunday our church did the cardboard testimonies that have become somewhat popular in the emergent church. This is where persons write […]
Read more "A Silent Killer: The Raz-B Sensationalism of Sexual Molestation and Abuse"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 