Honestly, for about 25 seconds of my life I saw myself as the youngest elected mayor of the City of Chicago once I saw the first tweet that Hizzoner Richard M. Daley would not be seeking a seventh term in office. And then I figured if nothing else, this blog was enough to keep me […]
Read more "No Country for Rahm Emanuel and Other Potential Candidates for the Mayor of Chicago"This is a post that I pulled from August 2009, barely 8 months into Obama’s new presidency, after a summer doing an internship in Jacksonville, Florida and about to enter my final year of graduate school. Sit back and enjoy, and leave a comment. JLL Recently as we’ve decided to talk a bit more candidly […]
Read more "UNN.com Throwback Week — Revisiting the Field Negro and the House Negro"I guess with the Today Show doing a piece on Chicago’s Olympic bid for the 2016 Summer Games earlier this week, it solidified that the rest of the country was aware of the city’s bid. And I guess it was the beginning of the country’s rallying cry to the International Olympic Committee for the Games […]
Read more "UNN.com Throwback Week — Why I’m Against The 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago?"A couple of weeks ago, one of my professors had us read the “Mini-Apocalypse” in the biblical scriptures found in the Gospel of Matthew 24:3-8 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of […]
Read more "UNN.com Throwback Week — The End of the Age"Editors note: This is probably going to be one of my longer posts, maybe not, depends on how quickly I work it out. But if I go over my standard 1,500 characters so be it. So go get get the tea, coffee or print this bad boy out because I’m here until it’s done. A […]
Read more "UNN.com Throwback Week — Being Black and Dealing With Postcolonialism in a Postmodern World"I reached way back for this Throwback Week post. I was doing an internship in the northwest suburbs of Washington, DC during the summer of 2008 and its experiences certainly gave me a different perspective; a different worldview. This post was a direct result of that summer 2008 experience. I believe its content is still […]
Read more "UNN.com Throwback Week — The Dominant Subordinate Culture"Hot off the press from tonight, the latest in news to affect the institutional Black Church, both old and new, has been the lawsuit against Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church of Lithonia, Georgia. This seems to be yet another brick chipped away in already bruised and battered institutional Black Church. […]
Read more "And The Walls Come Tumba’ling Down: The Religious Politics of Eddie Long"In honor of Throwback Week, todays post comes from October 15, 2009. Sit back and enjoy. JLL First stated, what school doesn’t have a dress code somewhere on the books. I know my high school had one, that no one really enforced. My college, Dillard University, had one that they tried to enforce. They were […]
Read more "UNN.com Throwback Week — The Crossroads of Assimilation and Elitism: The Implementing of the new Morehouse Dress Code"In honor of the UNN.com Throwback Week, I will be republishing older posts that I consider to be some of my classics. Today’s post was originally published January 12, 2010. JLL In the past week, the country has been treated to backroom comments made by high profile politicians as quoted in a tell-all book Game […]
Read more "UNN.com Throwback Week — Dealing With The Specter of Ontological Blackness"Not because I don’t feel like writing, or that I’m busy, but really, I want to reach back find what I consider to be some of my classic posts, and just run them again. Yes, I’m that vain. No, honestly, I do consider myself to be pretty decent in my writing and that some of […]
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Joshua Lawrence Lazard 