Clearly I used that post title for shock value. I’m actually writing this on the day of the death of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, but I refuse to post as soon as I’m done with this simply because I think there are more pressing issues to deal with in life. I received a […]
Read more "The Day When Two Famous White Women Died"Now I lived in New Orleans for a hot second amounting to three years of my life, and it was just kind of common fun to poke fun at the kids from Shreveport, or as they said Port City. It was a fair number of people from Shreveport that I went to school with down […]
Read more "I Have No Words: Hurricane Chris Performs for Louisiana State Legislature"Now I lived in New Orleans for a hot second amounting to three years of my life, and it was just kind of common fun to poke fun at the kids from Shreveport, or as they said Port City. It was a fair number of people from Shreveport that I went to school with down […]
Read more "I Have No Words: Hurricane Chris Performs for the Louisiana State Legislature"Given my current line of work, I interact often with youth. Last week was definitely the case seeing as how I worked in the morning with a bunch of nine and ten year olds and in the evening I worked heavily with a middle school/junior high school bunch of school aged children. Thank God I […]
Read more "Beware The Spirit Killers: Bridging the Gap Between The Elders and the Joshua Generation"I haven’t time right now to write a whole post about it and since I got an email about this Essence article from a fellow reader, I’ve decided to post the Essence magazine article entitled “Is Sorry Enough? Black Lawmakers Respond to Senate’s Apology for Slavery” written by Cynthia Gordy and let you all discuss it […]
Read more "So We Finally Got An Apology for Slavery–and then they took it back"Okay, so this week has been my hell week on my internship. There’s a 9am-2pm session with a bunch of nine and ten year olds, and then we reconvene for the evening session from 5:30-8:30pm with a whole group of kids, pre-K through 12th grade here where I’m interning. It’s just a week long session, […]
Read more "Further Uppity Updates: Hell Week"So just a poll how many of you all would follow me on Facebook? Tryna see if I want to make a full new Facebook account or just keep it as is. Also, another housekeeping note: I’m not super great with the emails people have been sending me as far as adspace is concerned, but […]
Read more "An Uppity Update"Let me just lay my cards out on the table and be rather blunt: I haven’t agreed with everything Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright has said over the past few years. Actually, for me the biggest aught I had with him was how he hand-picked his successor following his retirement. It was my understanding that since […]
Read more "For The Last Time He’s a Pastor and Not a Politician"I always thought this was an interesting topic. I firmly remember standing in a dorm room down the hall fall of 2003 as the country was gearing up for the state primary races and caucuses from 2004 and me and this other dude who was a supreme know-it-all (and I really want to use another […]
Read more "Why Did Blacks Vote for George W. in 2004?"I know lifting the phrase “to be or not to be” from Shakespeare and inserting one’s own word is highly clichéd, but go with me on this one. Much of our image signifies who we are. Or rather, as I learned in one of my classes, it signifies who we be. We are human beings, […]
Read more "To Bling or Not To Bling"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 