An Uppity Negro Response to Robert M. Franklin’s “The Soul of Morehouse and the Future of the Mystique”

Circulating around the internet since late April has been this town hall speech that the 10th president of Morehouse College, Robert Michael Franklin, delivered addressing the “Renaissance Men of Morehouse.” He assumed the position while I was here in Atlanta after the esteemed President Walter Massey stepped down from the position. Franklin entered the position […]

Check out the New Links!

Okay Networkers, school’s out forever for the summer and hopefully I’ll be able to post a bit more regularly than I have. I see that my blog on Perez Hilton and the Miss California controversy still seems to be generating comments. GREAT!! Keep ’em coming! In the meantime, I’ve discovered some new blogs, and a […]

Why Do I Have To Cross This River?

The title comes from a scene in the Spike Lee movie Miracle at St. Anna, his WWII adaptation of James McBride’s novel. As the company was crossing the Serchio river into enemy territory, Chocolate Giant, Pvt. 1st Class Train asks the timid question “Why do we have to cross this river?” This past weekend, as my […]

Friday Fool Fest from Facebook

Okay. It’s Friday, I’m COMPLETELY burned out from this semester and I still have two more papers to finish. But, to ease the pain of this semester and the withdrawal symptoms I’m enduring, I’ve discovered this new app on Facebook where they design quizzes to help determine personalities, which city you should live in, how […]

Guest Post over at AverageBro

I guess next time I do a guest blog over at AverageBro I should ask for at least a cubicle in the office so I don’t have to worry about schlepping a whole buncha stuff over each time, lol. No, seriously, all jokes aside, I breached an interesting topic over there and I wasn’t sure […]

The Transformative Testimony of My Tears

Dr. Teresa Fry-Brown, homiletics professor at Emory University’s Candler School Theology preached a message entitled “The Transformative Testimony of Tears” from John 20 when Mary was at the empty tomb of Jesus on this metaphorical Easter Sunday morning. She encountered the angels who told asked her why she was crying, and eventually turned as saw […]

Study Break Shout Out: The Uppity Negro Pays Homage to “The Black Snob”

This is a quick study break for me, but I feel compelled to write it. I saw via Twitter that in the midst of fellow black blogger Danielle Belton, bka The Black Snob‘s eastern seaboard tour that she was going to be in Washington, D.C. urreah (dat’s where it’s at!), but more so that she was […]

Study Break

I guess I’m like Jonathan L. Walton, who mentions on his blog that every once in a while he stumbles upon “great moments in Gospel [music] history” that act as much needed breaks from research. I was emailed the following clip on Facebook, but I opened it in the midst of a research break at […]

The Changing Image of the New Black Male: College Hill, South Beach

Yes, I’m going there. I’m going all the way there. One of the joys of this blog is being the cultural critic and having the platform and the ability to provide my opinion on any and everything. And I must say that after watching this last week’s episode of BET’s College Hill: South Beach that […]

A Definite Crisis In The Village

Of course I’m stealing that title from Robert M. Franklin’s book Crisis In the Village. But, he’s quite right: there is a crisis in the village when two young boys commit suicide due to children taunting them. Down here in Georgia another young boy by the name of Jaheem Herrera was found hanging in his […]

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