I remember watching George Bush walk out of St. John’s Church on January 20, 2001 on the slightly rainy inauguration day that year, and I remember at 16 wondering what it would be like to see a black man as a president having to attend a white church service. I imagined that he’d be going […]
Read more "The Obamas’ Search For a Spiritual Home"Okay, I’m probably late with this clip, but here it goes Keep it uppity and keep it truthfully radical, JLL
Read more "Only at an HBCU…."So America’s favorite black voice on all things black, Michael Eric Dyson, has been given a new lease on life as far as radio show is concerned. Oprah Winfrey is confirmed as Michael Eric Dyson’s first guest on his new public radio show, the African American Public Radio Consortium announced on Tuesday. Other confirmed guests to appear in […]
Read more "The Public Intellectual Strikes Again"The black community, maybe more than any other, is affective linked to churches and their pastors to the degree that criticism of either (no matter how rational) is often viewed as nothing short of an attack on God…Unfortunately, black ministers (be they emancipators or collaborators in oppression) are often protected from secular intellectual confrontation by […]
Read more "Random Uppity Negro Quote of the Day"Hello to all you members of the Uppity Negro Network!! I’d like to invite the Network on a journey into the trials and tribulations of a third-year grad student who’s at his wits ends about graduating. Honestly, if anyone who reads this has some heads up on some opportunities PLEASE, OH PLEASE feel free to […]
Read more "Upon Becoming a Post-Graduate Negro"Don’t forget to find The Uppity Negro on Twitter and follow some random posts of mine, lol. Oh by the way, The Uppity Negress will be here on this weekend, maybe I can get her to do a guest post, lol. In other news to follow: 1. I’ve inquired about post-graduate work and I plan […]
Read more "…and in other housekeeping news"It’s an honor and privilege to say that I share the same alma mater as the Dr. John Hope Franklin who passed on this past Wednesday at the age of 94. It’s even more of a privilege to say that I got to see him in person during my one year tenure at Fisk University. […]
Read more "Celebrating the Life of a Premier Uppity Negro John Hope Franklin"Here’s an article sent by the publicist of author Marc Blatte. I hopefully plan on getting around to reviewing his novel Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed. For those interested in another review from fellow blogger and commenter Citizen Ojo on his blog,The Desultory Life and Times of a Public Citizen. Enjoy. God Love Ed McBain and Evan […]
Read more "UNN Book Reviews: I’m So Falling Behind"So, some time last week I was on Yahoo Instant Messenger and one of my friends sent me yet another YouTube Chris Brown and Rihanna clip. Check it out. This most certainly wasn’t the first and only popular YouTube clip of these two circulating the internet. Well, the second one was the first one I […]
Read more "Another Lesson I Learned from Chris Brown and Rihanna"Seriously, caption this photo guys! And Caption This! These pictures are courtesy of Badpaintingsofbarackobama.com and I just DIED laughing at that first one. Just leave your thoughts below! Keep it uppity and keep it truthfully radical, JLL
Read more "I Ain’t Hatin’…Bad Paintings of Barack Obama"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 