All Hail the Great Theocrat, Rick Santorum the First! I guess that’s what the conservative right wing party is saying in certain corners. I guess I’m taking my cue from the biblical story about Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah who refused to bow to the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, who has set up a statue of a Babylonian deity, […]
Read more "The Troubling Theology of Rick Santorum"On February 18, 2012, the family of Whitney Houston paid their final respects in an invite only, yet televised homegoing service at her home church, New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. Initial reports had said that only BET was covering the full service, but certainly shocking to me, the major cable news networks […]
Read more "The Black Church, Homegoing Services and Whitney Houston"Every once in a while, the news cycle of the life and times of the goings-on of America produces a completely blog worthy week–and usually that’s the week or so I didn’t blog. For long, long time readers, you all know that last week was a wonderful week to be a blogger. From Roland Martin getting […]
Read more "Uppity Updates: Week of February 5, 2012"I had had a long day, a very long and tiring day at work. I felt like Mr. Clark in “Lean On Me” when he decided to go to the parent meeting after his first day at Eastside High. I didn’t get home until about 10:15 that night after being at work for about 10 hours […]
Read more "Red Tails: Another Tuskegee Experiment Gone Bad"With the Iowa Caucuses a distant past and the New Hampshire primaries fading to black, all eyes are now focused on the South Carolina primaries for the Republican Party nominee. The Republican field has had its plethora of changes with candidates like Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum thrust onto center stage as of late, […]
Read more "Mormonism vs. Universalism: A Post-Racial Evangelical Dilemma"Let me be upfront: I’m a Chicago native born and raised. I tried running away from it when I graduated high school. I didn’t want to be associated with those that ate polish sausages from Maxwell Street and I didn’t want to be engaged in the lifelong South Side versus West Side and Harold’s mild […]
Read more "In Tim Tebow We Trust"I was perusing HuffPo late last week and came upon a question posed by commentator Martin Bashir posing what I thought was a thought-provoking and appropriate question: Should Herman Cain resign from his post as associate minister at his home church? To be fair, Bashir was positing this thought prior to Cain’s “suspension” of his […]
Read more "The Good Reverend Doctor Herman “Feelgood” Cain: To Minister or Not to Minister?"When we think of black themed television networks, our minds usually drift toward Black Entertainment Television–BET and it conjures a myriad of mixed sentiments. A generation divided by Robert Johnson years and the post-Robert Johnson years remember BET fondly and others that regard it as the sugary snacks of hip hop culture; that which our […]
Read more "“Reed Between the Lines” is Asking us to do Just That"This morning I log onto Facebook and I see a link to an article entitled “It’s Time for a New Black National Anthem” entitled by black cultural critic and favorite provocateur Touré. He’s making the claim from his opening paragraph that there might be a need for a new Black National Anthem given that the […]
Read more "Should We Change the Black National Anthem? My Response to Toure"I frequent the movies often enough so I had probably seen trailers for the Justin Timberlake movie “In Time” before most people and the concept that time itself was a commodity had certainly piqued my interest. It aroused my senses because being descendants of African slaves here in this country, time as we know it, is […]
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Joshua Lawrence Lazard 