On December 20, this country more or less quietly marked the sesquicentennial anniversary of the day South Carolina drafted secession papers and formally seceded from the United States of America in 1860. Their secession was ratified on December 24, four days later. At issue for them was the nebulous idea of states’ rights entangled with […]
Read more "A House Still Divided: 150 Years Since the March to the Civil War"Famously in recent memory, former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin made the declaration in 2006, less than a year after Hurricane Katrina that New Orleans would still be a “chocolate city” to allay fears of New Orleans citizens displaced after the storm that white land grabbers and corporations were going to come in and […]
Read more "Vanishing Chocolate Cities: The Failure of the Black Middle Class"Yesterday, December 7th, President Barack Obama let it be known in his press conference that he was in favor of extending the Economic and Jobs Growth Tax Reconciliation Acts of 2001 and 2003 respectively, colloquially known as the “Bush tax cuts,” that were set to expire on December 31st. This was a highly controversial plan that […]
Read more "Premature Autopsies: The Obama Administration"I went to go see “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 1” today at the local IMAX theatre. I figured that if I was going to spend $11 on a regular ticket at a downtown theatre that’s closest to me, I might as well go to see it in IMAX. So, I saw the […]
Read more "When Fantasy World Hits Home: A Social Gospel of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (and another novel I read as well)"Friday, November 5th signaled the end of a rough four days for many blacks here in America. The 2010 Midterm Elections. The Democrats took a “shellacking” to borrow the term used in Wednesday morning’s hour long press conference given by Barack Obama. Many governor’s mansions flipped over to the Republicans; the House of Representatives changed […]
Read more "Uppity Negro Network Newsbriefs: A Bad Week for Black Progressives"[Editor’s Note: As the writing of this blog piece at 11:30 pm Central Daylight time, this midterm election wasn’t as bad as GOP was projecting. Sadly, the Democrats, in typical Democratic fashion, escaped only by default.] Let’s be honest, the Democrats yet again lost this race just as much as the Republican’s won this race. […]
Read more "A Dose of Reality: Election Night 2010, An Uppity Negro Perspective"On Wednesday, October 20, CNN.com posted a news article entitled “Black preachers who ‘whoop’ — minstrel or ministers?” that amongst the black churchy folk was a subject of tweets and Facebook status updates; many went so far as to link the news story to their Facebook pages engendering comments aptly defining the “whoop” (pronounced “hoop”) […]
Read more "Mainstream Media Gets It Wrong Again: The Black Church in American Culture"The older I get the more disillusioned I become with politics. Of course I’m all for third parties and their candidates, but this time, I don’t feel comfortable voting for one knowing that it could possibly mean that the Democrats wouldn’t control the Congress for the next two years. But, I’ve always said that […]
Read more "Why The Democrats Should Win, But Probably Won’t"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"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 