The Strange Occurrence of the Uppity Negro and the Uncle Tom: Jalen Rose and Grant Hill

On this past Sunday night, ESPN had a much anticipated documentary on the namesake Fab Five team of starters on the 1991-92 Michigan (University of Michigan) basketball squad. They’re known for radically changing the aesthetics of college basketball and the NBA as we know it–and being good basketball players at that. For what was a […]

Living In Lo-Debar: The Miscommunication of Religious Politics

Last night I received an email last night on Facebook email that led me to the blog of Rai King. The article was sensationally entitled “Taking A Stand Against a Child Molesting Pastor.” I went on to read the article and realized that this was a piece written naming Bishop Johnathan Alvarado of Total Grace […]

Corporal Punishment and the Pornography of Violence: An Armchair Case Study of St. Augustine Catholic School

Corporal punishment in schools has been an issue of debate for a couple of centuries in Western society in the modern era. To fast forward to just the last century or so there had been cases of corporal punishment that wasn’t just extended toward children, but also toward women as well. It wasn’t until the […]

Point-Counterpoint Guest Post: Why Obama WILL Be Re-Elected Next Year

Today, The Urban Politico and The Uppity Negro have joined forces to tackle an impending question that has rapidly moved to the forefront of our collective minds in these recent days since we’ve officially arrived in the year 2011: Will President Barack Obama be re-elected next year? It’s a simple question but it doesn’t necessarily […]

State of Emergency: We Who Believe In Freedom Cannot Rest

At the risk of sounding yet another clarion call for action that goes unheard, I still feel compelled to discuss the massive and total failure of many of our systems that are in place within the boundaries of the black community. The failure to do what needs to be done is comparable to the levee […]

We Do Big Things: Celebrating Obama as Head of Empire, Redux

In March 2009, not even a full three months after President Barack Obama had been sworn into office, I wrote a blog entitled “Celebrating Obama as Head of Empire.” It flew under the radar for the most part except for my then small blogging audience that read and commented. It was a notion that I […]

Jay-Z Was Wrong, Numbers Do Lie

Men lie; women lie; numbers don’t. Jay-Z famously made that quote in 2009 at the American Music Awards and it entered the pop cultural lexicon as a bellwether for truth and stark reality. This statement was made with regards to records sales; he was still able to move units in a day and age where […]

Off The Beaten Path: Men’s Fashion

As a rule here at the Uppity Negro Network, I generally stick to the tried and true topics of controversy: race, religion and politics. Those are always sure to bring in readers and are good topics to try and parse for the sake of bettering humanity. But, as has been the case over the years, […]

Premature Autopsies: The Obama Administration

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 […]

When Fantasy World Hits Home: A Social Gospel of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (and another novel I read as well)

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 […]

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