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 […]

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 […]

I Have Something To Say: an Uppity View on Miss USA and Perez Hilton

One of the random misconceptions that most liberals won’t let you get away with is the idea of “freedom.” Sadly, it has been in the history of Africans living here in the diaspora of North America learning that freedom, is in fact not free. It always costs something. Stephen King at the end of his […]

To Those Who Left The Revolution….

I never really knew I felt about the whole Cuban-U.S. relations until recently. As a kid growing up, I heard about the tenets of Communism and frankly it all sounded GRRREAT to me. Especially in light of the Christian teachings I heard growing up about how Christ was for ALL people, and this semi-universalist slant […]

I Want To Teabag the TeaBaggers–the Uppity Way!!

As you all can kind of figure out, I’m up to my eyes in work dealing with school and I haven’t done a serious blog in a minute. I’m running left and right playing to services on campus and trying to squeeze in classes and schoolwork that I really don’t care about for the […]

The Obamas’ Search For a Spiritual Home

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 […]

The Public Intellectual Strikes Again

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 […]

Random Uppity Negro Quote of the Day

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 […]

Another Lesson I Learned from Chris Brown and Rihanna

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 […]

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