I guess I’m like Jonathan L. Walton, who mentions on his blog that every once in a while he stumbles upon “great moments in Gospel [music] history” that act as much needed breaks from research. I was emailed the following clip on Facebook, but I opened it in the midst of a research break at […]
Read more "Study Break"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 […]
Read more "The Changing Image of the New Black Male: College Hill, South Beach"I’ve always talked about it, and I finally got around to posting something. But that’s me on the organ and some of my other friends toward the end of rehearsal. We have a group on campus known as the Ecumenical Voices of Praise and we sing for the random services on campus week to week. […]
Read more "The Uppity Negro In Church…"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"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"This was a subject I had been thinking about doing for a while, but blogging is really a task, and I’d much rather sit around and watch the television in my absolute free time–which really for the most part is non-existent, I just make what I have free. So, I’ve been rather remiss getting around […]
Read more "Finding Your Wheelhouse"Just letting the saints know I just bought and iPod Touch. I was informed through email yesterday that I was “a millennial” –just like that and I immediately felt convicted. I’m a musician and have been playing the piano my whole life. I don’t listen to music like that, and I most certainly don’t own […]
Read more "The Uppity Negro Has a Come-up"First some housekeeping stuff: I received two books to review and I’ve been quite remiss in doing so. To the publicists of these books, if you’re reading this blog, I’ve not forgotten about you. I’ve just been swamped with work–I am in grad school. ********************************* Text derives from the Latin textus (a tissue), which is in turn derived […]
Read more "The State of the Black Union and Other Uppity Negroness"It’s my understanding that the whole thing started over a text message. Back in the day this would have been the mysterious “little black book” or a random slip of paper that fell out of a pocket at an inopportune time with seven random digits with a dash between two of them–a phone number. […]
Read more "Things I Learned from Chris Brown and Rihanna"This was an interesting month for me. It was neatly situated into four compact weeks that were easily to know dates if you remembered your multiples of seven. There wasn’t a leap year. This year wasn’t marked by the campaign seasons, beginning back in February 2007 with Obama announcing his candidacy two years ago. […]
Read more "Good Bye to February"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 