From The Uppity Negro Network, Living In Liminality, The Typewriter Series Presents: “To Serve This Present Age: The Black Church and Post-Modernity”

I’m doing a series, just about three or four, might be five, can’t remember, blog posts that I had actually typewritten on a Royal Typewriter Futura. These are my thoughts during that fateful period this past summer while I was on my internship and was without my laptop for about three FULL weeks. I had […]

Speaking Truths That Empower

Most liberals are familiar with the phrase “[speak] truth to power” which I always loosely associated with social justice messages, particularly those from the pulpit. But, when pressed on the issue, I wasn’t able to give a cogent definition of what the “truth” was and let alone what the “power” was. So when I heard […]

Beware The Spirit Killers: Bridging the Gap Between The Elders and the Joshua Generation

Given my current line of work, I interact often with youth. Last week was definitely the case seeing as how I worked in the morning with a bunch of nine and ten year olds and in the evening I worked heavily with a middle school/junior high school bunch of school aged children. Thank God I […]

This Is Why Folks Don’t Take Church Seriously Pt. II: The Shout or Praise Breaks

Well, this really isn’t a solely religious blog, but as most of my close followers know, religion is very much a part of a my life. I mean, I would love to have a blog about this Tavis Smiley town hall I heard that aired on TvOne over the weekend, but I guess you’ll have to […]

Why Do I Have To Cross This River?

The title comes from a scene in the Spike Lee movie Miracle at St. Anna, his WWII adaptation of James McBride’s novel. As the company was crossing the Serchio river into enemy territory, Chocolate Giant, Pvt. 1st Class Train asks the timid question “Why do we have to cross this river?” This past weekend, as my […]

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 […]

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 […]

Happy New Year; UNN Celebrates the Last Day of Kwanzaa, Imani

Faith has always been that elusive “unseen” component of the Christian movement. It has this supernatural quality that makes Christianity possible. Faith is the unspoken hope that makes the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ a reality and makes Scientology look as stupid as Santa Claus to grown people about over the age or […]

UNN Celebrates the First Day of Kwanzaa

In the spirit of uppity Negroness I just want to state that a good uppity Negro celebrates Kwanzaa because it is a cultural holiday that celebrates our African Americanness. It is a uniquely African American holiday that was founded in 1966 by Malauna Karenga. Now, I thought it was interesting that a well-respected blogger who’s […]

A Challenge to the Black Blogosphere; When the Right Becomes Wrong

For my faithful readers, you all know that I’ve been on my anti-religion kick lately. Or rather, my “let’s reshape religion as we know it” kick. I went out with Soul Jonz for lunch today, me and him talked about some of the challenges of the Black Blogosphere. One of the main challenges he quipped […]

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