Every once in a while I pose a question on Twitter and actually get some responses. Today was one of those days. I visited fellow blogger Average Bro’s website and I saw his story on the recent news that Tyler Perry raked in the most money in Hollywood for a year between 2010 and 2011, […]
Read more "Coonery or Comedy: What’s the Difference? A Case Study of Tyler Perry"Seeing as how I have a “day job” now, I’ve noticed my posts have gotten farther and farther between–monthly almost. But nonetheless, I’m still here in the blogosphere and you can check out my comments on some other famous blogs that I visit pretty regularly. That being said a lot has happened in the month […]
Read more "Uppity Updates"This following sermonette was brought about by a story I stumbled across on the web about a mother in Chicago receiving the high school diploma of her slain son. Her son was killed on the sidewalk after walking up to a group of three young men. No arrests have been made. I read the story […]
Read more "The Death of Life"Black America paid close attention last fall when New Birth Missionary Baptist Church pastor Bishop Eddie Long was accused of sexual impropriety and misconduct. Four young men were launching a civil case against Long for misconduct during their teenage years under the tutelage of Long as members of New Birth. Suddenly picture text messages surfaced […]
Read more "For Black Religious Intellectuals Who Considered Suicide When The Foolishness Was Too Much"It would have been nice if Dr. Cornel West never made the personal comments on Obama, but it was an interview by Chris Hedges of Truthdig.com entitled “The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic” and questions were asked to which West answered. It does seem petty on West’s part, but honestly, we all have an outsiders view […]
Read more "The Rage of Black Academia: Melissa Harris-Perry and Cornel West, A Collegiate Conundrum"This was a post I had been planning to write for some time after some of the major natural disasters we had seen in the news. It probably began around the Haitian earthquake, but I’m sure my mind was more focused on the horrendous theology of Pat Robertson and his comments surrounding a deal with […]
Read more "The Unnatural Politics and Religion of Natural Disasters"Keep it uppity and keep it truthfully radical, JLL
Read more "Donald Trump Asks to see Jesus’ Birth Certificate and Why He is a Racist"Mourners file into New Mount St. Nevermind Missionary Baptist Church to funeralize Black Intelligentsia. The public had endured a long painful and debilitating disease close to twenty years. Maybe more. The mourners pack into the church on a hot, sultry day and even with the air conditioning on full blast, it does nothing for the […]
Read more "A Requiem for Black Intelligentsia"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 […]
Read more "The Strange Occurrence of the Uppity Negro and the Uncle Tom: Jalen Rose and Grant Hill"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 […]
Read more "Corporal Punishment and the Pornography of Violence: An Armchair Case Study of St. Augustine Catholic School"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 