Mainstream Media Gets It Wrong Again: The Black Church in American Culture

On Wednesday, October 20, CNN.com posted a news article entitled “Black preachers who ‘whoop’ — minstrel or ministers?” that amongst the black churchy folk was a subject of tweets and Facebook status updates; many went so far as to link the news story to their Facebook pages engendering comments aptly defining the “whoop” (pronounced “hoop”) […]

Why The Democrats Should Win, But Probably Won’t

The older I get the more disillusioned I become with politics. Of course I’m all for third parties and their candidates, but this time, I don’t feel comfortable voting for one knowing that it could possibly mean that the Democrats wouldn’t control the Congress for the next two years. But, I’ve always said that […]

Tolerance and Acceptance Goes Both Ways: A Response to “The Mean Girls of Morehouse College”

It’s hard being in the minority. It’s hard being the only black person in a classroom or the workplace. It’s hard being the only woman on a board of directors or sitting on a pulpit rostrum. This is because our societal psychology dictates that we fall back on stereotypical extrapolation to understand people: the only […]

“Don’t Talk About My Mama!” and Other Problems With Black Intellectual Rhetoric

We’ve all had that moment when we realize that a conversation somehow strayed down a rabbit-hole and turned into a debate, and that debate got intense and turned into an argument. Somewhere deep down inside you were maintaining your cool when all of a sudden the other Negro made it personal and said something about […]

No Country for Rahm Emanuel and Other Potential Candidates for the Mayor of Chicago

Honestly, for about 25 seconds of my life I saw myself as the youngest elected mayor of the City of Chicago once I saw the first tweet that Hizzoner Richard M. Daley would not be seeking a seventh term in office. And then I figured if nothing else, this blog was enough to keep me […]

UNN.com Throwback Week — Revisiting the Field Negro and the House Negro

This is a post that I pulled from August 2009, barely 8 months into Obama’s new presidency, after a summer doing an internship in Jacksonville, Florida and about to enter my final year of graduate school. Sit back and enjoy, and leave a comment. JLL Recently as we’ve decided to talk a bit more candidly […]

UNN.com Throwback Week — Why I’m Against The 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago?

I guess with the Today Show doing a piece on Chicago’s Olympic bid for the 2016 Summer Games earlier this week, it solidified that the rest of the country was aware of the city’s bid. And I guess it was the beginning of the country’s rallying cry to the International Olympic Committee for the Games […]

UNN.com Throwback Week — Being Black and Dealing With Postcolonialism in a Postmodern World

Editors note: This is probably going to be one of my longer posts, maybe not, depends on how quickly I work it out. But if I go over my standard 1,500 characters so be it. So go get get the tea, coffee or print this bad boy out because I’m here until it’s done. A […]

UNN.com Throwback Week — The Dominant Subordinate Culture

I reached way back for this Throwback Week post. I was doing an internship in the northwest suburbs of Washington, DC during the summer of 2008 and its experiences certainly gave me a different perspective; a different worldview. This post was a direct result of that summer 2008 experience. I believe its content is still […]

And The Walls Come Tumba’ling Down: The Religious Politics of Eddie Long

Hot off the press from tonight, the latest in news to affect the institutional Black Church, both old and new, has been the lawsuit against Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church of Lithonia, Georgia. This seems to be yet another brick chipped away in already bruised and battered institutional Black Church. […]

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