The last seven days has been one of a news reporters–or bloggers–dream. From President Barack Obama’s speech to the school kids of America on their first day, to his health care speech with South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson, to Kanye West acting a fool last night and Serena Williams meltdown. First, it wasn’t until last […]
Read more "This Week In Review….UNN News Briefs"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 […]
Read more "From The Uppity Negro Network, Living In Liminality, The Typewriter Series Presents: “To Serve This Present Age: The Black Church and Post-Modernity”"Recently as we’ve decided to talk a bit more candidly and intelligently about race in our own community, I’ve heard a slightly different take on the whole “light skinned” vs. “dark skinned” debate, or in other words, the whole field Negro versus house Negro dichotomy. I had approached this topic back in May 2008 referring […]
Read more "Revisiting the Field Negro and the House Negro"“Any hair is good hair as long it covers my head.” Mama Uppity That’s a scene from the cult classic Spike Lee Joint “School Daze” as Lee grapples with the issues of young, at the time Afro-Americans who were in college. The movie was set at the fictional Mission College in some remote Alabama or […]
Read more "Good and Bad, See If I Care, Good and Bad Hair"Well, I lied. I said I was going to wait until after August 16th to drop a post, but I lied. Circumstances dictated otherwise. My heart was ceremoniously grieved and broken when a couple of weeks ago Fly With Bats had posted something a new single called “Whip It Like A Slave.” And of course […]
Read more "The Emergence of the Newer Negro"I’m not going to be able to watch this year’s “Black In America, Pt. 2” with America’s favorite Soledad O’Brien. I did have the opportunity to watch it last year and like most in the black blogosphere ripped it to shreds. Most of us leveled the same charge that the two day special highlighted the […]
Read more "The New Peculiar Institution"The Riverside Church of Manhattan on the Upper West Side comes to mind when one thinks of bastions of ecclesial liberalism. And generally one calls to mind famous pastors of Henry Emerson Fosdick, William Sloane Coffin and the latest James Forbes. Sadly, I’m sure in the history of this great institutional church, Dr. Brad Braxton […]
Read more "The Danger of Diversity"In the spirit of laziness and the fact that I couldn’t think of anything else that I could really say different than what I did last summer, I’m running the post I dropped on Independence Day that I did last year. Maybe this time people’ll comment on it. JLL …as we celebrate yet another year […]
Read more "Again, on this Independence Day…"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 […]
Read more "Why I’m Against The 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago?"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 […]
Read more "Beware The Spirit Killers: Bridging the Gap Between The Elders and the Joshua Generation"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 