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The New Face of Hip Hop
Sometime last week, while I was mid crisi mode about exams and what not, Chicago born rapper Common dropped a quote to linking President-elect Barack Obama to the hip hop […]
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Upon Becoming a Post-Graduate Negro
Hello to all you members of the Uppity Negro Network!! I’d like to invite the Network on a journey into the trials and tribulations of a third-year grad student who’s […]
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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 […]
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Dealing with Negro Nonsense and Barbershop Knowledge
I need to vent. Be aware, I’ve recently been watching Spike Lee Joints: “School Daze,” “Bamboozled,” and just this weekend “When The Levees Broke” which still had me fighting back […]
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The End of The Age
A couple of weeks ago, one of my professors had us read the “Mini-Apocalypse” in the biblical scriptures found in the Gospel of Matthew 24:3-8 As Jesus was sitting on […]
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Which Comes First: Religion or Citizenship?
It’s kind of like the Civil War where brothers fought across the Mason-Dixon line. I don’t want to stain my faith. I don’t want to stain my fellow Muslims and […]
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Which Comes First: Religion or Citizenship, Pt. II
As I was writing the first post, I thought about the fact that there really is a segment of Christianity in this country that truly feels that politics and religion […]
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Yes, I Watched the FAMU Sex Tape
Okay, I watched the FAMU Sex Tape. I know I was supposed to give a response to Eddie Glaude’s article about the death of the Black Church, but this just […]
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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 […]
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Book Review of “Democracy in Black” by Eddie Glaude, Jr.
One of the better things that has happened to me in the last year or so is that I have been more intentional about carving out time to cultivate my independent reading habit. Sure, everyone says they...
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