Uptown Notes

Some of you may know I recently went to see the Scottsboro Boys (musical) at the Vineyard Theatre here in [...]

“Fire Toure!” is a call being made from many corners these days, but I’m not sure I can go that [...]

“Traditionally, in American society, it is the members of the oppressed, objectified groups who are expected to stretch out and [...]

Today’s BHC (Black History-Contemporary) speaks to the position of Women, leadership, and racial uplift. Undoutedbly we are accustomed to hearing Black HIStory but there [...]

A year ago, I began a series on Kwanzaa, this year I will finish it (thanks to all who remember [...]

A year ago, I did a tribute post to the late Fred Hampton on Uptownnotes.com and one year later I [...]

An video excerpt of a speech from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr which deals with Black self-determination and Black Self-Love, likely from a 1967 or 1968 speech.

“Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched, -criticism of writers by readers, of government by [...]

We remain in a moment where people are beginning to realize that the election of Barack Obama does not mean a Black political agenda, one in which race is central, will continue to be pushed into the public sphere. So the question becomes, who advances the concerns of the faces at the bottom of the well?

Yesterday, at the age of 94, the unparalleled historian of the African-American experience John Hope Franklin passed away into the [...]