March 18, 2010 · View Comments
Some of you may know I recently went to see the Scottsboro Boys (musical) at the Vineyard Theatre here in [...]
March 10, 2010 · View Comments
“Fire Toure!” is a call being made from many corners these days, but I’m not sure I can go that [...]
February 18, 2010 · View Comments
“Traditionally, in American society, it is the members of the oppressed, objectified groups who are expected to stretch out and [...]
February 2, 2010 · View Comments
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 [...]
December 26, 2009 · View Comments
A year ago, I began a series on Kwanzaa, this year I will finish it (thanks to all who remember [...]
December 4, 2009 · View Comments
A year ago, I did a tribute post to the late Fred Hampton on Uptownnotes.com and one year later I [...]
October 5, 2009 · View Comments
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.
September 17, 2009 · View Comments
“Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched, -criticism of writers by readers, of government by [...]
June 18, 2009 · View Comments
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?
March 26, 2009 · View Comments
Yesterday, at the age of 94, the unparalleled historian of the African-American experience John Hope Franklin passed away into the [...]