Uptown Notes

For all my folks who remember Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out on Nintendo and for those of use who watched “Epic Beard [...]

I’ve been running around so much for the past week I forgot to post my reaction to the NAACP Image [...]

A few days ago, my talk at the 143rd Morehouse Founder’s Day Symposium went up on the web. The talk [...]

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 [...]

1) So you watched Pants on the Ground and laughed. Did you notice that General Larry Platt had on a [...]

hat tip to @AroundHarlem

“History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is [...]

Note: This is a Partner Post to Haiti in Context: Voices. Please check out both. They represent some of the [...]

I write this post with a heavy heart for the people of Haiti and its Diaspora. As you likely well know by now Port-au-Prince, the nation’s capital was hit with a 7.0 earthquake and many sizable aftershocks. Given that Haiti is the most impoverished nation in the Western Hemisphere, the consequences of this “natural disaster” are far beyond what many of us can conceive. I see this as a time for us to join in support in spiritual, emotional, physical and economic ways. I’ve outlined some ways for you to help us do this.

On Tuesday, the New York Times published a story entitled “As Population Shifts in Harlem, Blacks Lose Their Majority.” The [...]