Uptown Notes

Since the introduction of the Race to the Top fund I’ve had a series of nagging concerns about what Obama [...]

“Justice for Oscar Grant!” As I sit in front of these keys I know that I could have written this [...]

With the World Cup coming to an end yesterday in South Africa, here’s my commentary on African-Americans and World Cup [...]

1) Isn’t WorldStarHipHop just the digital equivalent of BET? 2) Speaking of which, why does Riff Raff (of from G’s [...]

Recently, I penned a piece discussing the need for Black folks to join in with the fight against Arizona’s racist immigration [...]

I told ya’ll to stop using the word swagger back in 2008. See you didn’t listen, now we have the [...]

Yesterday the NYTimes ran an interesting Op-Ed piece on Charter Schools by Charles Murray entitled, “Why Charter Schools Fail the Test.” I read through it quickly and thought it to be arguing two main things: standardized tests were weak measures and that school choice was a democratic right. Sounds agreeable, right? But why was this written by Charles Murray author of the thinly veiled racist polemic The Bell Curve?

Originally published at The Atlanta Post The internet is a funny thing and Twitter is a funny place. I find [...]

Some days I’m so immersed in work and other matters that I forget to mention how amazing the students here [...]

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