Uptown Notes

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

“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.

This is my reflection on the principle of Ujamaa – Cooperative Economics…
The title of the post is a variation on [...]

This is my reflection on Umoja, the first principle of Nguzo Saba of Kwanzaa…
Does it make sense that fighting could [...]

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 [...]

I am an African-American man. I am a heterosexual man. I am a middle-class man. These three statements are the [...]

Hip-Hop has been political, you just haven’t been paying it attention. My reflection on the Black August Hip-Hop Project.