Uptown Notes

As you may know, I support gay marriage (yes, it is a civil rights issue.) As you may also know, [...]

So you all know that I’m a hater of Drake (here’s a partial explanation offered by Marc Lamont Hill), nothing [...]

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

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?

The term racial profiling has been part of my vocabulary and reality for nearly 15 years now, but it shouldn’t [...]

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

On Monday night, Tavis Smiley’s convening “We Count! The Black Agenda is the American Agenda” aired on CSpan. What? You [...]

This morning I woke to #RIPBIGPUN as a trending topic on twitter and was conflicted about bigging up Pun. Pun [...]

And one of them is not the use of the word Negro which has BEEN appearing, including on the 2000 [...]

This is my reflection on Imani: Faith… Faith is often thought of in a religious and spiritual way. Having grown [...]