Uptown Notes

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

I’ve recently penned a piece for Centric’s new Culture List blog on the Pants on the Ground video. While the [...]

I love hip-hop, love some reggaetón too, I love the youth, but I’m pretty sure I don’t love this!
How many [...]

As 2009 draws to a close, let us not forget that we celebrated two cultural phenomena: 20th anniversary of Do [...]

It’s been a minute since I dropped a Friday Funny on ya’ll, probably because I’ve been traveling the Diaspora for [...]

Times are tough but thankfully the iphone is providing some relief. Here’s a brotha who takes Falling Down to a [...]

So one of the problems with being a sociologist of race and offering public commentary is it sometimes creates the [...]

We here at Uptown Notes are very much in accord with the African belief of respecting one’s elders and are [...]

Finally a skit on Gates that made me laugh.

Hat tip to ZM

So there are few things I find more ridiculous than Jeremih’s (where the hell did the “a” in his name [...]