Uptown Notes

In an age when grassroots Black leadership has become distilled, sanitized, and all too often co-opted, we are often left [...]

Tune your radio into NPR … okay well maybe you don’t have a radio, in that case, check out NPR.org. [...]

Check out the article by Jason Fink in AM New York (as one of my friends politely or rudely called [...]

A declaration and dedication to Michelle Obama by Celli Pitt “Sisters and Brothers, the true gift of this election is validation and vindication of Black Womanhood!!
Everyone take note:

Barack has done himself and us a great service by marrying Michelle Obama.
Thank you Michelle for being strong and not diluting your strength.
Thank you Michelle for being highly intelligent and not dumbing down yourself.
Thank you for not starving yourself and not lipo’ing your curves away to fit “standards” that are not authentically yours.
Thank you Michelle for helping to make a great Man Greater.
Thank you Michelle for showing us that intelligence is the True Sexy– bling and oiled biceps can’t compete!
Thank you Michelle for speaking your mind and not allowing that ugly “bitch/angry black woman” label to fertilize itself– thanks for killing it on the vine.” Read the whole post for more!

This weekend, October 17th-19th City College hosts the first CUNY Social Forum. Come out and have your voice heard and develop plans to make CUNY the university system that it was meant to be.

Bryron Hurt has quickly become one of my favorite documentary makers. I was first introduced to his work by Hip-Hop: [...]

No I don’t mean are you mad, I meant do you have a lot of salt in your body. Last [...]

so I could give CNN Black in America four thumbs down!!!Really too disgusted to comment on it, but if you [...]

So I was traveling this past week and didn’t get a chance to hit you with anything new. But now [...]

A very peculiar thing happened last week, Willie Randolph went from bad manager, to bad guy in the eyes of [...]