Uptown Notes

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

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

I thoroughly enjoyed New Muslim Cool for its careful treatment of Hamza who beautifully embodies two of the most powerful social forces of the past 30 years: Hip-Hop and Islam. As a child of Hip-Hop and an admirer of Islam, I was pleased to see that the “new muslim cool” may just be the maturation of the old muslim cool.

The recent death of Chris Jones, attributed to a gang in suburbia has sparked more hysteria about the violence, gangs, and most importantly race without mentioning race.

The questions return, this time I’m talking about TV because I don’t feel like talking about books or the news

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 [...]