Uptown Notes

Recently, a picture has been floating around the Internet of a children’s book called “The Night Dad Went to Jail: […]

Summer is finally here! I can remember sitting in my desk in school looking out the window wondering when I […]

Just last week, the United States celebrated the 58th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision which made segregation in […]

Sixty four schools will likely close in Philadelphia. New York is aiming at closing forty seven schools this year, down from […]

A few days before Christmas 2011, Nike re-released the Concord Jordans to wild fanfare. As a rash of people lined […]

Marc Lamont Hill, Susan L. Taylor, Talib Kweli, Kephra Burns, and April R. Silver invite you to a benefit celebration […]

Detroit is a microcosm of Black America. I believe if you cannot love Detroit, you cannot fully love Black people. The Detroit Metropolitan area represents the best and the worst that Black folks in this country have to offer. Detroit is under intense scrutiny as of late and the flashing lights of attention may have served to take the life of seven year old Aiyana Jones as a TV crew filmed a home-raid by the Detroit SWAT. With all the fascination with Detroit around the nation we get the problems of the city beamed into our homes via satellite, but it makes me wonder, is there more there than what we normally see?

Not too long ago, I had a chance to discuss the question of a Black Agenda and President Obama with […]

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

There is a quiet storm brewing in American schools. While the nation is keeping close watch on health care reform […]