Uptown Notes

I recently found myself in a conversation with three White males. As we made small talk,  one asked me, “So [...]

America has entered new territory when it comes to issues of sexual diversity: “Toleranceville.”  Never heard of it? Sure you [...]

As I climbed the subway stairs on an unusually warm and sunny Spring day, I saw the shadows of two [...]

I remember growing up and learning how to “holler” at girls. I’ll be honest, I’ve never found it particularly natural [...]

“There’s a war going on outside no man is safe from, you could run but you can’t hide forever.” These [...]

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 [...]