Uptown Notes

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

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

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

Recently, I had the pleasure of appearing on “Our World with Black Enterprise” hosted by Marc Lamont Hill. The show […]

This week “Waiting for Superman” premiered nationally and it has reignited the conversation on the United States’ failing schools. The […]

Yesterday, protests at Ground Zero continued to gain international attention. What’s at issue is a figment of the American public’s imagination: the ground zero mosque. Herds of “well-intentioned” Americans flooded lower manhattan to chant down the construction of what they are calling a ground zero mosque, but what really is an Islamic community center. This case is a powerful lesson in framing, which I was first introduced to by the George Lakoff but you and I experience constantly. If we want to make sure The Community Center at Park 51 is built, we’ve got to re-frame the conversation, or else the Islamophobes have won!

On next Monday the 17th at 7:30 pm there will be a panel on Black Male Privilege at the Brecht […]

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

On Tuesday, the New York Times published a story entitled “As Population Shifts in Harlem, Blacks Lose Their Majority.” The […]

This is my reflection on the principle of Ujamaa – Cooperative Economics… The title of the post is a variation […]