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We are pleased to announce four new members of the BlackCommentator.com Editorial
Board. Listed in alphabetical order by last name, they are:
Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has been a writer,
for over thirty years, of commentary, resistance criticism and
cultural theory, and short stories with a Marxist sensibility
to the impact of cultural narrative violence and its antithesis,
resistance narratives. With entrenched dedication to justice
and equality, she has served as a coordinator of student and
community resistance projects that encourage the Black Feminist
idea of an equalitarian community and facilitator of student-teacher
communities behind the walls of academia for the last twenty
years. Dr. Daniels holds a PhD in Modern American Literatures,
with a specialty in Cultural Theory (race, gender, class narratives)
from Loyola University, Chicago. Click
here to contact Dr. Daniels.
David A. Love, JD is a lawyer and prisoners’ rights
advocate based in Philadelphia, and a contributor to the Progressive
Media Project, McClatchy-Tribune
News Service and In These Times. Additionally,
he contributed to the book, States
of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons (St.
Martin's Press, 2000). Love, a former Amnesty International
UK spokesperson, organized the first national police brutality
conference as a staff member with the Center for Constitutional
Rights, and served as a law clerk to two Black federal judges. His
blog is davidalove.com.Click
here to contact Mr. Love.
The ReverendIrene Monroe is
a religion columnist, theologian, and public speaker. A native
of Brooklyn, Rev. Monroe is a graduate from Wellesley College
and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, and served
as a pastor at an African-American church before coming to Harvard
Divinity School for her doctorate as a Ford Fellow. Reverend
Monroe’s “Let Your Light Shine Like a Rainbow 365
Days a Year - Meditations on Bible Prayers" will be out
in June, 2008. As an African American feminist theologian, she
speaks for a sector of society that is frequently invisible.
Her website is irenemonroe.com. Click
here to contact the Rev. Monroe.
Larry Pinkney is a veteran of the
Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the
Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the
only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political
rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights. For more about Larry Pinkney
see the book, Saying
No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker by
William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. Click
here to contact Mr. Pinkney.
These four new BC Editorial
Board members join 20 other African Americans who are dedicated
activists, thinkers
and writers. Board members are an integral part of the development
of the editorial content and direction of BlackCommentator.com. In
return, membership on the BC Editorial Board
offers these talented African American Activists an opportunity
for their articulate and profound voices to reach an expanded
audience.
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