Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD

White supremacist depictions of Black women erase an entire legacy of the Black struggle. What American expected Black women to send the unconscionable to Washington to join in what is already an unconscionable cesspool? By contrast, over 63% of white females in Alabama couldn’t imagine Black women getting in the way of sending the patriarch to Washington DC.

For me, the profound Age of Anxiety, Bernstein’s second symphony, linking poetry to music, music to poetry, is a response to the perpetuation of the irrational and the inhumane of the 20th Century.

Displays of books approved of by a community of white librarians and educators for Black History Month doesn’t chip away at those invisible walls barring the exclusion of Black people. It’s not in the books; it’s in the mindset of those who yield power.