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Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

PhD

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has a Doctorate in Modern American Literature/Cultural Theory. Click here to contact Dr. Daniels.

257 pieces

Commentary

Rosa Luxemburg: Interview with Luxemburg Scholar and Editor, Peter Hudis

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Thanks to capitalism, we are not encouraged to learn from those who really honored and loved this Earth and respected all living forms on it.

Meanwhile, the preparations go on, the dream-like rituals are rehearsed, and the whole earth is being set up as an altar for a brunt offering, a…

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Trayvon Martin – The Verdict: The US Empire is Always Morally Right!

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

How do you attempt to forget and erase forever those charred bodies at the picnics on a Sunday afternoon after church services?

The boy with the bag of Skittles in his hands is guilty again. It would seem that carrying a bag of Skittles or a cell phone…

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Rosa Luxemburg: Letter Writing and the Road to Freedom

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

The decision to be free is the decision to reject the injustice and inequality, the violence, of those bent on expanding global franchises of the enslaved.

She was born in Poland, lived in Germany. She dedicated her life to social revolution, right up to the day at the beginning of 1919 when…

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In the Name of Your Children: Women and Tyranny

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Few have analyzed the contributions of women to the proliferation of tyranny.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. - Plato I am just as…

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Edward Snowden: Martin Luther King Would Be Proud!

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

We should recognize the pattern of tyranny in the attempt by those supposedly representing justice to vilify (and thus justify) the murder of a 14-year-old Black boy and the prosecution of 22-year-old white whistleblower.

Thomas Jefferson wrote, ‘I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man.’ To the conformist…

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‘The Banality of Evil’: Conciliation in the Face of Terrorism

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

How can one speak of conciliation and healing when trust in the legal and social contracts, in one’s fellow human being, no longer exist?

...American self-evasion...is all that this country has as history... - James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work When an event places the most extreme demands on us,…

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Assata Shakur’s Shining Light

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires.

Assata Shakur, aka JoAnne Chesimard: “I Saw Your Light/And It Was Shining” The FBI's systematic surveillance of and attacks on Black groups and individuals were orchestrated…

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“Hatred Begets Hatred, and Terrorism Begets Terrorism”

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Before the fascists and the communists, there was the United States and Manifest Destiny.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright had it right! His sermons spoke truthfully about the United States and its past and current engagement with terrorism. State-sponsored terrorism was…

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