Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

Are You Really There? Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Out of view of the telescreen, Winston pulls out his hidden diary from a drawer and wrote: Thoughtcrime does not entail death; thoughtcrime IS death. In time, he knew the diary “would be reduced to ashes and himself vapor.”…

Imitating One Another Imitating Master Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board They said, watch out for Bafana Bafana, but the South Africa team played the one game and that was it. Watch out for Ghana! Ghana played one more game after its win against the U.S. It was okay!…

El Hajj El Shabazz (Malcolm X) from a speech delivered at the London School of Economics, Feb. 11, 1965, to a meeting sponsored by the school’s Africa Society He did not murder Oscar Grant, but the young Black man lying face down on the BART station platform is dead. “My son was murdered,” Grant’s mother…

Midnight in Area Two Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board The verdict is in: Former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge, the torturer, is found guilty on all counts! But while his Black victims, the Black community in Chicago, activists, lawyers, and supporters of the victims celebrate, we must keep…

-Paulo Freire We have been treated to entertaining theater at Senate committee hearings, trivial polls by the mainstream media, and elegant assurances from President Obama the economy is recovering. The war in Afghanistan is a human rights disaster but still quite profitable. The scientists “discovery” that Afghanistan is a wash in lithium is really old…

…We surely need to stop being the minority and become part of the majority. By the year 2050, whites in the U.S. will no longer be the dominant race. “Nearly one in five Americans (19%) will be an immigrant in 2050, compared with one in eight (12%) in 2005” (Pew Report 2008). The immigrants coming…

A Comment on Unnatural Destruction Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Wherever it treads, progress and wealth follows. In place of forests, plains, and urban ruins, structures rise and people thrive. The free market brings basic goods to the masses. Corporations feed the world. New millionaires in China, India,…

Chicago: America’s Kind of Town, White Privilege and Minorities Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Many had gray, short, but uncombed hair. Others wore “Sunday-church” wigs. The students, many suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes, had little by way of former education. They were grandparents sitting among the…

-El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz I clicked to view the lecture at C-Span online. The subject is Black culture, Black culture in the FDR Era. The author of Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era, is young, an Assistant Professor at South Carolina. She’s white and the subject is…