Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

I know this. My life has a meaning. I refuse to believe that this existence, our time on Mother Earth, is meaningless. I believe that the Creator, Wakan Tanka, has shaped each of our lives for a reason. I don’t know what that reason is. Maybe I’ll never know. But you don’t have to know…

Benton Harbor, Michigan activist Rev. Edward Pinkney tells us that we are all in prison, all subject to surveillance, to arrest while innocent. In the U.S. citizens are taught to look for examples of gulags and detention without due process in China, Russia, Iran – somewhere else. In China, Russia, Iran and somewhere else, the…

Not a word from President Barack Obama, the man of CHANGE, or the newly appointed UN Special Envoy, former President Bill Clinton, man from HOPE, condemning the UN’s shooting of, as Marguerite “Ezili Danto” Laurent reports, “peaceful, unarmed protesters in Haiti” June 18, 2009. The shooting took place at the funeral for Father Jean Juste…

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the last 41 years, poor and working class Blacks have increasingly tuned out in ways unlike enslaved Blacks or Blacks during the years of the Reconstruction to the Civil Rights era. In part, the corporate media is to blame with its emphasis on ratings and profits. Sitcoms, TV personalities,…

-Paul Robeson, Here I Stand (Kindle edition) Here I Stand (regular edition) There are circles meant to maintain and to strengthen, but there are others to dismantle for they are artificial creations of misery and suffering. No doubt, the U.S. Left is in trouble. In the last 40 years, “criminal” and “terrorists” propaganda campaigns, FBI…

“I know how are it is for you to put food on your family.” “Rarely is the question asked: ‘Is our children learning?’” “I’ve been in the Bible every day since I’ve been the president.” Okay. We no longer have to listen to a U.S. President and wince. We no longer anticipate hearing the explicit…

Jackie Robinson appeared on the baseball field. Joe Louis appeared in the boxing ring, and Lana Turner came to South Africa by way of Stormy Weather, shown at the only movie theatre in the Black township. We “looked to this land with incredible admiration,” the Former Archbishop of Capetown, Desmond Tutu, told the audience on…

In Chicago, James “Hawk” Rasco decides its time to return home, to his native soil – Mississippi. Now, he was returning to Scott County with his family. Rasco’s nephew ran a nightclub – in dry Scott County. The nephew, along with other Black nightclub owners, paid the sheriff in order to sell alcohol. The sheriff…

In a world where governments operate under human rights laws, the naked child hugging the leg of a barely clad, homeless Ethiopian woman, would have a home, food, health care, school fees, and books. In a world operating under human rights laws, President Obama would have told his White House guest that he will not…