Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the…

It’s Hamas and it’s the zealous well-armed Israeli military now that see all Palestinian men as Hamas and all the women and children as allied with them. Hamas is the hated people and the hated people are Hamas. The hated people voted for Hamas. Together, they are among the “wretched of the Earth.” They are…

-Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism You have heard by now the good news: The tireless activist Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, Michigan and “the only Preacher in the history of mankind, who was thrown into prison for Quoting the Bible” (Rev. Pinkney), will spend the holidays at home! For…

While I was thinking about writing this article, I thought about the murder manufactured to appear as a “self-inflected death” (suicide) in the middle of Michael Clayton. In the U.S. where billions are handed off to corporate cutthroats, the homeless (many of whom are unemployed workers and Iraq vets) are handed a death sentence. This…

We need to remember that we are bastards and forget that we’re obedient citizens. Indeed, that our absolute loyalty lies in the disobedience to power and in our identification with poor. For every daydream of the few, there are nights of nightmares for the many. When our expectations become low and when we learn the…

PBS’s Frontline presents a documentary titled War Briefing. An “expert” on the Afghanistan war states that the Taliban could be won over to “our side,” its sounds natural to the ear. Some few Taliban, good Taliban will remain in place as leaders to lord over villages of the poor and women with impunity. It will…

– James Baldwin, Nothing Personal. History as record embraces the monuments, documents, and symbols which provide such knowledge as we have or can find respecting past actuality. But it is history as thought, not as actuality, record, or specific knowledge, that is really meant when the term history is used in its widest and most…

November 3, 2008 The Obama blues dominate the front yards of Black and white homes and apartment buildings. Some yards have several Obama blues for emphasis. In the parking space shared by Dunkin Donuts, Burger King, and KFC, the pigeons have been struggling to maintain the space where they normally search for food left out…

– Martin Espada “In the Republic of Poetry” If Harriet Tubman were elected president of the United States, the Underground Railroad would become a modern-day institution in which the “wretched of the earth” here in the U.S. would be gathered together to rise from beneath the heels of their enslavers. These citizens would form local…