Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

Obama’s mantra, “change,” was echoed by Clinton’s oh, yeah – “change.” Yeah, that’s it. And good number of other folks went to bed, smiling. Change. But the corporations love Obama too. Clinton has more “experience” dealing with the corps, but they can love the new guy on the block who doesn’t nag them (at least…

Sen. Feinstein, Rep. Harman, and others, diligently working to pass Homegrown Terrorist legislation, receive a nod from House Speaker Pelosi who, in turn, winks at King George and Darth Vader. The people and their leaders know prosecution under Homeland Security is yet another indication that COINTELPRO continues for them, and no cameras will capture this…

Keep in mind that, as Ron Jacobs in The Case of the San Francisco 8 reports, the “federal court ruled in 1974 that both San Francisco and New Orleans police had engaged in torture to extract a confession (see the Legacy of Torture video), and a San Francisco judge dismissed charges against three men in…

“This case against eight former Panthers and Panther supporters charged with the murder of a San Francisco policeman in 1971 was thrown out of court in 1975 because the evidence used by the prosecution was obtained by torture,” writes Jacobs. Of course, Jacobs injects, if “the purpose of torture is something other than the procurement…

Seventy-five percent of the American population opposes the kingdom of corporatization and militarization King George and Darth Vader have established here and around the world, yet they are frozen in the state of fear. As a result, even some of these seventy-five percent of the American public opposed to this current administration, still believe that,…

I believe the sponsors and supporters of the Youth PROMISE Act want to see solutions to the imprisonment of our children. But I have to ask: Is there an advantage for law enforcement and juvenile courts to work to save the lives of our children? That is, why would the police and courts want to…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has been a writer, for over thirty years of commentary, resistance criticism and cultural theory, and short stories with a Marxist sensibility to the impact of cultural narrative violence and its antithesis, resistance narratives. With entrenched dedication to justice and equality, she has served as a coordinator…

That was forty-four years old. It is not fire hoses our children face, but they do face unfair punishment in the public schools and longer sentences for non-violent crimes. Our children face poverty and unemployment. Despite voting rights (slowly eroding away with the violent practice of caging and plain thievery of votes) and hate crime…

Our Ancestors — those Africans kidnapped, purchased, shipped, and enslaved in the Americas, who permitted this country, in particular, to flex its industrial muscles. The labor, ingenuity, creativity, suffering, and death of my ancestors contributed greatly to the imperialist development of this nation. Four hundred years of people unfree, people exploited, brutalized, raped, lynched —…