Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

I don’t remember the entertainment that day. At successive Black Expos I would see Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder. One time, the Jackson Five would share the backstage with us, the Operation Breadbasket Choir, for about three minutes. But on this first day, I remember the words spoken with such conviction by activist ministers, including…

Bodies left to float in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans for days while the world watched on. The attempt to expel from the narrative of innocence the very “dirty” image of nooses hung on a tree with whitewashing words: “teenage pranks.” By banning the reading of Beloved, are the censors suggesting that the rape…

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Black literature courses, in particular, became sites of fierce counter resistance on the part of white students, many of whom demanded to be allowed to disassociate the oppression (or that ugly feeling they felt within before they turned away from the texts or the Black teacher reading passages) and focus, instead, on a temporary and…

“…If anything I do, in the way of writing novels or whatever I write, isn’t about the village or the community or about you, then it isn’t about anything. I am not interested in indulging myself in some private exercise of my imagination…which is to say yes, the work must be political…” – Toni Morrison…

The current issue is always free to everyone “In the thirteen years preceding Reaganomics, income inequality in the United States was shrinking. Social welfare programs, unions, labor laws, anti-discrimination laws and the like were raising the wealth of the lower income population, and progressive tax structures were redistributing wealth from the upper income brackets down,”…

“This is no time to back down…This fight to end the war isn’t something that we can just put off or kick down the road…Now is the time to be pulling out all the stops to end the war.” This was the Senator from Wisconsin, Russ Feingold in May 2007 writing on the Daily Kos…

The impeachment crisis of 1998 was serious! President William Clinton engaged in oral sex with Monica Lewinsky – not in 1998 but sometime after he took office. In September, 1998, after Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr had been conducting a Grand Jury on the issue for what seemed ages, he filed a report with Congress. For…