Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

In a nation quick to point to African Americans and Latino perpetrators of crime, it is not surprising that the number of African Americans and Latinos killed and maimed receives the color-blind treatment. It’s about sending “Americans” to establish law and order. Freedom. It is about “our troops” then. But story after story focuses on…

I can only imagine Senator Barack Obama’s handlers whispering in his ears, “Lincoln, Lincoln.” So the “rock star” of the contemporary political scene stood where the icon of presidential rock stars once stood—and Black America did not hear a damn thing. I cannot imagine Obama arriving to this spot, in the heartland of America, by…

Oprah Winfrey opens a school for girls in the town of Henley-on-Klip, South Africa. “I wanted to give this opportunity to girls who had a light so bright that not even poverty could dim that light,” Winfrey said. I recalled the collective memory of ancestors, kidnapped and forced into slavery in the Americas, and poorer…