#MeToo: Exiting the Darkness of the Abusers of Power
“At all times it has also been profitable to deny or suppress such knowledge…You already know that. So do
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Author: Dr. Lenore Daniels
This Isn’t Kafkaesque. It’s the Moment Americans Created.
It seems Kafka has come to America. It must be Kafka, for who else could craft such a spectacle of
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Hollywood’s Solaris: #OscarsSoWhite Today, and #OscarsSoWhite in the ‘Future”
‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.’ William Shakespeare, Julius Ceasar A generation or two
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America, Look in Your Mirror!
‘A national culture is the whole body of efforts made by a people in the sphere of thought to describe,
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Why Frantz Fanon Matters in the Struggle Against Racism
I speak from my standpoint—from where I live and interact with the world. I live in a senior complex, a
Read moreA Story for Our Times: Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition
William Miller, Wellington’s only Black doctor, and Mr. Watson, the town’s Black lawyer, are talking about the innocent Black man
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The Black Lives Matter Movement: Channeling James Baldwin, “My Dungeon Shook”
A timely return to James Baldwin’s “The Dungeon Shook,” from The Fire Next Time: Your face is like the face
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No Indictment of Darren Wilson: Black Lives Still Don’t Matter in the U.S.
” Evil doers” can be killed. Bombed to hell and back. Justifiably. ” Demons” can be shot down. Evaporated. Justifiably.
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Book Review: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
This book is not for everyone. I have a specific audience in mind—people who care deeply about racial justice but
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No Consumer‘s Servitude left behind- Wal-Mart’s Successful Community Organizing
… [From this] contradiction arises the strange paradox that the poverty for the worker must be perpetual, in order to
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