by Lee A. Daniels George Curry Media Columnist I was catching up recently on my reading about the newest discoveries and speculations about the dinosaurs, and I thought about Black History Month. And then in late January, I read with fascination of the intensifying speculation about “Planet X” – a giant, Jupiter-sized planet, billions of […]
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White Anger is the New Black
by Lee A. Daniels George Curry Media Columnist Have you heard? Apparently large numbers of American adults are “angry” about their own circumstances and about where they think the country is headed. For months, numerous politicians, pollsters, and pundits have touted this anger as an important factor in the line-up of who supports who in […]
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Criminalizing Black Protest – and Black People
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Is #BlackLivesMatter a criminal organization that advocates attacks on and murder of White police officers? That’s the snake-oil pitch the conservative echo chamber is making these days – even as news accounts every week bring new proof that neither Black law-abiding citizens nor, frankly, Black criminals, nor anyone else […]
Trump’s Trump Card: The Conservative Mob
by Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The fate of the Republican Party’s presidential sweepstakes at the moment is being controlled by two political Frankensteins – both of them of the GOP’s own creation. One, of course, is Donald Trump, the wealthy demagogue who is leading the crowded GOP primary field precisely because he doesn’t have […]
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GOP’s Raging Intra-Party War
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The August 6th Fox-News-sponsored, two-tiered debate of the GOP presidential primary candidates has shown anew the Republican Party’s continuing to explore different ways a political party can self-destruct. Two developments of last week have underscored that the GOP’s raging intra-party war and identity crisis is more serious than ever. […]
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Emanuel AME and the Buoyancy of Hope
By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist June 26, 2015 Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist Rev. Clementa Pinckney and his fellow congregants of Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. gathered as usual in the historic edifice June 17 for their Wednesday evening prayer service. They came, as always, to refresh […]
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The Waco Biker Riot and the Lexicon of Racism
By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist June 5, 2015 Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist Question: When men (and a few women) belonging to gangs known to law enforcement agencies for criminal behavior explode in a rampage – using guns, knives, clubs, and chains in trying to kill each other, and police officers, […]
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Seeing and Not Seeing Our Racial Reality
By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist May 22, 2015 Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist “Americans don’t want to imagine that our racist history is actually an ongoing racist reality. We like to look at racism as a thing that has gotten better (if not gone away completely) and that the way black […]
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The ‘Real’ Dream Speech
By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist January 16, 2015 Lee A. Daniels “I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of ‘interposition’ and ‘nullification’ – one day right there in Alabama little Black boys and Black […]