By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Arizona’s Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, after nearly a week of reading the political tea leaves, vetoed a bill Feb....
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist It all seems so familiar, doesn’t it? A Black man, or woman, or child is murdered by a White...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist What could anyone who loves America find offensive about Americans singing one of the nation’s unofficial national anthems, “America...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist By the early 1970s, Black Americans could reasonably say they had emerged victorious from their long struggle with America’s...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Isn’t it time to think of the Republican Party’s quest for the presidency as haunted? That’d be a good...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hasn’t been this alive since 1968. He’s no longer that visually distant, two-dimensional figure,...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist A virus has been sweeping through the ranks of the conservative movement in recent years – and it seems...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist As this is being written, more than a million out-of-work Americans have already been pushed off the edge of...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist In case you haven’t noticed, ‘tis the season … to have another controversy illuminating America’s race-driven fault lines. This...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist “The cemeteries are full of indispensable men,” Charles De Gaulle, the great, imperious hero of World War II and subsequent...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The Republican Party’s inability to prevent some of its elected officials and party operatives alike from making racist and sexist...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist “Are there no prisons? And the workhouses, are they still in operation?” Is that what the government and the people...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Just as the holiday season begins, when the thoughts and actions of some focus on compassion for others, we...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Last week’s elections for the governorships of New Jersey, where the Republican incumbent won, and Virginia, where the Republican contender...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Before assuming the presidency in 1960, John F. Kennedy barely paid attention to any Black American beyond his valet, and...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The federal jobs reports for September issued last week showed the year’s slow – and therefore, disappointing – rate of...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Now that the GOP-manufactured economic crisis is over (for the several months, anyway), one might say the lesson for the...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Given the political gridlock in Washington that’s pushed the country to the brink of economic calamity and caused needless distress...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Following the campaign trail of E.W. Jackson, the evangelical minister who’s the Republican Party candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia,...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Surely, there’s no little historical irony in the fact that two events occurred last week that were reminders that as...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist On Saturday August 24 and Wednesday, August 28, tens of thousands of Americans gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington is an important event not only because it recalls a landmark era...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wasn’t there by himself. On that sweltering sunlit day of August 28, 1963, King and...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist No matter how much some commentators try to spin the not guilty verdict of George Zimmerman as an example that...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago this month, two of the chief characteristics of the modern Civil Rights Movement were dramatically, tragically illuminated...
