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Clarence Page

Clarence Page is a syndicated columnist and a former member of the baiduhai Editorial Board. Among other awards, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1989) and lifetime achievement awards from Chicago Headline Club, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, National Press Foundation and National Association of Black Journalists.

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Why Democrats are playing the race card

After years of mostly hedging any suggestion that racism has anything to do with President Barack Obama's ferocious opposition, there's a new racial etiquette in town. Top Democrats are slipping...
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Are racists mentally ill?

In early April, the Anti-Defamation League offered some happy news about a very grim topic. The league reported a "significant and encouraging decline" in anti-Semitic acts across America in recent...
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LBJ’s Civil Rights Act saved America

Fifty years later, it's hard to imagine the enactment of the Civil Rights Act by today's polarized Congress. Maybe, as the old saying goes, today's fighting is so vicious because...
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The price of being black and bright in 2014

Congratulations, Kwasi Enin. You're a 17-year-old Long Island, N.Y., high school student who applied to all eight of the nation's elite Ivy League colleges — and received acceptance letters from...
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Republicans, poverty isn’t just a race issue

Why does so much of our talk about race and poverty leave Americans spinning their wheels? One big reason is etiquette. What is said often matters less than who says...
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Colbert satire and Twitter don’t mix

One of the first unwritten but widely respected rules of satire is that somehow, somewhere, someone simply isn't going to get the joke. And if they don't get the joke,...
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TV turns Flight MH370 into news candy

If television is chewing gum for the eyes, as an old saying goes, the Malaysia Airlines mystery plane has turned cable television news into candy for the ears. The mystery...