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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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Kerry needs a vision to win votes for the presidency

When presidential hopeful John Kerry's staff invited me and four other black columnists to a "get-acquainted" meeting, I bristled at the possibility of a pander-fest. Fortunately, it never got worse...
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Rice takes the right tone in hearings

It was during her musings on the sources of terrorism before the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that Condoleezza Rice had her high-drama, "You go, girlfriend!" moment....
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Rwanda’s lesson: `Never again’

The two men were neighbors and good buddies. They often got together, told jokes and shared that great international adhesive of male bonding, beer. That was before a mob insisted...
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Pop star’s thriller on Capitol Hill

Yes, that really was Michael Jackson and not an early April Fools' Day joke standing with members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Capitol Hill last week. Sure, it was...
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Authentically self-hating

Black teenage girls don't get much respect, not even from each other. That's just one of the startling findings of a recent study on sex and gender attitudes of low-income...
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Running with religion in 2004

Religion is like nitroglycerin in politics. If that observation troubles you, you're not giving enough credit to nitroglycerin. Nitro is not all bad. It simply must be handled with care....
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What Brown did not bring to education

America's public schools, as you may have noticed, remain largely divided by race in spite of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision. As the 50th...
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Jayson Blair’s new career: Scandal star

As I sit down to peck out some thoughts about Jayson Blair and his World Contrition Tour to plug his book, I am tempted to pretend that I actually have...