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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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CONFUSED ROLE MODELS FOR BLACK MALES

Jesse Jackson wants you to know that he was invited--That's I-N-V-I-T-E-D!--to counsel Dennis Rodman. News reports had implied that Jackson, former presidential candidate and wide-traveling savior of humanity, had nothing...
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RIP: UNDERCOVER JOURNALISM

A great era in journalism is passing, I fear. I lament its loss. It was the era of undercover reporting. I knew it well. It had a glorious history. Our...
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FALSE DEBATE ON EBONICS

Ebonics is the story that won't go away, no matter how much I wish it would. The Oakland School Board adopted a resolution during the Christmas holidays that called for...
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: TRY HARDER

As the battle over affirmative action heats up, I am bracing myself for the time when my side, the side that supports it, loses. The winners will be rivals like...
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A FEUD WITH THE FAMILY OVER KING’S LEGACY

The family of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has made a multimillion dollar deal with Time Warner Inc., one of the world's biggest media conglomerates, to commit his...
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WRESTLING WITH ISSUES OF ETHICS

On the night before her case was argued before the Supreme Court, I was on Paula Jones' side. You don't have to believe her sexual harassment charges against President Clinton...
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SINK DISNEY’S NEW PC PIRATES

Walt Disney Co. has gone and done it again. It was troubling enough when Disney's movie studios turned the real lives of Pocahontas and Capt. John Smith into a cartoon...
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GRASS-ROOTS VICTORIES IN WAR ON CRIME

After years of rising terror, something unusual is happening with big-city crime. It's going down. Chicago ended the year with its lowest homicide rate since 1989 and its lowest crime...