Clarence Page
Twice a week, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page addresses the social, economic and political issues affecting Americans. Writing with passion and style, Page delivers lively commentary on today's pressing issues, such as crime, education, housing, hunger and bigotry. He is syndicated by Tribune Media Services in more than 200 papers nationwide.
Page started his journalism career as a freelance writer and photographer for the Middletown (Ohio) Journal and Cincinnati Enquirer. A columnist and member of the editorial board at the Chicago Tribune since 1984, Page worked as director of community affairs and as an on-air reporter at Chicago CBS affiliate WBBM-TV. Prior to his television career, he held various positions in the Tribune's newsroom for 11 years, including neighborhood news reporter and assistant city editor.
Page is the author of the book "Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity" (1996, HarperCollins). He has published articles in Chicago Magazine, the Chicago Reader, Washington Monthly, The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, New York Newsday and Emerge. He is a regular essayist for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS and has served as a panelist/commentator for a variety of news programs, including "The McLaughlin Group," "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, Black Entertainment Television's "Lead Story" news panel program, ABC's "This Week" roundtable news program and National Public Radio's "Weekend Sunday." He also has hosted several PBS documentaries.
In 1992, Page was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame. He is the winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for commentary and was also part of the Chicago Tribune task force investigation on voter fraud that won a Pulitzer in 1973. His other awards include a 1980 Illinois UPI Award for community service for an investigative series titled "The Black Tax" and the Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting of a 1976 series on the changing politics of South Africa.
Clarence Page Samples
Beck-A-Palooza
It's so hard to please some people. "We knew the reports would ... underestimate crowd and we knew the media wouldn't get the message," he said on his Monday TV show. That's gratitude for you.
Beck-A-Palooza
It's so hard to please some people. "We knew the reports would ... underestimate crowd and we knew the media wouldn't get the message," he said on his Monday TV show. That's gratitude for you.
Speak Ebonics? DEA's Hiring
Speak Ebonics? Yes, academics and culture warriors may argue endlessly over the merits of "black English" as a subject to be taught or whether it is a separate language. Reason: Drug agents in certain communities need help in translating wiretaps.
Swearing Off the N-Word
Oh, no, Dr. Laura. Her offense: flagrant on-air use of ... the N-word. Yes, the "N-word." There's was a time back in the 1960s when, say, Dick Gregory could the unexpurgated N-word to title his best-selling autobiography.
How to Spread Dumb-ocracy
Are Americans getting dumber? Almost one in five Americans think President Obama is a Muslim, according to a new Pew Research Center poll, up from the 11 percent who said so in March 2009. At least most of them knew that Obama was president.
Obama's Mosque Mess
Now that President Barack Obama has inserted himself into the trumped-up, in my view, controversy over a proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero, he needs to perform what for him is an unnatural act: follow the example of his predece...
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