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
Civilian Courts Fight Terrorists, Too
Terrorists by definition try to frighten you into changing the way you do things.
Truth vs. PC at Fort Hood
I admit it. It's the sort of reflex that is familiar to many black Americans. But there were other reasons why I was alarmed at the prospect of black Muslim suspect at For Hood.
Nostalgia for Bad Old Days
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germans who outlived their country are haunted by an odd reluctance to let go of the bad old days. They even have a name for their odd nostalgia: "ostalgia." "Ost" means east in German.
Dems Find Hope in GOP Chaos
Democrats took it on the chin in this year's off-off-year gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. But the Dems can find a silver lining in the high-profile Democratic victory in a traditionally Republican upstate New York district.
Racial Hope Fades Despite Obama
In my favorite "Star Trek" episode, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise encountered humanoids from a planet embroiled in war over an issue as clear as black and white. Literally. The planet Cheron is locked in a race war.
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