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
Sen. Webb's Affirmative Confusion
At a time when racial dialogue amounts to charges and countercharges between the Tea Party movement and the NAACP over who's the bigger racist, you have to give Sen. James Webb credit.
Breitbart's Bum Story
In the end, the only people who came out of the Shirley Sherrod pseudo-scandal without egg on their faces was Shirley Sherrod -- and her falsely alleged "victims." Things didn't start out that way.
A Tea House Divided
Leaders of the tea party movement reacted angrily to the NAACP's call for the movement to purge "racist elements" from its ranks. Lesson: It's easier to appreciate an idea after you've decided that it was your idea in the first place.
Obama's Willie Horton
Having failed to convince us that President Barack Obama is a secret Muslim, a secret Kenyan and a secret pal of terrorists, his opponents now want us to believe he is a secret pal of the New Black Panther Party. Who?
NAACP vs. Tea Party
Tea party organizers are outraged that leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are calling their movement racist.
Climate Change Heats Up Again
Here's a note to the global warming deniers who sarcastically called me a dope during last winter's back-to-back blizzards on the East Coast: Is it hot enough for you now?
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