Essays

A commentary by Rep. Lloyd C. Daniel We now know that the Russian government helped Trump win the White House. When President Obama was legally elected, Republican congress people held a press conference decla...

(a praise poem for the conscious and brave athlete) By Lloyd C. Daniel Not so long after slavery, in the early 1900s, when Black people were being lynched in wholesale fashion, Jack Johnson challenged Jim...

A Commentary by Lloyd C. Daniel April 2016 As the Republican Party continues to eat itself, the motion of history is proving to be unstoppable.  Whatever happens, time will move on. But the question remains,...

A Commentary by Lloyd C. Daniel In November, across the United States, an important set of elections take place.  This nation’s economy, for working class and poor people, is doing worst than at any time in...

Internationally, America needs more than a smiling mask for imperialism. Other nations have the right of self-determination too.

Now, just because it's something cool on a Friday afternoon, here's the latest from our favorite former Missouri state rep/poet, Lloyd Daniel. Inspired by "Kansas City's authentic cultural identity," and thinking that, regardless of the national economy, we could do a better job of "using our past as a primary pillar of the city's economic future,"

An Open Letter By Former Missouri State Rep. Lloyd C. Daniel     Congress can stop the worst international trade agreement in United States’ history.  The people need elected leaders who ha...

Let failed hyper testing systems go. Create new post-industrial methods of learning in harmony with now and the future.

“No lie can live forever.” “Truth crushed to the earth shall rise again.”

It’s difficult to love the culture of people you take for granted and or hate.