I am still hers. I am still hers. Its best to receive our African Ancestors as they appear. I’ve learned it’s best not to try to control how the memories of my mother show up, or what emotions they are wearing when they enter. This one is dressed in a rare crossbreed of inconsolable laughter Read More…
Year: 2022
Transgenders
(Natural News) Young people who were groomed into permanently mutilating their bodies in order to become “transgender” are speaking out about the regret they now feel having destroyed their lives. One woman called “Lgbtcos” shared a post on Reddit recently entitled “My consent was not informed” detailing how she finally escaped the transgender lifestyle, only to now Read More…
Misguided Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm can be misguided in life, however, who’s qualified to pass judgement on matters such as this? For example: Rev. Jason D. Thompson, Ph.D., Contributing Writer Nearly everyone has an idea about what the church is and why it exists. Yet, due to our limited grasp of how the Kingdom of God looks, we find ourselves Read More…
Activism in Gainesville, Fla.
In Gainesville, over 1,000 community members came together to march through the city last summer. Many of them were students at the University of Florida, carrying on Gainesville’s significant legacy of student activism, dating back to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ‘60s. Since the Civil Rights Movement, groups of UF students and Read More…
The Royal Community One of the oldest Black Communities in the State
Royal, a neighborhood just west of Wildwood in Sumter County — Royal, one of the oldest Black communities in the state, houses over 150 years of history. The grove of trees where Phillip James was born is just a few yards from where he sits now: the front lawn of the Wildwood house he’s called Read More…
NFL And Racism
As NFL fans were gearing up to see the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams play in the Super Bowl, they also learned that the league was facing a lawsuit alleging racism, discrimination and other unethical actions. It was filed on Feb. 1 in Manhattan by attorneys for Brian Flores, who was fired as the Read More…
Rent Increases
Krystal Guerra’s Miami apartment has a tiny kitchen, cracked tiles, warped cabinets, no dishwasher and hardly any storage space. But Guerra was fine with the apartment’s shortcomings. It was all part of being a 32-year-old graduate student in South Florida, she reasoned, and she was happy to live there for a few more years as Read More…
The Gantt Report – The Registration Racket
The Gantt Report By Lucius Gantt Today is one of those days. I know TGR readers don’t like for me to write too many columns like this edition but the world knows that I try to write the truth whether people like the truth or not. Follow me. Too many so-called Black political heroes and Read More…
The Gantt Report – The Book Report Club
The Book Report Club By Lucius Gantt The Gantt Report Book Club has only one member, me. I thought the club title would have some significance because when Oprah Winfrey talked about books in her book club, many of the writings subsequently became best sellers and made top 10 lists in newspapers like The New Read More…
Major Robert Lawrence, USA’s 1st Black Astronaut
Photo courtesy NASA Major Robert Lawrence USA’s 1st Black Astronaut has never been mention nor have we ever knew of his greatness and brillant accomplishments to our Nation. Here it is. On December 8, 1967, a specially modified F-104 Starfighter rolled down the runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The weather was cool Read More…