By Lucius Gantt A good friend of mine who is a long-time supporter of The Gantt Report contacted me and suggested that I refrain, so to speak, from commenting about the Russian military invasion of Ukraine. I know my friend and I understood his feelings on the matter when he described the conflict as “white Read More…
Politics
The Gantt Report – Always Unqualified
By Lucius Gantt Once upon a time, Black residents of the United States had more than a cozy relationship with Republican politicians. If you find that hard to believe, let me take you back to the time of your ancestors and forefathers. During the first two decades of GOP existence, the Republican Party called for 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…
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…