{"id":16625,"date":"2022-03-25T15:33:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/?p=16625"},"modified":"2022-03-25T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:33:42","slug":"the-gantt-report-the-book-report-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/the-gantt-report-the-book-report-club\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gantt Report – The Book Report Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Book Report Club<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Lucius Gantt<\/p>\n

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 York Times.<\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019m not Oprah and my favorite books won\u2019t make any best seller lists but my books will motivate, inspire and educate my readers.<\/p>\n

Readers that know me know that I don\u2019t usually read opinions from other columnists. I completed two graduate school programs, one in science and one in journalism, but I don\u2019t consider myself a scholar and I don\u2019t write editorials to please scholars.<\/p>\n

Some of the columnists that you love are motivated by the writings of Grimm, Aesop, Hans Christian Anderson and J.K. Rowling. Those writings, in my mind, are basically fairy tales.<\/p>\n

I get my inspirations from writers like John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish, Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X and Marcus Garvey.<\/p>\n

The Gantt Report style is very unique. TGR is often imitated but can never be duplicated! My writings can be read and enjoyed by every Black man or woman regardless of their status, education, income or literary interests. I\u2019ve been told TGR is the most favored column read in America\u2019s prisons and penitentiaries.<\/p>\n

You can remove my name from a column and Gantt Report fans won\u2019t be misled or bamboozled, they\u2019ll say, \u201cThat\u2019s Lucius Gantt!\u201d I\u2019ve used pen names in columns I\u2019ve written and I didn\u2019t fool anyone.<\/p>\n

Today, I want to share some book titles that helped to create The Gantt Report messages. What I write has oftentimes been written or said long before I came on the editorial scene.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, you will be interested in reading what I read. Perhaps, you\u2019ll be just as informed and entertained as I was.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go. Some books I read are listed below:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Book of the Dead\u201d, introduction by E.A. Wallis Budge<\/p>\n

\u201cAfrican Origins of the Major Western Religions\u201d, by Yosef Ben. Jochannan<\/p>\n

\u201cIs God a White Racist\u201d, by William R. Jones<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Original Maccabees Bible\u201d, preface by Rev. Roderick McLean, PhD<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack God\u201d by Julian Baldick<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Yoruba Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts\u201d, by Baba Ifa Karade<\/p>\n

\u201cWorld\u2019s Great Men of Color\u201d, by J.A. Rodgers (Vol. I and II)<\/p>\n

\u201cClassical Black Nationalism\u201d, by Wilson Jeremiah Moses<\/p>\n

\u201cConfessions of an Economic Hit Man\u201d, by John Perkins<\/p>\n

\u201cHow To Disappear\u201d, by Frank Ahearn<\/p>\n

\u201cHow to be Invisible\u201d, by J. J. Luna<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mis-Education of the Negro\u201d, by Carter G. Woodson<\/p>\n

\u201cNigger\u201d, by Randall Kennedy<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite Tribe Dreaming\u201d, by Marq de Villiers<\/p>\n

\u201cI Write What I Like\u201d, by Steve Biko<\/p>\n

\u2018The Book of Khallid\u201d, by Malik Zulu Shabazz<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Dismantling of Global White Privilege\u201d by Chandran Nair<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Crisis Writings\u201d by W.E.B. Dubois<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Isis Papers\u201d, by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack Power\u201d, by Stokely Carmichael<\/p>\n

\u201cTo Die for the People\u201d, by Huey Newton<\/p>\n

\u201cThe End of White Supremacy\u201d, by Malcolm X<\/p>\n

\u201cBlood in my Eye\u201d, by George Jackson<\/p>\n

\u201cDenmark Vesey\u201d, by David Robertson<\/p>\n

\u201cSoul on Ice\u201d, by Eldridge Cleaver<\/p>\n

\u201cIf They Come in the Morning\u201d, by Angela Davis<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack Nationalism and the Revolution in Music\u201d, by Frank Kofsky<\/p>\n

I could go on and on but I want to keep this column TGR lengthwise. Obviously, I need to follow up with more titles by African freedom fighters like Nkrumah, Nyerere, Cabral, Selassie and others.<\/p>\n

I also encourage you to read the \u201cbeast\u201d series of Gantt books.<\/p>\n

In addition to reading books, I also read about five newspapers a day.<\/p>\n

I say all the time that we can learn from anybody. We can learn from the mouths of babes or from the slurred speeches from winos.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is, never stop learning, never stop reading and never stop enjoying The Gantt Report.<\/p>\n

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