CEMETERIES If they’re not simply abandoned, they are accused of wastefulness and pollution: cemeteries have a hard life in our current times. And yet, they can play an essential role — on both the environmental and human levels — for those who are still living. The only time I’ve ever slept in a cemetery was Read More…
You Are a Sovereign Being – Time to Start Acting Like It There is a growing awareness and indignation about the injustice and inequality running rampant in our world, and growing interest in creating the better world that we all know can exist. One of the key changes that needs to happen to enable the Read More…
Veterans With PTSD Black IT Consultant Leaves His Job, Creates Powerful Mental Technology That Helps Veterans With PTSD Gerard Nguedi is a highly educated African American man from Cameroon who was diagnosed with PTSD in 2016 after being repeatedly assaulted by the police for no reason. His father was a military man all of his Read More…
Astroworld Disaster, a Reckoning for Music Festivals Flowers are seen outside of the canceled Astroworld festival at Houston’s NRG Park on November 7, 2021.Alex Bierens de Haan/Getty When the music started, the crowd of 50,000-plus festivalgoers surged forward. Those in front of the stage found themselves pinned against metal barriers, unable to raise their arms Read More…
Are we being Pimped? My oldest child once told me that every adult in a relationship is either a pimp or a whore. My interpretation of that is, in every relation there will be gives and takes that are normally unequal. Someone gets more and the other often gets much less. Who’s pimping Black folk? Read More…
The Gantt Report – Protect the Kittens Warning by Lucius Gantt It is not unusual to see a cougar hunt and chase after a young snake. At the same time, I think it is disgusting to see a mature cat chaser messing around trying to hit a kitten! I have seen very mature males that Read More…
By Lucius Gantt The Beast Bank Conspiracy: Black people all across America are seeing the Black communities they grew up in turning to white neighborhoods. There’s no problem with anyone of any race moving into the neighborhood they desire. One of the problems with so-called gentrification is the unequal ability to acquire home and property Read More…
The Gantt Report By Lucius Gantt I’ve been writing editorial and opinion columns for most of my life. My writing longevity has endured because I’m smart enough to know to stay away from writing about “hair” and “religion”. Well, today I’ll try to give readers an impartial view on Christianity, Islam and Black people. First, Read More…
Schools faced with D and F Students are ditching the old way of grading A few years ago, high school teacher Joshua Moreno got fed up with his grading system, which had become a points game. Some students accumulated so many points early on that by the end of the term they knew they didn’t Read More…
ENVIRONMENTAL FOR BLACK & BROWN COMMUNITIES: Why Residents Pushed Back Against Tree-Planting Detroiters were refusing city-sponsored “free trees.” A researcher found out the problem: She was the first person to ask them if they wanted them. A landmark report conducted by University of Michigan environmental sociologist Dorceta Taylor in 2014 warned of the “arrogance” of Read More…
