By Lucius Gantt Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers around the world and a pleasant, peaceful and stress-free day to the mothers that enjoy reading The Gantt Report sometimes. This column may appear in your publications after the holiday but I want good mothers to know that every day should be mothers Read More…
Education
Young Black Female Navigator turns Sailing Tankers into a Travel Career
Nationwide — Capt. Sandy Campbell has circumnavigated the globe at the helm of the world’s largest gas tankers as a merchant mariner and seafarer. Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, she’s no stranger to taking on challenges and breaking down barriers. But today the young seafarer has traded her seat in the captain’s bridge for Read More…
Defining generations: Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins
BY MICHAEL DIMOCK For decades, Pew Research Center has been committed to measuring public attitudes on key issues and documenting differences in those attitudes across demographic groups. One lens often employed by researchers at the Center to understand these differences is that of generation. Generations provide the opportunity to look at Americans both by their place Read More…
Former child star claims Disney ‘sexualized’ young actresses
The ‘Suite Life’ star says Disney Channel sexualized its young female cast members. (LifeSiteNews) — An actor who starred as a child in a hit Disney Channel show with his twin brother said the network “sexualized” its young actresses. Cole Sprouse, who starred in “The Suite Life of Zach and Cody,” told the New York Times that Read More…
60 Years of Activism in Gainesville: Denifield Player to Tiffany Pennamon
By Brooks Bass, Morgan Goldwich, Kevin Maher, Michaela Mulligan, Emma Ross and Thomas Weber May 20, 2021 Florida Good, Longform, Racial equity Thursday marks one month since former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd. And Tuesday is one year since Floyd’s death, an event that sparked months-long protests across the country in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Read More…
Meet the Black Educator Whose Workbooks Are Being Used in Ghana, Haiti, Mexico and South Korea
Nationwide — Rosa Higgs, an African American educator and the author of Read in 40 Hours or Less workbook series, is celebrating that her books are being used by teachers, parents, and students all across the U.S. and all over the world. She is receiving orders from as far away as Ghana, Haiti, Mexico, and South Korea. According Read More…








