The Gantt Report: By Lucius Gantt Once upon a time, there was an American television show called “Have Gun, Will Travel”. It was about a gringo gunslinger named Paladin that went from town to town in the Wild West helping people solve problems that a gunslinger could solve. In my mind, Paladin was more than Read More…
Perspective
The Power of the Voice – When the Word Becomes Incarnate
The Power of the Voice – When the Word Becomes Incarnate By J. Jioni Palmer, Contributing Writer Black. Lives. Matter. Three. Simple. Words. Alone they are inanimate. Just words on the page. Without context, definition, relevance, or meaning. Kind of like—White. Deaths. Unimportant. Three. Simple. Words. Black Lives Matter. Together they come alive. Together they Read More…
Growing Elderly
Growing Elderly is part of life, one day it will be you. Twice this week, I have watched an elderly individual, fade into the busy life in which we all live. One man just needed Panadol for his wife but the shop assistant simply said it’s in ‘6’. But he struggled to navigate the supermarket Read More…
The Gantt Report
By Lucius Gantt: Teaching and Preaching When Jesus was a pre-teen aged little boy, he and his parents made a trip to Jerusalem. On the family’s way home, they realized Jesus was not with them. About a day or so later, they returned to Jerusalem searching for their child and found Jesus in the temple Read More…
AVA’S PERSPECTIVE- WORDS HAVE POWER
By Ava Johnson The words you speak can create or destroy. Your mouth holds more power than you think. Ancient cultures, including the: African, Greek, and Roman cultures, believed that to utter a curse verbally was extremely powerful. Our ancestors felt that creation comes forth from sound and vibration. Their consensus was, “to say the thought out Read More…
The Gantt Report- Are we being Pimped?
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…