Congress must be aware that without swift action children in Florida are at risk of losing access to meals this summer and many more next school year. That’s because critical child nutrition waivers will soon expire and so far, Congress has failed to authorize USDA to extend them. These waivers are an important tool that Read More…
Politics
The Gantt Report – Who Are The Real Criminals?
By Lucius Gantt US President Joe Biden has described Russian President Valdimir Putin as a “war criminal” after Russia invaded Ukraine and launched missiles, air strikes and cluster bombs into civilian areas that killed more women, children and babies than Ukrainian soldiers. Russian military tactics are nothing new. Tactics used in Ukraine were used Read More…
Black Children VS. Juvenile Court System
In October 2021, ProPublica published a gutting and outrageous narrative of a juvenile court judge who oversaw a system that jailed children at extraordinary rates, and a county full of officials who collaborated or looked the other way. In one particularly egregious case that reporters Meribah Knight and Ken Armstrong found, several Black children were arrested Read More…
Trump
Former President Donald Trump has filed a sweeping RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and others, alleging that they “maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that [Trump] was colluding with a hostile foreign sovereignty [Russia]” to try and rig the 2016 election. “The Defendants, blinded by political ambition, orchestrated a malicious Read More…
Black News Channel Shutting Down
Black News Channel, the Florida-based TV news service whose majority stakeholder is Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan, is shutting down. The company announced the news of its shut down on Friday shortly after telling employees that their paychecks would be delayed, the Los Angeles Times reports. Although the channel was shopped to several media companies Read More…
The Gantt Report – Women, Children and Babies
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…