By Lucius Gantt Some of the most loyal readers and supporters of The Gantt Report have asked me why I don’t write about political misconduct and corruption every week. I don’t because I’ve been saying and writing about how local, state and federal governments have been treating all people of color for years. If Read More…
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…
In Gainesville, over 1,000 community members came together to march through the city last summer. Many of them were students at the University of Florida, carrying on Gainesville’s significant legacy of student activism, dating back to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ‘60s. Since the Civil Rights Movement, groups of UF students and Read More…
Royal, a neighborhood just west of Wildwood in Sumter County — Royal, one of the oldest Black communities in the state, houses over 150 years of history. The grove of trees where Phillip James was born is just a few yards from where he sits now: the front lawn of the Wildwood house he’s called Read More…
Water Drought in South Oregon and the Federal Relief Program, has contributed to the on-going ground water Crisis in the West. Kimberley Hasselbrink For two decades, the Bureau of Reclamation incentivized farmers to pump water faster than the resource could recover, despite warnings from its own scientists. This year, residents of Klamath County paid the Read More…
10 year 10-year-old Black girl ‘handcuffed with excessive force and arrested from school’ over an offensive drawing of a bully Davenport Journal 17 hours ago The 10-year-old girl may see her name be expunged from police records, but the memory of being arrested in front of her classmates and teachers may never be erased from Read More…
