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Commentary, Gantt Report

The Gantt Report – On my first visit to the continent of Africa, I was received by my African brothers and sisters with open arms. Smiles were everywhere and I was truly glad to finally see the land and touch the grounds that my ancestors had walked on. I traveled to Zimbabwe, Botswana and all [...]
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Lucius Ganttt- The Gantt Report The Gantt Report – Prosecutors and law enforcement officers oftentimes think like Casper, the so-called friendly ghost! In the world of ghosts, everything is white! Ghost Hunters are white and Ghostbusters are white or act white. Have you ever seen or heard of a Black ghost? Have you come in [...]
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Commentary, Gantt Report

By Lucius Gantt – Everybody reading this column has a family member, a friend, a classmate, a coworker or a neighbor that always seems to be complaining, protesting, speaking out or standing up about insensitivity, injustice or inequality. Instead of those people being honored, appreciated or praised, people we know that fight for our rights, [...]
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Commentary, Gantt Report

The Gantt Report – Five hundred years after Slavery Days in the United States we find that there are still more than a few people that think they can do anything they want to African American men, women and children and get away with it. Have you forgotten how our great grandparents and other ancestors [...]
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Commentary, Gantt Report

The Gantt Report – The so-called government inspired mortgage settlement is a cruel joke on American homeowners and bank depositors. Bankers, money changers, predatory lenders and financial criminals are jumping for joy after the United States government unveiled a plan that would allow each and every one of the crooks that conspired to steal trillions [...]
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Gantt Report

The barbeque smoke permeated the Black community air on Martin Luther King’s birth date in 2012. Some people golfed, some were boating and many people participated in symbolic marches where they locked arms on one side with closet Klansmen and on the other side with neo-Nazis and walked a couple of blocks singing “We Shall [...]
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(The Gantt Report) – As a 19-year-old Georgia State University student, I became a member of my fraternity’s pledge club. As a pledge, I was beaten unmercifully, ridiculed, taunted and more as was tradition in a variety of campus groups. Once I crossed the burning sands, so to speak, and became a founding member of [...]
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Commentary, Gantt Report

The Gantt Report By Lucius Gantt – Growing up in the housing projects and ghettos of Atlanta, I saw my share of gamblers, hustlers, pickpockets, peddlers and pan handlers. When I moved to Tallahassee, I saw a lot of things but a lot of things I didn’t see! Let me explain. Growing up on the [...]
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Commentary, Gantt Report

By Lucius Gantt (The Gantt Report) – Who is, or should be, known as the greatest robber? Is it Robin Hood or Ali Baba? Could it be Bonnie and Clyde, Jesse and Frank James? Maybe you’d say it was John Dillinger or Baby Face Nelson. I say the greatest bank robbers are United States bankers [...]