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Prosecutors Are Like Ghosts by Lucius Gantt

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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 contact with a Hispanic ghost […]
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NABJ Awards USC Annenberg’s Eric Burse Student Journalist of the Year

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Washington, DC – The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) announces that Eric Burse, a student at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, is the 2012 Student Journalist of the Year. Burse will be honored this summer amongst other honorees at NABJ’s 37th Annual Convention and Career Fair, the […]
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Black Women’s Roundtable National Women of Power Summit Amplifies the Voices of Women and Girls

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Washington, DC – The slaying of Trayvon Martin and other innocent teens was foremost on the hearts and minds of nearly 400 Black women from across the country that assembled recently in Washington, DC for the Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) inaugural National Women of Power Summit, three days of down-to-earth discussions aiming to “Amplifying the […]
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Gripping Urban Drama “A Family On Edge” Wraps Filming in Atlanta

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Atlanta, GA – Principal photography wrapped yesterday in Atlanta on A Family On Edge, directed by Bruce Locke, with the assistance of director of photography Hakim Robinson. The urban drama filmed in various locations throughout the Atlanta area for the past month and stars Sean White (MICHAEL), Jules Nobles (RISA) and Gabriel Davis (GABRIEL). There’s […]
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The Central Florida Puppet Project – The Gantt Report

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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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JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON – Slain teen’s girlfriend heard altercation

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By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY – A Florida grand jury will investigate the controversial shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer in a Florida gated community. Bernjamin Crump, a lawyer for the Martin family, says a 16-year-old girlfriend in Miami was on the phone with Trayvon at the time of the altercation […]
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Health Care Organization’s Inaugural Gala Honors Supporters Of Healthy Communities

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Trayvon Martin Murder – The Return to Slavery Days – by Lucius Gantt

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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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Justice Demanded in the Death of Trayvon Martin @NatUrbanLeague @ncbcp @greencampuses

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By Marc H. Morial – Being a young black man has been called the hardest job in America. Young black men are much more likely than white men to be jobless, in jail and labelled “suspicious,” sometimes with deadly consequences. Such was the case on February 26th, when 17-year-old high school student, Trayvon Martin, was […]
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