Category: Opinions

By Garry Blanson Recently, I heard a story about a school teacher who wanted to emphasize a point about “VOTING” to her students. However, instead of browbeating them, she simply wrote a question on the chalkboard. The question she wrote…

By Garry Blanson Caroline was born on November 1, 1848, in the “FREE STATE” territory of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father, “William Still,” was a wealthy Negro businessman, philanthropist, and abolitionist. He did his best to instill in her consciousness a…

By Garry Blanson Well, not too long ago in America, the law said, If the mother of a newly born child was a slave, then the child was also a slave!” However, thanks mainly to people called “Abolitionists,” many states…

By Garry Blanson It’s difficult imagining a child’s mother being raped and killed, and then her father abandoning the child to be raised by close friends of her mother. Well, that’s exactly what Daisy Gatson Bates had to endure, during…

By Garry Blanson Today in America, with the exception of the Blacks who are locked up as a result of being caught up in the American prison system, most Black People are deemed to be “Free Black” Americans. Which draws…

By Garry Blanson Today, many Black High School  Students in Monroe , Louisiana are shocked to hear about a court case involving a Black person where the person decides to “serve jail time,” rather than “pay the fine!” Well, during the…

By Garry Blanson It was reported that General Ulysses S. Grant wrote in his Personal Memoirs, “The fate of the Confederacy was sealed when Vicksburg fell, and the Confederate military forces surrendered in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 4, 1863.” Peter Crosby…