Op-Ed

When attorneys pick jurors (during the process known as "voir dire”) they invariably want to know if the person being questioned can be open-minded...

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By Lucius Gantt, The GANTT REPORT     For about half of my life I have lived alone. I was married for 23 years, I co-habitated...

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The Gantt Report, By Lucius Gantt     Not so long ago, rapper “T.I.” had a song entitled “About the Money”. If you listen to it...

By Lucius Gantt     Little Black Sambo was a character in a children’s book called “The Story of Little Black Sambo”. There is nothing terrible...

When Sputnik circled the earth in 1957, Americans were agog that the Russians had beaten us into space.  In Black barbershops, segregated classrooms of the South and other spaces where Black folk could speak openly, it was undisputed that America’s inability to focus on the “space race” was because of its obsession with the “race question.” Three years earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that the doctrine of “separate but equal” was unconstitutional and one year after that, the Court had ordered the desegregation of public school with “all deliberate speed.”  These directives for fairness and equality for African Americans set the South ablaze and racial bigots raised every imaginable barricade to prevent equal educational opportunities for Black children.  Some people will say that desegregation had nothing to do with the space race.  But the number of Black astronauts, physicists, engineers and mathematicians who have contributed to America’s space efforts since integration exposes that bit of white supremacy for what it is.  Prohibiting African Americans from attending many universities with advanced science programs, and participating fairly in the aerospace industry and the effort to conquer space, amputated a valuable portion of this nation’s brain power.  Today, we again find ourselves in competition with Russia on another geopolitical chessboard. Russia, Brazil, India and China have pushed forward on the global...