Tag: Garry Blanson

By Garry Blanson It’s fascinating how every week I’m able to find a different “FORGOTTEN BLACK PIONEER!” Sometimes while I’m researching a totally different subject, I get drawn to an event, post, or person that leads me to someone new,…

“Everything You Are and Possess Today, Whether Good or Bad, Will Pass Down To Those Who Come After You” – Paul J. Meyer. Never would I have thought that by accepting to help a friend with an out-of-town assignment, I…

By Garry Blanson As some of our Black Youth in Monroe, Louisiana are celebrating the recent High School Basketball Championships of local High Schools in Monroe, I stumbled across information about a “NOW “DEFUNCT SEGREGATED” government program that was setup…

By Garry Blanson Recently, I came across a legal term known as,”Racial Polarization.” Although you don’t really hear the term used that much anymore, the term actually goes all the way back to the 1860s! It seems that the term…

By Garry Blanson “If there is no struggle, there is no progress” – Frederick Douglass Just in case you missed it, this past Friday, February 28, 2025, which was the final day of Black History Month, a call went out…

By Garry Blanson While many Black Youth in Monroe, Louisiana are familiar with the famous Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott that was called for by Martin Luther King Jr. and other Black Leaders on December 5, 1955, the Monday after a…

By Garry Blanson As Black History Month for February 2025 heads along pass the halfway point, I would like to mention two significant things that have taken place thus far in Louisiana, during the current Black History Month. The first…