Tag: Garry Blanson

By Garry Blanson In October of 2025, Facebook finally “began payouts” from the “2022 class action lawsuit” that resulted from the “Cambridge Analytica scandal,” and other privacy violations. In order to have qualified for receiving settlement funds, you must have…

The forgotten colored school the resulted from the split of the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School, “Which would later become Grambling State University” “Those who control the education of Black children control the future of the Black race.” — Phillip…

By Garry Blanson At “700 Rogers Street,” Near Carroll High School, in Monroe, Louisiana My, my, my, oh how time does seem to fly! Well, this week of July 2026 just happens to mark the fourth consecutive year of my…

By Garry Blanson Founder of The Colored Industrial and Agricultural School, which would later become known as “Grambling State University” About four years ago, at a personal development conference, a man said, “We don’t have a crime problem in our…

By Garry Blanson Former colored slave who is considered to have led Louisiana’s first civil rights campaign Recently, I signed a petition to recall Governor Jeff Landry. When I got to the location where the signing was being held, they…

By Garry Blanson Well, well, well, when it comes to the ways Black people lose their family land involuntarily, it seems that eminent domain and the forced selling of heir property head the list! While I have included in my…

By Garry Blanson First Negro Police Officer on the Monroe Police Department in the 20th Century While so much “fanfare” was being made over the end of the Louisiana inspection sticker, did anyone else happen to notice that something very…