Tag: Garry Blanson

By Garry Blanson During a recent conversation, a friend of mine alerted me of two “NEGRO CLASSIC” books written by a Black man named Edward Franklin Frazier. The first book is, “The Negro Family In The United States,” and the…

By Garry Blanson In a recent conversation, it was again brought to my attention as to how “more and more” of our “Black Youth” in Monroe, Louisiana are getting caught up in the city & Ouachita Parish court system. Also,…

By Garry Blanson Jim Rohn once said, “If we ignore the lessons of the past, from whatever the source, then we may become victims of the process of trial and error.” You see, there are many lessons to be learned…

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…