Tag: Garry Blanson

By Garry Blanson “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905 It’s amazing how not being born during a certain era can keep Black people in Monroe, Louisiana, from…

By Garry Blanson “The first colored man to run for President of the United States after the abolishment of slavery in America” “The Purcell Principle, which is often used by the U.S. Supreme Court, is supposed to help keep the…

By Garry Blanson “The first Black to be elected to the Louisiana State House of Representatives after Black citizens were disenfranchised from politics in Louisiana in 1878” “When you check the record, you will see that it was white U.S.…

By Garry Blanson “With so much drama in the L.A. B, Louisiana Boot, it’s kinda hard bein’ G.-O’Dell-B., but, somehow, someway, I keep coming up with Fresh New Topics for my Articles, from Day-to-Day!” — Garry Blanson Well, since last…

By Garry Blanson “Mary Jane Harper cried last night!” In case you were wondering who Mary Jane Harper is, and why you should care about her crying last night, she was a child character in a 1977 television movie which…

By Garry Blanson A Former Slave and One of the Founders of Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana During my regular research activity online, I came across an article about a lawsuit against the NASCAR association that included former NBA…

  By Garry Blanson The Colored Man rumored to have purchased the land where the “Wisner School” was built in Monroe, Louisiana, in 1866 “We are born into this world; we graduate from school; but we transition to the hereafter!”…