The Gantt Report
By Lucius Gantt
Happy Holidays to all who have enjoyed The Gantt Report in 2024. I truly appreciate your support in the current year and your longtime support that has taken place for many decades.
Ask any opinion writer, It’s hard to study, research, and write columns each, and every week but God gave me the skill and talent to use in my mission to inform and enlighten my people on this planet.
I don’t do holidays, but I do adore my friends that do. I want to thank my man Terry Mayfield and his wife and family for inviting me over for the holidays every year. I missed their event this year, but Lucius will show up at his house at any time.
I want to thank the media owners who publish and distribute The Gantt Report. They get mad at me a lot, but they also know which columns are read the most.
Believe it or not, only about 70 media owners and individuals get TGR from me, but the column generates around 5000 views each time it is posted by people other than me on the internet.
I believe most Black media companies in the United States are currently owned or managed by Black women. I wish all of them well.
It’s important for me to support Black women. I recognize that 2024 has been disappointing for African American females.
After a surprising loss by Kamala Harris, sisters in the hood were mad as hell! When your “cat” is mad, there isn’t too much you can do about it. More than Black men felt female anger, white women felt it, white men felt it, Black women who didn’t vote for Kamala felt it, children and other relatives felt it, coworkers felt it, neighbors felt it, and the whole world felt it.
The end of the year is a good time for joy and peace. However, I pray that Black women share and receive more love.
America’s Black media landscape has changed. At one time, almost every Black household contained a copy of Ebony or Jet magazines. Nearly every Black man and woman had read, or heard of, The Pittsburgh Courier, The Atlanta World, The Chicago Defender, or other Black newspapers.
Today, our people get their news from the internet and social media. Black leaders are designated as such by white media companies and our knowledge and wisdom are often reduced to 30-second social media posts made by charlatans and clowns!
Black women are truly queens. I think they are Gods on earth.
Queens support their kings. No one loves their children more than their mothers.
I want the Black queens I know to love the truth, love the freedom fighters, love the freedom riders, love the community activists, and love the men who will defend you with their lives!
This idea of Black leaders being designated by internet posts must be discredited, abandoned, and ignored!
You see, Black leaders, women, and men; are like the shepherds of the Black Flocks.
You don’t want your shepherd to lead you to a desert, you want to be led to greener pastures, you don’t want to be led to the local “Trap”, you want to be led to “the Promised Land”, you don’t want to be led back to the plantation days, you want to be led to freedom, justice, and glory days!
Black, women and men, let’s support each other. Don’t let the 2025 devils divide us any longer!
I am still working on digitizing The Gantt Report to guarantee that everyone can access the column around the world.
Most internet posters merely copy, post, and comment on other’s content.
The Gantt Report has 40 years of informative content, years of television and radio experience, and recognition from my media colleagues, media scholars, and educators. The Gantt Report is unadulterated. TGR is the column that can’t be imitated or duplicated, but you know that!
I’m trying my best to get TGR online as fast as I can. Bear with me, please.