Sir Godfrey GreggWhen the black justice movement got too powerful, the FBI got scared and got ugly In the 1970s, the surveillance and intimidation was no joke Members of the New Orleans Black Panther Party were arrested in September, 1970. Law enforcement’s strategy against the BPP was one of systematic harassment and criminalization.…
Sir Godfrey GreggToday marks the official opening of the AIA. There was a great speech by the Taiwan Ambassador. Taiwan Government and people built the terminal building and hand it over to us as a gift. The above picture was the preparation for what we are seeing in the picture below.…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThis unheralded woman actually organized the Montgomery bus boycott Jo Ann Robinson is unfortunately overlooked by history Jo Ann Robinson’s booking photo after her arrest for helping organize the boycott. (Alabama State University) Earlier this week, the nation celebrated the birthday of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. — a custom that…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: Natasha Gregg THE ST. PATRICK’S DAY REBELLION – March 17, is more commonly known to the Irish community as St. Patrick’s Day or the Feast of St. Patrick. In the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat, the day is also known as St. Patrick’s Day, but celebrated…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThe most important black woman sculptor of the 20th century deserves more recognition Augusta Savage started sculpting as a child in the 1900s using what she could get her hands on: the clay that was part of the natural landscape in her hometown of Green Cove Springs, Florida. Eventually…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGGÂ COLIHAUT UPRISING – After the Treaty of Paris of 1763, that ceded Dominica to Britain, France in 1778, waged a successful invasion and recaptured the island during the American Revolution. However, the island was returned to Britain as part of the 1783 Treaty of Paris. The…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggHATS OF TO SHAROL-ROSE GREGG-ABBOTT. You are the greatest person I know and I take my hat off to you. I can not ask for more in a person and I just want to say how much I love you. Not before, not now but even after death the…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggEphesians 4:31 – Hebrew 12:14-15 It is one of the most destructive and dangerous of all human emotions and if not dealt with, will spiritually destroy the person who has it. One of the great problems in the life of a Christian and in our churches is something that…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGGÂ THE FIRST CARIB WAR – Crucial in the battle between European countries, namely Britain and France to build empires in the Eastern Caribbean were two things, sugar and slaves. The Caribbean islands were prime real estate for producing the profitable commodity sugar and the…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThe Grenadines is an island chain that is divided between the island nations of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada. They lie between the islands of Saint Vincent in the north and Grenada in the south. Neither Saint Vincent nor Grenada are Grenadine islands. The islands north of…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggHistory Highlight: The 2nd Carib War on St. Vincent TOPICS:St. Vincent And The Grenadines Genealogy And History POSTED BY: ADMIN JANUARY 28, 2016 Peace and tranquility were hard to come by in early St. Vincent. If hurricanes and earthquakes were not enough to shake up the growing population, restless…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggLittle encouragement for you today Godfrey Average Rating 0 out of 5 stars. 0 votes.You must log in to submit a review.
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGGÂ THE BRIGANDS WAR – The Brigands were a name given by the British to runaway slaves, free coloreds, French army deserters, who called themselves Republicans and whites, all who held democratic philosophies in St. Lucia. The war, one of the many rebellions that took…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: Natasha Gregg THE CONSPIRACY OF 1735 – Fueled by severe depression, drought and an earthquake in 1735, a century before emancipation and several decades before the Haitian Revolution, many of the planter class of Antigua had no choice but to cut costs, which included their refusal to…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggANATOMY OF A GENOCIDE YOUNG ISLAND is named after SIR WILLIAM YOUNG, Governor of Dominica and President of the Commission for the Sale of Lands in the Ceded Islands (which included Grenada, Tobago, Dominica, and St Vincent and the Grenadines). Here are letters from Young to the British…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggIt was mandated by the slave owner that only one breast could be used to feed the white child…if she switched up and let both black and white babies suckle from the same breast, she could be whipped because it was like them sharing the same water fountain. Average…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: Natasha Gregg THE CURAÇAO SLAVE REVOLT OF 1795 – The morning of August 17, 1795 saw the beginnings of an uprising on the Knip plantation in the Dutch colony of Curaçao. Led by a slave named Tula, approximately 40 to 50 slaves met in in the…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggA friend sent this video to me and after watching I want to share with you and I am sure you will enjoy it. A nice story and great lesson learnt. I trust you will have a nice day with some great added experience. Godfrey Average Rating 0 out…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggMy grandson asked his mother for him to talk to his grandfather and she obliged. He wanted to tell me what he did in school today (Monday). He got so excited and the experience with him in control captivated my spirit. He closed of by calling his grandmother to…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggNever Forget: America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 Black Sharecroppers Were Murdered In Arkansas In 1919, after the end of World War I, Black sharecroppers in Arkansas began to unionize. This attempt to form unions, triggered white vigilantism and mass killings, that left 237 Blacks dead. Towards the end…
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