The best way to overcome “The Big Lie” is with a bigger truth! For this reason, supporters of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz should set a stretch goal of securing 100 million votes on Nov. 5. This is 19 million more votes than Joe Biden received in 2020. Only 66% of eligible voters turned out for that contested election. Even with overwhelming evidence that no fraud took place in the tabulation of the vote and after more than 60 court challenges, Donald Trump stubbornly held on to the lie that the election was stolen from him. And, while it is…
Author: Michael Grant
By Michael A. Grant, J.D. NASHVILLE, TN — Tennessee Rep. Harold M. Love, Jr., the next president of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL), served as host to the NBCSL’s recent conference held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in downtown Nashville. Representative of Tennessee’s 58th legislative district, Love is now president-elect of the NBCSL. He will be sworn in as president next December (2024) in Washington, D.C. “One thing that I have thought about when it comes to leading NBCSL once I’m sworn in is to continue some of the work I’m doing now as president-elect. And…
By Michael A. Grant, J.D. NASHVILLE, TN — Representative Harold M. Love, Jr., representing Tennessee’s 58th legislative district, served as host to the recent conference of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in downtown Nashville. He is also president-elect of this powerful organization. He will be sworn in next December in Washington, D.C. Rep. Love was groomed for national leadership since his youth by his father, the legendary Harold Moses Love Sr., a Nashville city councilman from 1962 to 1970 and a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the…
By Michael A. Grant, J.D. During the late 1970’s, I went to work for the Carter Administration in the press office of Health and Human Services Secretary Joseph Califano. While our agency was focused primarily on domestic issues, one of President Carter’s all-consuming objectives was a foreign policy issue: How to broker a peace between Israel and her Arab neighbors. With Carter’s tenacity and the willingness of Israel’s Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat’s to come to Camp David to hash out what would later be called the Camp David Peace Accords, the world was given an example of how…
I write this brief essay with two goals in mind: First, I want to extend a warm welcome to the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) to its annual convention in Nashville, Tennessee. And, secondly, to try to share with your readers the powerful impact that the Black Press continues to have on our struggle for total equality in America. From Frederick Douglas’ The North Star to Ida B. Wells’ The Memphis Free Press and all subsequent members of the Black press, the plight of African – Americans was chronicled and a beacon of hope was provided through the journalistic efforts…