Griffin Speaks

Greg's Weekly Column in the Montgomery-Tuskegee Times

Beginning with the July 5-11, 2001, edition of the Times, Greg will have a weekly column in one of the nation's most historic newspapers serving the black community.

As it is made clear from his very first column, Greg is certainly not hesitant to speak his mind!

 

Blind Date Dr. Alexander Crab Bucket Man Loves a Woman Our Michael
Trading Races Spike Obie Scott Dennis Sweet  
The Best Deal In Town The Afro Mirror Mirror Reverend Al Dixon  
A Very Proud Father Salute to Dr. Maryland James Brown The Black Church  
In Memory of Gilda Election 2010 A Lesson in Humility Male Rape
Defense Secretary Robert Gates Morehouse 2010 Commencement Speaker Lena Horne Dead at 92 The Knock Out Rose Academy Awards
The ACT Row Row Row Your Boat Office Politics A Tribute to Richard Jordan
My Cousin the Queen T. William "Bill" McIntyre Traffic Stops Wisdom
Buy Insurance  Is Tiger Woods Gay?  Debt Relief Porky Pig II
Spring Break 2010 The Haiti Earthquake The Holiday Sophia Bracy Harris:  An American Hero
Balaam's Donkey www.office depot.com The Blind Side The Wonderful World of Oz
Forever Young Empty Sleeves It's About Time Our Ancestors
Death of a Father Drink Up The Incredible Sun The Greg and Deb Griffin Foundation
Dr. Ralph J. Bryson Jeh Charles Johnson on the events surrounding 911 Griffin Properties Suffer Major Fire Teddy Pendergrass
To Die To Sleep Working Until You Drop Morehouse Bound The Last Days
 Harriott II Two Great Men Have Died  Historians Reveal that Abraham Lincoln was Half Black Spring Fever
Are You Ready? Dr. Percy Lavon Julian St. Jude the Morehouse of Montgomery The Unity Breakfast Speech
Save Your Marriage Lowes of Wetumpka Secrets

    Mom Always Liked You Best
Mrs. Bob Riley for Governor Monroe Street Tour I Loved Lucy President Obama's Top Choice
Guardian Angels  When Two Elephants Fight Abolish Racial Categorization Holiday Champagne Gala
Death of Parents Michelle Obama's New Clothes A Trip To Washington The Plum Book: Jobs 
A Tribute To Claiborne Pell Rich and Stupid Appearance The Great Depression  
Nod Nod Wink Wink Jim Crow and Me An Idiot And A Fool Vitamins are Essential for the Aging Eye  
Seize The Opportunity And Pull Up Your Pants The Electoral College Twenty-Fifth Law School Reunion Howie Hodges: Buffalo Wings  
The Truth About Shingles Tribute To Attorney J. L. Chestnut Can Barack Obama Really Win? Brain Attack  
Get Rich Buying Stocks Total Respect Tame Your Tongue God Works in Mysterious Ways  
Risk Bernie Mac Dead at Fifty State Health Officer White Student Becomes Morehouse College 2008 Valedictorian  
Break a Bad Habit Be a Good Neighbor Celebrating the Fourth of July The Rule of 78  
To Catch A Thief When "Big Ma Ma Dies" Turning Fifty My Thoughts on the Passing of Mrs. Johnnie Carr  
Undercover Homosexual The Obama Wright Controversy Fast and Pray Echol Nix MLK Day Speech  
Figure It Out Youth is Wasted on the Young What's Done in the Dark  The Great Debaters  
The Pig's Price Fiftieth Birthday Celebration Tribute to Fred Frank Bell II Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Poverty  
Hoodia and Weight Loss Hoover Days In Memory of Mrs. Amy Lou Stallworth Lawrence Driving While Black  
Practical Dreamer Merry Christmas Feel Good About Yourself Family Reunion  
A Tribute to Major Carrol S. Woods Coping with the Holiday Blues Guess Who Won the Lottery Inaugural Speech of Morehouse President, Dr. Robert M. Franklin '75,
To Tell The Truth Time to Forgive The Breakdown of the Black Family  In Memory of Reverend Ike  
Right Before Your Eyes Become a Good Listener Terrance "The Watchdog" Dawson  
Copper Theft A Tribute to Mrs. Essie Buskey Money, Money, Money Deadly Skin Cancer Found in Blacks  
San Francisco Cemetery Ban A New York Vacation Smile The Death of a Mother  
Life Is Short Marcus Garvey Hugo Black and the KKK Control Your Tongue  
A Tribute to Benjamin Phillip McLaurin Bring The Boys Home Five Stages of Grief The American Dream  

The Death of My Mother:
Alger J. Griffin
on April 30, 2007 		Rev. Beecher Hicks Hosting Thirty-Three African Kings A Wealthy Man
Drink Plenty of Water Tough Times Never Last Preventing Type II Diabetes Climbing Jacob's Ladder  
Senator Barack Obama Has "It" Letter From Death Row         Celebrating the Life of Attorney Charles  Douglas Langford Alabama Drunk Driving Law
Super Bowl XLI A Celebration of Life Your Right To Remain Silent Attorney General Troy King Wins by a Landslide  
Facts About Money Montgomery Gets First African American Fire Chief Thomas, Means, Gillis, & Seay, P.C. and Medical Place Change
Christmas Party Season Urinary Incontinence The Voodoo Pot You Reap What You Sow
See No Evil An Exotic Pet Real Estate Value After a Murder or Suicide Ninety-Five Years Ago  
Griffin Buys Back His Boyhood Home Celebration of Life For Pauline Stephens Martin Control Your Anger Life Spans  
A Life Saving Message Preventing Type Two Diabetes Sears, Roebuck and Co. A Tribute To Mrs. Seay  
The Truth About Israel Guess Who's Coming To Dinner Unbelievable, Outrageous, and Shocking Good White Folks
The Fourth Of July Inside Your House Are We There Yet? Hang In There  
Stop Fussing And Start Loving Four More Years For Representative Alvin Holmes The Teenage Driver How Rich Are You?  
A Bonafide Genius The Deadly Blindspot Spring Break The Death of a Matriarch
In Memory of Lewis Williams Welcome Rev. Terry McCreary A Deadly Encounter With The Police You Can Find A Spouse  
First Black Parole Board Member Dies Wicked People Reflections On Black History Don't Miss Your Blessings
Sagging Pants It's Alright To Look Your Age Jeh Johnson's MLK Speech Gratitude and Thanksgiving
Curiosity Killed The Cat It's All Good The Office Christmas Party Bird Flu 
A Watershed  Experience Cockroaches Five Hundred Rental Houses Use of Deadly Force:  Mayor Bright Is Right
Teenage Drivers A Tribute To A Legend  Calhoun Superfoods Don't Be Afraid To Die
Five Friends  Throw Out The Frying Pan  A Mattress Made In Heaven A Remarkable Weekend
Jim Littleton Retires A Great Big Mess In "Nawlins" Keep Hope Alive All Honest Work Is Honorable
The Montgomery Public Library Dividing Lines Live To Be One Hundred Bethany Christian Academy 
Hurricane Dennis Luther Vandross Justice Harold D. Melton The Boogey Man Is Real
Little Black Sambo Finding A Job My Hyundai Confession  Roots and Wings
Think Like A Lawyer  Fernando Davilo  
A Rising Star		 All We Want Is Peace  A Rolls Royce For Debra
Breaking Bad Habits Legal Eagle Johnnie Cochran dead at 67 Living Wills The Sleep Over
Courthouse Shooting  Back Down Memory Lane Chris Rock Juvenile Violence
 Candauce "Candy"      Dominique Warner      1958-2005 A Tribute To Kathy Sawyer  The Extramarital Affair Bill Cosby Told the Truth:  Ouch!
God Is Not Asleep Happy New Year 2005 A Christmas Carol Fifty Years
Ron Brown A Tribute to Mrs. Anna Mae Nix Chitterlings A Hurricane to Remember 
Two Exceptional Appointees The Power to Accept Dexter Parsonage Museum Oxtails 
Inside Montgomery Alabama's Upper Class  The Twenty Year Promise Walking Humbly With God A Medical Miracle 
The Rumor Mill  Common Knowledge In Memory of Willie McQueen Hold On To Your Spouse 
Death of A Fat Man The Good Samaritan  The Word Nigger  The Talented Mr. Grimes
An Open Letter To Martha Stewart Aging Well Battered Men Nelson Mandela To Visit Montgomery, Alabama
WalMart's Customer Service Honey's Kitchen The Long Long Goodbye The Passion of the Christ
A Bridge Over Troubled Waters The Most Important Person in the World Dr. Abraham Davis The Lord is my Shepherd
And The Walls Came Tumbling Down If Cigarettes Killed Them, They Will Kill You, Too If These Walls Could Talk The Lord is my Shepherd
The Nagging Spouse High Speed Police Chases The State's Top Cop   A Birth of a Nation
Let Go And Let God  Thank You                                                                A Tribute To My Brother "Mann"
 Don't Slap the King
Moms Mabley

Sex Education

 The Holiday Blues  My Connection to the Father of Blue Grass:  Bill Monroe  

A Tribute To Wynton "Red"
 Blount 		 My Connection to Sammy Davis, Jr. Ma Pampo Siegfried & Roy  
Ophelia Put Down the fried chicken  White Hate Group Recruits in East Montgomery  A Raisin in The Sun  
Flying without wings First Flight The Homeless A reason to be thankful  
A trip to Niagra Gay Marriage Single Black Female Imitation  
Slum Lords A Tribute to Kirk Hatcher My Advice to Dawson Talented tenth  
Good Credit Aim High Twice as good Harvard University
Jealousy Soul Food Go for it  
Three Beautiful Women The Cheating Husband Good Maynard Red Blount  
 Greg's First Column Boy Scouts Caprice Biltmore House  
Judges Christmas Alexis Faith  
Sales Tax Fannie One Vote Morehouse Tragedy  
Wiggler ASU Pearl Bailey Dr. Benjamin Mays  
As a Man Thinketh Death Be Bold Ebonics  
Marrying Man Howard Thurman Wedding Diana Ross  
Millionaire Hospital Angel Win Friends  
Morehouse The Holiday Suicide Black & Happy  
It Made Me Want to Holler Governor Troy King Kamu Senator Shelby  
Thurbert Seven Year Itch Daddy King ...After Midnight  
Consider the Jew Bad Things...Good People Drivers License Letter from Bill  
GOD Billionaire Next Door Selena Stewart Super Bowl XXII  
Not What You Know... She Was Hot... The Grapevine A Perfect Score  
Savor the Experience No Gift to Give Dear Joni The Flu  
Porky Pig Montgomery Academy Thankful Gala of Galas  
Write a Book Abraham Lincoln Eisenhower Young Gifted & Black  
Big Head Birthday Ring Around the Collar  
Alabama the Beautiful Ava Gardner Amos 'n' Andy Bill Pryor  
Socrates Fool Diabetes Joneses  
         

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