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!

 

Academy Awards Buy Insurance  Is Tiger Woods Gay? 
Debt Relief A Tribute to Richard Jordan Spring Break 2010
The Haiti Earthquake The Holiday Wisdom
Balaam's Donkey www.office depot.com The Blind Side Porky Pig II
Forever Young Empty Sleeves It's About Time Sophia Bracy Harris:  An American Hero
Death of a Father Drink Up The Incredible Sun The Wonderful World of Oz
Dr. Ralph J. Bryson Jeh Charles Johnson on the events surrounding 911 Griffin Properties Suffer Major Fire Our Ancestors
To Die To Sleep Working Until You Drop Morehouse Bound The Greg and Deb Griffin Foundation
 Harriott II Two Great Men Have Died  Historians Reveal that Abraham Lincoln was Half Black Teddy Pendergrass
Are You Ready? Dr. Percy Lavon Julian St. Jude the Morehouse of Montgomery The Last Days
Save Your Marriage Lowes of Wetumpka Secrets Spring Fever
Mrs. Bob Riley for Governor Monroe Street Tour I Loved Lucy The Unity Breakfast Speech
Guardian Angels  When Two Elephants Fight Abolish Racial Categorization

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

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

Sex Education

 The Holiday Blues A Birth of a Nation

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

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