Early this year I posted a link to the 'Emails' video by Memphis' Tennessee's BLUFF CITY VICE but I never linked to their new full BANGER of an album that came out in January.
I listen to this constantly. It'll definitely be in my top 20 favorite albums of 2024 -- and somewhere near the top of the list. These dudes make LEGIT electro-punk. This is some of my favorite kind of stuff (and the kind of stuff I write and make myself, actually).
In the summer of 1947, a woman walked into a drug store in Memphis, Tennessee, to drop off film to be developed when she realized she had one exposure left.
She noticed a young boy outside the drugstore and asked him to pose with his bicycle so she could finish the roll and turn it in.
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Today's the day! If you are in the area, please do stop by! 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. Come see my art and enjoy some wine and hors d'oeuvres. All art is for sale, and a percentage of the purchase goes to support MBG.
News outlets reporting that over 700 students and community members mobilized today in #Kentucky, again shutting down Kyle Rittenhouse after hundreds of students in did the same last week in #Memphis, #Tennessee. Rittenhouse speaking at Kent State next.
Today in Labor History: March 28, 1968: Martin Luther King led a march of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Police attacked the workers with mace and sticks. A 16-year old boy was shot. 280 workers were arrested. He was assassinated a few days later after speaking to the striking workers. The sanitation workers were mostly black. They worked for starvation wages under plantation like conditions, generally under racist white bosses. Workers could be fired for being one minute late or for talking back, and they got no breaks. Organizing escalated in the early 1960s and reached its peak in February, 1968, when two workers were crushed to death in the back of a garbage truck.
You're invited, and you're invited, and YOU'RE invited to my opening reception on Sunday, April 7. Memphis Botanic Garden, 750 Cherry Road, in Memphis, TN. 2:30 - 4:00. All art will be available for purchase, with a percent going to support the Garden.
#Memphis’ Desmond Bane with an interception and then a #Ledecky slam. Part of the #Nuggets’ third-quarter sloppiness. Nuggets 81, #Grizzlies 66, third quarter. #NBA@nba
#GOP media darling Kyle Rittenhouse who was acquitted after shooting 3 people, 1 fatally, during a #GeorgeFloyd protest in 2020, promptly scurried from a stage at University of #Memphis last night after he couldn't handle being booed for his responses to questions on #racism from a Black protestor at the event. Kudos to the Black student body at U of M!
One Tennessee father on the dangers of older rental properties with lead paint exposure: “(That house) ended up destroying our boy’s complete personality.” 🧪
Hundreds of Memphis-area kids are diagnosed with lead poisoning each year. Why aren’t more pediatricians testing for it? Here's what parents need to know about the warning signs and symptoms. (via MLK50) 🧪
Meet Ayden. He’s 8 and no longer speaks. He has tantrums when frustrated and does not play with other children at school. In 2019, his parents learned that his lead levels were 20 times the current federal level of concern. How did this happen? (via MLK50)
One doctor said Ayden would ‘come around.’ Another diagnosed him with autism and ADHD. What his parents didn’t know was that their once bubbly child disappeared into a looming darkness right in their home and lead poisoning was likely to blame. (via MLK50: Justice through Journalism)