The Mid-South Tribune “Where there no vision, the people will perish.” www.blackinformationhighway.com June 2021- Juneteenth Tri-State Areas of Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi comp. Special Edition: Juneteenth 2021 Editorial: HR-1 uses racism to advance socialism and communism thru Black community; Congress must vote No! Editor’s Note: The follow- “What Shall We Teach Our Children about Slavery?” by than that are moderate Demo- cialist and Third-World nations ing editorial was initially Dr. Marvin A. McMickle, Ph.D. (From MST’s 1999 crats who will stand by and let are not emptying their jails and We Endorse published on March 30, archives)... see page 4 this happen in the name of a prisons with a nod and a wink to 2021. party which is in practice now go to America? (One mustn’t for- Vernon Jones *** See what Black Lives Matter had on its website BE- the Democrat Socialist Party. get that during the 1960’s Cuban By Ms. Arelya J. Mitchell, FORE THE BIG SCRUB ... see page 2 Furthermore, the border crisis crisis, Castro emptied his prisons for Governor has boiled to a point where and jails for the thugs, murderers Publisher/Editor-in-Chief “NRA Celebrates 150 Years of Protecting the Second The Mid-South Tribune America’s military bases are and misfits to head for America of Georgia Amendment” by David A. Keene ... see page 4 being used to house illegal immi- along with those who were gen- Read. This is what we have done grants. Why use military bases uinely being persecuted). Why “Biden’s Open Border Policies Will Bring Chaos to Ten- Buckhead, a wealthy predomi- with the 700-plus pages of the which should be outside the would the Democrat Party be this nantly White community of At- HR-1 Bill the Democrat Party nessee Communities,” by U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn realm of allowing in young male reckless or is it planned reckless- lanta, Georgia, has decided it wants to pass. We have re-read see page 4 illegals who could be soldier ma- ness? Cong. Nancy Pelosi has al- wants to secede from the city due certain passages of this bill Full text of the Emancipation Proclamation terial coming from any hostile ready embraced a Congressman to a systemic crimewave. Buck- nation and/or hostile entity which who has been caught red-handed which Cong. Nancy Pelosi, see page 3 head represents a mindset which Cong. Bernie Sanders, Cong. is anti-American? Any person (pun intended) sleeping with a should be no surprise, and it has those entities which are supposed James Clyburn, and their cohorts to Joe Biden within his 100-day with an ounce of sense knows Chinese spy; yet, Pelosi, put him nothing to do with race or color. to be representative of the Black are ushering in at lightspeed to reign of advancing socialism. that criminals and thugs are also on a committee which oversees That mindset is innate in every community are advocating for get signed, sealed and delivered Big Tech, Big Corporations, crossing over into America. Who America’s foreign policy. She human being. It’s called self- unions, and worse of all, even HR-1. Even more disturbing is to say that leaders in these so- Please see page 4 preservation which translates into ‘feeling safe.’ With the insanity of defund-the- Time for the National Museum of African American History police movements and the infil- tration of Critical Race Theory (CRT) into schools to clandes- and Culture to recognize The Honorable Clarence Thomas tinely re-segregate children, A self-described ‘transnational feminist’ Opal Tometi, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, is featured in Smithsonian’s National Mu- Buckhead is being joined by other concerned individuals, par- seum of African American History and Culture “for her historic contributions”; yet, America’s second Black Supreme Court Justice is ents and communities from ac- denied his due and respect. Time for the Smithsonian to do the ‘just’ thing. ross the economic spectrum that are simply fed up. They want Moresi, curator of the Museum. exemplify these values more By Ms. Arelya J. Mitchell safety. They want sanity. They (See the letter on page 5 of this courageously than Justice Publisher/Editor-in-Chief want leadership. edition). The letter begins: “As Thomas.” The Mid-South Tribune At this juncture, Georgia needs Black Americans, we admire We can suggest to the New Jour- courageous leadership. That ney PAC that Dr. Moresi should Before the National Museum of leadership is in former Georgia read Justice Thomas’ biography, African American History and See the New Journey State Representative Vernon “My Grandfather’s Son” which Culture opened, I was asked to PAC full text letter on Jones who was courageous was a Number 1 New York review the galley of “Dream A Juneteenth page 5 World Anew,” the companion Times Bestseller. This biography Please see page 5 is a page turner, and it exem- book for this historic museum Clarence Thomas’s fortitude and plifies a value system of what the which would be located in Wash- power. We are amazed by all he Juneteenth Black community used to es- ington, D.C. I reviewed the book overcame, from a broken house- pouse. We doubt very seriously if and gave it a very good review. hold to childhood poverty, to be- BLM can claim such a value sys- becomes In fact, I enjoyed reading it be- come an Associate Justice of the tem. Yet, the very fact that here it cause it was a work which served United States Supreme Court… is in 2021 and Justice Thomas national as a historical reference of Black Among the pillars of the Na- still has not been included in the history and American history. tional Museum of African Amer- The Honorable Clarence Thomas Museum (which is part of the holiday However, what struck me was ican History and Culture prestigious Smithsonian family the omission of America’s sec- (NMAAHC) is the noble mission At press time, Juneteenth be- Thomas would be in that one, as seum opened, Justice Thomas of museums) is disgraceful and a ond African American Supreme of exploring ‘what it means to be came a National Holiday. We, I knew all of Black history could would be included. But the disservice to the nation, Ameri- Court Justice, the Honorable an American and share how too, recall how President Donald not fit into that one volume. Still, Black Lives Matter (BLM) was can history, and Black History. Clarence Thomas. I didn’t like American values like resiliency, J. Trump proposed that June- I thought Justice Thomas should included, and Justice was nixed. This disrespect piles on another this glaring omission, but I optimism, and spirituality are re- teenth become a national holiday have been included in this first A few months back, we received ‘high tech lynching’ of Justice thought that maybe another vol- one. But be that as it may, I a letter from the New Journey flected in African American his- over a year ago with neither re- ume would come and Justice Thomas. thought that maybe once the mu- PAC sent to Dr. Michele Gates tory and culture.’ Few Americans Please see page 5 sponse and nor support from the historical pro-slavery Democrat Party. The reality of President Trump’s proposal has come to fruition. Juneteenth celebrations are not new in the Black com- No Coke! No Woke! munity, and now its historical significance will be recognized nationally. Drink Pepsi or any other cola! The RNC Chairwoman Rona McDaniel released the following on June 18, 2021: “Although Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Procla- mation more than two years ear- lier, it wasn’t until this day in 1865 that Union General Gordon Granger was able to get to Gal- veston, Texas to let those re- maining enslaved Americans know the Civil War was over and all slaves were free. The Re- publican Party will always be Congratulations to soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo for putting his Coke bottles out of sight and out of mind at a proudly connected to Juneteenth press conference. After all, why support a multi-billion-dollar company which thought nothing of destroying Black- because of President Lincoln’s owned businesses, minority businesses and small businesses when it supported the move of the MLB All-Star Game leadership, and we enthusiasti- from Atlanta to Denver? With his great gesture, Ronaldo took away some cool billions from Woke Coke! Instead of cally welcome its adoption as our newest national holiday after having seminars for its White employees to be ‘less White’, Coke executives should concentrate on being No Woke. President Trump called for it last Coke and MLB should make restitution to these businesses. We say No Coke! No Woke! Drink Pepsi or another year. Mindful of the special im- cola! portance Juneteenth has for Black Americans, it should also Below are portions from the lawsuit Job Creators Network (JCN) filed against Major League Baseball (MLB) be a source of pride for Repub- and the MLB Players Association: licans and every American. The RNC will continue our efforts to 1. The damages resulting from the cancellation of the All-Star Game in Atlanta are staggering. More than 8,000 hotel expand engagement with the reservations were canceled; revenues from ticket sales and stadium food by the more than 41,000 expected to attend Black community because our party remains the party of free- the events at Truist Park were lost. Past MLB All-Star events have generated staggering sums for the host communities. dom and opportunity. On June- Drink your New York City enjoyed $190 million in economic activity as a result of hosting the 2013 All-Star Game. teenth we vow to never forget favorite 2. Between March 26 and April 2, 2021, Defendants plotted, coordinated, and executed a common plan and conspiracy the evils of slavery while we store brand! to cancel the All-Star Game in Atlanta with the intent to injure and deprive residents and businesses of Atlanta, Georgia continue the work of perfecting of their Constitutional rights protected under not only “equal protection of the laws” but also “equal privileges and our Union. Our new federal holi- day is a reminder of what we can immunities under the laws.” achieve when we appeal to our nation’s highest ideals and come This is an Editorial from The Mid-South Tribune. together as Americans.” June 2021 The Mid-South Tribune Juneteenth page 2 For the Record... Before the Big Scrub of its website, here’s the real truth on what was on the BLM website which was Marxist, anti-male, anti-White male, anti-family, anti-father

Editor’s Note: Below is the full “We make our spaces family- We disrupt the Western-pre- “We foster a queer‐affirming lence is in Black America, we Opal is being featured in the text of what was on the Black friendly and enable parents to scribed nuclear family structure network. When we gather, we must view this epidemic through Smithsonian’s new National Mu- Lives Matter’s website before fully participate with their requirement by supporting each do so with the intention of a lens of race, gender, sexual seum for African American His- they scrubbed it to hide the children. We dismantle the other as extended families and freeing ourselves from the orientation, and gender identity. tory and Culture (NMAAHC) for truth. patriarchal practice that re- “villages” that collectively care tight grip of heteronormative her historic contributions. Opal Tometi *** quires mothers to work ‘dou- for one another, especially our thinking, or rather, the belief Prior to becoming Executive Di- Co-Founder rector, Opal worked as Co-Direc- ble shifts’ so that they can children, to the degree that moth- that all in the world are het- What We [Black Lives Matter] ers, parents, and children are Opal Tometi is a New York-based tor and Communications Director mother in private even as they erosexual (unless s/he or they Believe comfortable. Nigerian-American writer, strate- at BAJI. Her contributions in- Four years ago, what is now participate in public justice We foster a queer‐affirming net- disclose otherwise).” gist, and community organizer. clude leading organizing efforts known as the Black Lives Matter work.” work. When we gather, we do so BLM Global Network hosted a Opal is a co-founder of #Black- for the first ever Black-led rally national call to update the com- LivesMatter. The historic politi- for immigrant justice and the first Global Network began to organ- Every day, we recommit to heal- with the intention of freeing our- munity on what’s next post-21 cal project was launched in the Congressional briefing on Black ize. It started out as a chapter- ing ourselves and each other, and selves from the tight grip of het- Savage release. wake of the murder of Trayvon immigrants in Washington DC. based, member-led organization to co-creating alongside com- eronormative thinking, or rather, Martin to explicitly combat im- Additionally, she coordinated whose mission was to build local rades, allies, and family a culture the belief that all in the world are Note: Founded by Three Black plicit bias and anti-Black racism BAJI’s work as launch partner power and to intervene when vi- where each person feels seen, heterosexual (unless s/he or they Women and to protect and affirm the with Race Forward’s historic olence was inflicted on Black heard, and supported. disclose otherwise). Patrisse Khan-Cullors beauty and dignity of all Black Drop the I-Word campaign, communities by the state and We acknowledge, respect, and We cultivate an intergenerational Co-Founder and Strategic Advi- lives. Opal is credited with cre- working with the campaign to vigilantes. celebrate differences and com- and communal network free from sor ating the online platforms and raise awareness about the impor- In the years since, we’ve com- monalities. ageism. We believe that all Patrisse Khan-Cullors is an artist, initiating the social media tance of respectful language and mitted to struggling together and We work vigorously for freedom people, regardless of age, show organizer, and freedom fighter strategy during the project's early history through the lens of the to imagining and creating a and justice for Black people and, up with the capacity to lead and from Los Angeles, CA. Co- days. The campaign has grown Great Migration, the Civil Rights world free of anti-Blackness, by extension, all people. learn. founder of Black Lives Matter, into a national network of ap- Movement and current migration where every Black person has We intentionally build and nur- We embody and practice justice, and Founder of Dignity and proximately 40 chapters. In 2016, of the Black diaspora. the social, economic, and politi- ture a beloved community that is liberation, and peace in our en- Power Now she is a New York in recognition of their contrib- Opal has been active in social cal power to thrive. bonded together through a beau- gagements with one another. Times Best Selling Author, Ful- ution to human rights, Opal Tom- movements for over a decade. Black Lives Matter began as a tiful struggle that is restorative, bright scholar, popular public eti and the #BlackLivesMatter She is a student of liberation the- call to action in response to state- not depleting. Timeline speaker, and Sydney Peace Prize co-founders received an honorary ology and her practice is in the sanctioned violence and anti- We are unapologetically Black in • Monday, February 4, 2019: awardee. Patrisse recently toured doctorate degree, BET's Black tradition of Ella Baker, informed Black racism. Our intention from our positioning. In affirming that Black Lives Matter Co-Founder her multimedia performance art Girls Rock Community Change by Stuart Hall, bell hooks and the very beginning was to con- Black Lives Matter, we need not “We are self-reflexive and do piece, "POWER: From the Agent Award, recognition among Black Feminist thinkers. She has nect Black people from all over qualify our position. To love and the work required to disman- Mouths of the Occupied," a grip- the world's fifty greatest leaders been published in the Oxford the world who have a shared de- desire freedom and justice for tle cisgender privilege and ping performance piece high- by Fortune and POLITICO mag- Dictionary of African Biogra- sire for justice to act together in ourselves is a prerequisite for uplift Black trans folk, espe- lighting the impact of mass azines, and the first ever Social phies, was #10 on the 2015 Root their communities. The impetus wanting the same for others. criminalization and state vio- Movement of the Year Award 100 list and she was named a for that commitment was, and We see ourselves as part of the cially Black trans women lence in Black communities ac- from the Webbys. “New Civil Rights Leader” by still is, the rampant and delib- global Black family, and we are who continue to be dispro- ross the United States. Opal is currently at the helm of the Los Angeles Times in 2015 erate violence inflicted on us by aware of the different ways we portionately impacted by the state. the country's leading Black or- and ESSENCE magazine in are impacted or privileged as trans-antagonistic violence.” Enraged by the death of Trayvon Alicia Garza ganization for immigrant rights, 2014, for her cutting edge move- Black people who exist in differ- Co-Founder Martin and the subsequent ac- Patrisse Cullors sponsored a pe- the Black Alliance for Just Im- ment building work which ent parts of the world. Alicia Garza is an Oakland- quittal of his killer, George Zim- tition that has received over migration (BAJI). Founded in We are guided by the fact that all based organizer, writer, public merman, and inspired by the 450,000 signatures and led a so- 2006, BAJI is a national organi- A transnational feminist, Opal Black lives matter, regardless of speaker, and freedom dreamer 31-day takeover of the Florida cial media campaign to zation that educates and advo- supports and helps shape the actual or perceived sexual iden- who is currently the Special Proj- State Capitol by POWER U and #Free21Savage. cates to further immigrant rights tity, gender identity, gender ex- ects Director for the National strategic work of Pan African the Dream Defenders, we took to • Tuesday, February 5, 2019: The and racial justice together with pression, economic status, Domestic Workers Alliance, the Network in Defense of Mi- the streets. A year later, we set #Free21Savage consortium African-American, Afro-Latino, ability, disability, religious be- nation’s leading voice for dignity grant Rights, and the Black out together on the Black Lives called on Elected Officials to in- African, and Caribbean immi- liefs or disbeliefs, immigration and fairness for the millions of Immigration Network (BIN) Matter Freedom Ride to Fergu- vestigate the excessive force and grant communities. As the Ex- status, or location. domestic workers in the United international and national son, in search of justice for Mike abuse ICE uses against immi- ecutive Director at BAJI, Opal We make space for transgender States. Garza, along with Opal formations respectively, ded- Brown and all of those who have grants and to dismantle the op- collaborates with staff and com- brothers and sisters to participate Tometi and Patrisse Khan-Cul- icated to people of African been torn apart by state-sanc- pressive systems and policies munities in Los Angeles, Phoe- and lead. lors, also co-founded Black tioned violence and anti-Black that target Black immigrants. nix, New York, Oakland, descent. She has presented at We are self-reflexive and do the Lives Matter, a globally recog- racism. Forever changed, we re- • Representative Hank Johnson Washington DC, and com- the United Nations and par- work required to dismantle cis- nized organizing project that fo- turned home and began building (D-GA; 4th District) wrote the munities throughout the Southern ticipated with the UN’s Global gender privilege and uplift Black cuses on combating anti-Black the infrastructure for the Black Immigration Judge advocating states. The organization helped Forum on Migration and trans folk, especially Black trans state-sanctioned violence and the Lives Matter Global Network, for the release of 21 Savage. win family reunification visas for Commission on the Status of women who continue to be dis- oppression of all Black people. which, even in its infancy, has • Sunday, February 10, 2019: Ac- Haitians displaced by the 2010 proportionately impacted by Since the rise of the BLM move- Women. become a political home for tivist demonstration outside of earthquake. BAJI is an award- ment, Garza has become a pow- Opal is being featured in the many. “We disrupt the Western-pre- Staples Center on Grammy Day, winning organization with rec- erful voice in the media. Her Smithsonian’s new National Ferguson helped to catalyze a scribed nuclear family struc- demanding the release of 21 Sav- ognition by leading institutions articles and interviews have been Museum for African American movement to which we’ve all ture requirement by age. The debut of a 100-foot bill- featured in Time, Mic, The Opal holds a Bachelor of History and Culture helped give life. Organizers who board urging the public to sign supporting each other as ex- Guardian, Elle.com, Essence, Arts degree in History and a (NMAAHC) for her historic call this network home have the petition on 7th and Vine in tended families and “vil- Democracy Now!, and The New Masters of Arts degree in contributions. ousted anti-Black politicians, Los Angeles. lages” that collectively care York Times. Communication and Advo- won critical legislation to benefit • Monday, February 11, 2019: for one another, especially In addition, her work has re- cacy. The daughter of Nige- bridges immigrant and human Black lives, and changed the Black Lives Matter Global Net- our children, to the degree ceived numerous recognitions, rian immigrants, she grew up rights work to the ever-growing terms of the debate on Blackness work led a public call-to-action that mothers, parents, and including being named on The Black liberation movement. She around the world. Through to make phone calls to Sean Gal- in Phoenix, Arizona. She cur- children are comfortable.” Root's 2016 list of 100 African was a lead architect of the Black- movement and relationship lagher, ICE Field Director. rently resides in the Republic American achievers and in- Brown Coalition of Arizona and building, we have also helped trans-antagonistic violence. • Tuesday, February 12, 2019: of Brooklyn, New York where fluencers, the 2016 Glamour was involved in grassroots or- catalyze other movements and We build a space that affirms The BLM Global Network led she loves riding her single Women of the Year Award, the ganizing against SB 1070 with shifted culture with an eye to- Black women and is free from coalition released a powerful speed bike and collecting Af- 2016 Marie Claire New Guard the Alto Arizona campaign. Opal ward the dangerous impacts of sexism, misogyny, and environ- PSA produced by Mic.com in rican art. Award, and as a Community is a former Case Manager for anti-Blackness. ments in which men are centered. support of 21 Savage. The PSA, Change Agent at the 2016 BET's across the country. survivors of domestic violence We practice empathy. We engage “21 Ways You Can Be Detained Black Girls Rock Awards. A transnational feminist, Opal and still provides community These are the results of our col- comrades with the intent to learn If You’re Undocumented in Most important, as a queer Black supports and helps shape the education on the issue. lective efforts. about and connect with their America,” featured Common, woman, Garza's leadership and strategic work of Pan African Opal holds a Bachelor of Arts de- The Black Lives Matter Global contexts. Kendrick Lamar, Mike Tyson, work challenge the misconcep- Network in Defense of Migrant gree in History and a Masters of Network is as powerful as it is We make our spaces family- Yara Shahidi, J. Cole, Post Ma- tion that only cisgender Black Rights, and the Black Immigra- Arts degree in Communication because of our membership, our friendly and enable parents to lone, TI, J.Cole, DJ Khaled, men encounter police and state tion Network (BIN) international and Advocacy. The daughter of partners, our supporters, our fully participate with their chil- SZA, Jesse Williams, America violence. While the tragic deaths and national formations respec- Nigerian immigrants, she grew staff, and you. Our continued dren. We dismantle the patriar- Ferrara, and more. of Trayvon Martin and Mike tively, dedicated to people of Af- up in Phoenix, Arizona. She cur- commitment to liberation for all chal practice that requires • The #Free21Savage consortium Brown were catalysts for the rican descent. She has presented rently resides in the Republic of Black people means we are con- mothers to work “double shifts” led a rally in Atlanta and a peti- emergence of the BLM move- at the United Nations and partic- Brooklyn, New York where she tinuing the work of our ancestors so that they can mother in private tion drop to an ICE Field Office. ment, Garza is clear: In order to ipated with the UN’s Global loves riding her single speed bike and fighting for our collective even as they participate in public • Thursday, February 14, 2019: truly understand how devastating Forum on Migration and Com- and collecting African art. freedom because it is our duty. justice work. UndocuBlack Network and and widespread this type of vio- mission on the Status of Women. For the Record: May’s job numbers show that Black unemployment is high under Joe Biden; Under President Donald Trump pre-pandemic Black unemployment was at historical low

WASHINGTON, D.C. - “Joe reinforces the need for the Says No Need to Apply of 2019, the Black unemploy- If Black America is going to oIn April, the economy added Biden and Democrats’ failed pol- Biden-Harris Administration to •May’s jobs report shows the ment rate was 6.1 percent experience the record low un- only 278,000 jobs, well below icies have resulted in another address the jobs crisis they Biden economy is faltering and •Businesses are willing to offer employment experienced economists’ expectations and the month where the economy fell created because of failed Demo- failing Black America’s workers higher wages, but the labor force under the previous admin- biggest miss in over 20 years short of expectations while Black-Owned Small Busi- oThere are still 9.3 million unem- participation rate is shrinking – istration, the current admin- •20,000 construction jobs were Americans see the prices for gas, ployed American workers showing that employers want lost in May nesses Put Up Now Hiring istration needs to take a page groceries and other essentials oNearly 8 million Americans workers, but workers are not •5,800 retail jobs were lost in Signs While the Biden Ad- out of the Republican eco- skyrocket. Biden and Democrats ministration Says No Need to were unable to work in May be- coming back May are holding back Black Ameri- cause their employer was closed oBiden’s “enhanced” unemploy- nomic playbook and put the If Black America is going to Apply. cans from reentering the work- or had lost business because of ment benefits are holding back people first and stop squan- experience the record low unem- force and, therefore, holding crat policies that incentivize the pandemic the economy and incentivizing dering the recovery they in- ployment experienced under the back our economy. Thankfully, Americans to stay home, cou- o1.5 million U.S. mothers have Americans not to go back to herited. previous administration, the cur- states with Republican leadership pled with closed schools which fallen out of the workforce, and work 559,000 jobs, below economists’ rent administration needs to take are leading the recovery and are prevent parents from returning many working moms are forced At least 25 states – all with Re- expectations for the second a page out of the Republican eco- open for business,” stated RNC to work. Biden and Democrats to stay home because schools publican governors – have an- straight month nomic playbook and put the Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel failed policies are still not bene- have not re-opened nounced they will end this oEconomists had predicted people first and stop squandering RNC National Spokesperson fiting the Black community.” •The Black unemployment rate is harmful policy, helping Ameri- 671,000 new jobs, and many had the recovery they inherited. and Director of Black Media Af- Black-Owned Small Busi- still above 9 percent cans get back to work and busi- expected an even higher number, Email news and photos to fairs made the following state- nesses Put Up Now Hiring Signs oDuring the Trump Administra- nesses hire making this especially dis- [email protected] ment: “Today’s jobs report While the Biden Administration tion before the pandemic in May •The economy added back just appointing

Juneteenth is about remembering the past not living in it or using it as an excuse not to make economic progress. June 2021 The Mid-South Tribune Juneteenth page 3 Tennessee Dept. of Tourist Development offers The Emancipation complimentary youth tickets for WGC- Proclamation By Abraham Lincoln, President of the United FedEx St. Jude Invitational for family fun States of America

MEMPHIS, Tennessee – It’s partment of Tourist Development nament,” said executive director The 2021 event marks Mem- I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and summertime and those looking to provide complimentary youth Darrell Smith. “With partners phis’ third year hosting a World Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby PRO- for an activity the whole family tickets for ages 15 and under, like the Tennessee Department of Golf Championships event and CLAIM and DECLARE that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be can enjoy should look no further making the event a great family Tourist Development, the WGC- courtesy of the Tennessee De- prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the Constitutional than the World Golf Champion- experience and attracting visitors FedEx St. Jude Invitational is partment of Tourist Development relation between the United States and the people thereof, in which ships-FedEx St. Jude Invita- to our great state of Tennessee. able to allow families the chance children ages 15 and under are States that relation is, or may be, suspended or disturbed; that it is my tional. The world’s best golfers “Over the last 15 months, fam- to reestablish those traditions and admitted free with a ticketed purpose upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the return to TPC Southwind, Aug. ilies have had many yearly tradi- spend a day at TPC Southwind adult (applies to grounds access adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free 2-8, and the tournament is team- tions suspended, including the whole family can appreciate only). Daily grounds tickets start acceptance or rejection of all the Slave States so called, the people ing up with the Tennessee De- Memphis’ professional golf tour- and enjoy.” at just $30 along with access to whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States, and all public fan areas, which fea- which States may then have voluntarily adopted or thereafter may ture a variety of best-in-class voluntarily adopt the immediate or gradual abolishment of Slavery amenities and experiences. NFL greats Eddie George and Deion within their respective limits; and that the effort to colonize persons Whether you are a hard-core golf of African descent with their consent upon their continent or else- fan, a sports fan, or just looking where with the previously obtained consent of the Governments ex- Sanders face off as coaches in 32nd to get outside for a day with the isting there, will be continue; that on the first day of January, in the kids, the WGC-FedEx St. Jude year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all per- Invitational has something for Southern Heritage Classic Presented sons held as slaves within any State, or any designated part of a State, everyone. the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, “It’s an honor for Tennessee and shall be thenceforward and forever free, and the Executive Govern- by FedEx; Tickets are now on sale the vibrant city of Memphis to be ment of the United States, including the military and naval authority home to this global event, and MEMPHIS, TN --Tickets to the Southern Heritage Classic etmaster.com or charged by thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and we’re excited to partner with the highly anticipated 32nd Southern Founder Fred Jones says phone at 1-800-745-3000. will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invita- Heritage Classic presented by Southern Heritage Classic efforts they may make for their actual freedom; that the Executive the new coaches are a win- tional and deliver an unforgetta- FedEx are now on sale. The an- Founder Fred Jones says the new will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate win for everyone. “Coach ble experience to our youth,” nual face-off between long-time coaches are a win-win for every- the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof re- Eddie George and Coach said Commissioner Mark Ezell, rivals Tennessee State University one. “Coach Eddie George and spectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States, and the Deion Sanders leading two Tennessee Department of Tourist and Jackson State University is Coach Deion Sanders leading fact that any State, or the people thereof shall on that day be in good HBCU football teams is a Development. “We know once Saturday, September 11, 2021, at two HBCU football teams is a faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members wonderful boost for the they come, they’ll want to come the Liberty Bowl Memorial Sta- wonderful boost for the universi- chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters back year after year bringing new dium. Kickoff is at 6 p.m. This universities and HBCUs ties and HBCUs everywhere, but of such State shall have participated shall in the absence of strong fans to both the sport and to our year’s Classic also features two everywhere, but it’s also it’s also great for the Classic. countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such great state.” retired NFL greats as head great for the Classic. After After COVID-19 caused us to State and the people thereof have not been in rebellion against the coaches. Tennessee State’s COVID-19 caused us to cancel last year, I couldn’t have “It’s an honor for Tennessee United States. Coach Eddie George and Jackson cancel last year, I couldn’t asked for a better way to return and the vibrant city of Mem- That attention is hereby called to an act of Congress entitled State’s Coach Deion Sanders in 2021. It’s an unexpected but have asked for a better way phis to be home to this global “An act to make an additional article of war,” approved March 13, have added a new layer of enthu- to return in 2021. It’s an welcome surprise and we are 1862, and which act is in the words and figures following: siasm surrounding one of the going to make sure everything is event, and we’re excited to unexpected but welcome partner with the WGC-FedEx Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives year’s most epic HBCU football epic. I look forward to safely see- of the United States of America in Congress assembled: That hereafter surprise and we are going St. Jude Invitational and de- games. Fans are encouraged to ing familiar faces and new ones the following shall be promulgated as an additional article of war, for get their game tickets early. They to make sure everything is too. This is going to be the hot- liver an unforgettable experi- epic.” the government of the army of the United States, and shall be obeyed can be purchased online at Tick- ence to our youth,” said and observed as such: Please see page 12 Commissioner Mark Ezell, Article. All Officers or persons in the military or naval serv- Tennessee Department of University of Memphis football Tourist Development. “We Please see Juneteenth page 12 know once they come, they’ll want to come back year after heads to full capacity for new year bringing new fans to both the sport and to our “The Cause is Greater Than I.” great state.” season; Tickets are now on sale -Woody Williams- With 18 holes and 240 acres of MEMPHIS, TN. – In accordance County Health Department in "We are very much looking property at TPC Southwind, with Shelby County Health De- navigating the challenges of the MEMPHIS, Tenn. — University of Memphis President forward to welcoming all of there is endless space for chil- partment Directive No. 21, COVID-19 pandemic over the M. David Rudd will host World War II’s last living Medal our fans back to games in the dren and families to explore, play Memphis Athletics has an- past 15 months, and we will con- fall," Memphis Director of and enjoy some fresh air and of Honor recipient, Woody Williams, at 2 p.m. on June nounced it is proceeding with tinue to stay apprised of any new Athletics Laird Veatch said. time away from the screen. Fam- 26 in the UofM’s Maxine A. Smith University Center. plans to operate its venues at full developments and work closely "We appreciate the guidance ilies can stop by The Pit, which capacity in the upcoming 2021- with our partners to operate our Fighting at the Battle of Iwo Jima, 97-year-old Williams of the Shelby County Health features barbecue staples from 22 athletic year. venues safely." will recount his flame-throwing actions in WWII in a Central BBQ, The Commissary, This includes Liberty Bowl Me- Department in navigating the Season tickets for the 2021 one-on-one interview with Rudd followed by a conver- HOG WILD and The Rendez- morial Stadium, FedExForum challenges of the COVID-19 football season start at just $99, vous, or relax, refresh, and enjoy sation about the mission of the Hershel “Woody” Wil- and Elma Roane Fieldhouse, pandemic over the past 15 and with the Tigers coming off a an idyllic backyard setting at the liams Medal of Honor Foundation to honor Gold Star along with Larry O. Finch Center months, and we will continue record seventh-straight bowl ap- TruGreen Backyard featuring and the venues located on Park to stay apprised of any new pearance more than half of avail- Families across our country who have paid the ultimate fun for the whole family. Fans Avenue Campus. At the Liberty able tickets are reduced in price. sacrifice. developments and work are encouraged to follow the Bowl, fans will not be required Memphis' seven home games in closely with our partners to WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invita- to wear masks outdoors, rather 2021 include longtime SEC rival operate our venues safely." tional on Facebook, Twitter, or Williams said it’s those — the ones who died protecting only in indoor common areas, Mississippi State (Sept. 18) and ward to welcoming all of our Instagram Spectators can review him — who really deserve the honor. "This medal doesn’t which is subject to change as the American Athletic Conference fans back to games in the fall," the PGA TOUR’s Health and season approaches. Additional foes Navy (Oct. 14), SMU (Nov. belong to me,” said Williams. “It belongs to them be- Memphis Director of Athletics Safety plan for ticketed spec- information will be available in 6) and East Carolina (Nov. 13). cause they gave their lives for me. I am simply the care- Laird Veatch said. "We appreci- tators by visiting the coming months. Season tickets can be purchased taker of this Medal.” ate the guidance of the Shelby PGATOUR.com/knowbefore- "We are very much looking for- Please see page 12 yougo. June 2021 The Mid-South Tribune Juneteenth page 4 Editorial From Credo of The Mid-South Tribune The Mid-South HR-1 advances socialism and and the Tribune’s 1999 communism thru the Black Black Information Highway Archives community; Congress, vote no! By Mr. Frederick Douglass, from front page Editorof the What shall North Star, an African American Newspaper has yet to explain “why” because Both of BLM and Antifa are we teach our (1845) Democrats have not bothered to foot soldiers in the army of children ask her “why.” American socialism. BLM The Democrat Party is getting has already stated that it is a If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet de- about bolder and bolder to the point of Marxist organization (a openly trying to overturn state preciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want the FACT it scrubbed from its slavery? elections by getting rid of two ocean without the awful thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of Republican congressmen who al- website) and is anti-Black its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be By Marvin A. McMickle, ready have been elected and duly family. If America’s White both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without demand.” Ph.D. certified by their state legisla- populace was as racist and June 13, 1999 tures to serve in the U.S. Con- white supremacist as BLM Antioch Baptist Church gress. But why wouldn’t the and Antifa would like for us Cleveland, Ohio Democrats come out in open de- to believe, Whites could have Special to fiance? After all, if a judicial sys- wiped out the Black com- NRA celebrates 150 years protecting The Mid-South Tribune tem didn’t give a damn about munity with the same commit- following the Rule of Law as far ment as Hitler did Germany’s America’s Second Amendment rights No issue seems to have become as state legislatures are con- as controversial within the Afri- Jewish citizens. and later U.S. President Ulysses cerned, why should the Demo- Who could have guessed in can American community as de- crat Party? S. Grant, and another of the sadly, the Black church dare not 1871, when the founders of ciding whether or not to talk to Joe Biden in his first press con- Union’s greatest generals, Phil question HR-1, the Democrats’ the National Rifle Association our children about the sad and ference on Thursday, March 25, Sheridan. immigration policies, or anything incorporated their new group painful history of our people in 2021 said flat out there will not They were concerned that too whatsoever with the adjective or in New York, that the political this country. How much, if any at be a Republican Party in the next many of their mostly urban fel- noun ‘Democrat’ attached to it. leaders of the Empire State all, should we tell them about presidential election in 2024. low citizens were losing the fa- Besides, Biden had no problem would dedicate themselves to distant forebears? For the longest Biden was neither questioned nor miliarity with firearms that was a in saying that if you are not Dem- time, black people have not called out on this statement by a the association’s destruction part of the American character ocrat, “you ain’t Black” because wanted to talk about the years we press which continues to serve as By David A. Keene a century and a half later? Or and the nation’s cultural heritage. he knew it was true and whatever spent in slavery or under the re- no more than the propaganda arm that a newly elected president The new association fostered he said then and will in the fu- strictions of Jim Crow laws. It of what is now the Democrat So- The NRA was founded in 1871 of the United States would firearms competence, ran com- ture, Blacks will not question but was as if we were too ashamed of cialist Party. to teach Americans to shoot, but pledge even before being petitive matches and provided will follow with massa-obe- that episode, and did not want to Also, Biden and his party over time, as some moved to take technical information and safety dience a party which seeks to dis- sworn into office in 2021 to think about it, much less talk members have indicated that he away our Second Amendment training to all. For nearly a cen- place it with socio-economic “defeat” the NRA? about it with our children. can use an Executive Order to rights, the NRA also started using tury, these were the primary genocide in the name of ‘Equity’ would pledge even before being This feeling is as old as the birth wipe out the Second Amendment the First Amendment to protect functions of the NRA. Genera- (a more extreme of what used to sworn into office in 2021 to “de- of the first generation of black of the United States Constitution. the Second. Both of these parts of tions of Americans became fa- be Affirmative Action which was feat” the NRA? people born after slavery in the If such is allowed, what is to stop the NRA’s mission remain criti- miliar with firearms and the based on the concept of ‘oppor- At that time, no one seriously Reconstruction era. Belinda Hur- Executive Orders from wiping cal today. shooting sports through NRA tunity’ and not on punishing questioned the wisdom of the na- mece has edited a collection of out any amendment? Biden and Who could have guessed in programs. Whites for being born White). tion’s Founders for including a twenty-one oral histories of his party are more than likely sal- 1871, when the founders of the A century later, after President The Democrat Party no longer guarantee that the new American people who actually lived ivating over their voting victories National Rifle Association incor- John F. Kennedy (an NRA needs poll taxes and rigged lit- government would never “in- through slavery, entitled; “My because they know America’s ju- porated their new group in New member like nine other U.S. eracy tests to control the vote. It fringe” on the right of the people Folks Don’t Want Me to Talk dicial system is no longer about York, that the political leaders of presidents) was assassinated, the is aided and abetted by puppet “to keep and bear arms.” Among About Slavery”. In the Introduc- justice but is ‘just ice’ and is the Empire State would dedicate world began to change. The Sec- judges and technology. the first presidents of the newly tion, she reports on the comments melting. themselves to the association’s ond Amendment became the But what is even more danger- formed NRA, created just a few of Sarah Debro who had been a In too many instances, this na- destruction a century and a half most controversial of all stated ous in a White-majority nation is years after the end on the nation’s As we stand at the dawn of tion’s judicial system is operating later? Or that a newly elected when that majority kowtows to a Civil War, were Union general Please see Juneteenth page 6 another century and a new in fear of and subjugation to a president of the United States small group of radical Black millennium, it seems useful to Democrat Party as it did in the spoiled brats and a small a group visit this question again. Deep South when KKK of White radical spoiled brats members and other segregation- Biden’s open border policies will What should we teach our under the war flags of Black ists got off (Dred) scot free in children about the history Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa. state, local, and, yes, even in fed- and experiences of their an- When BLM and Antifa say bring chaos to TN communities eral courts after committing any cestors in this country? The ‘jump’, Big Corporations and crime from murder to election the lives of women, children, and question is made all the more Big Sports, and every day hard- Biden's attempt to push the fraud. The Democrat Party pre- families and make millions of working White Americans border crisis onto well-man- urgent, because this is lit- sently advocates ‘packing’ the dollars every week. No one and whimper, ‘How high?’ This is aged states like Tennessee in- erally the first generation that Supreme Court and other courts nothing crosses the border with- fear. This is insanity. dicates just how unprepared has no living memory of and to legitimize its socialist pol- out paying the cartel. Both of BLM and Antifa are foot the administration was to no conscious experience with icies—its 100-day agenda to Last week FBI Director Chris- soldiers in the army of American take control. Border officials the kind of racism and blatant fully deconstruct this nation. The topher Wray warned there is "no socialism. BLM has already discrimination that was once Black community, the Congres- have apprehended more than question" that Mexican cartel ac- the norm in this country. sional Black Caucus (CBC), and Please see Juneteenth page 6 half a million illegal aliens tivity is "spilling over" into the since Biden took office. Com- U.S. Along with inviting in- slave in North Carolina. Sarah re- pared to May of last year, the creased crime and drug traffick- Email Letters to the Editor to ports that her parents told her rate of migrant encounters is ing, Biden's border policies have never to talk about slavery, be- [email protected]. nearly eight times higher, ac- already overloaded shelters and cause they were ashamed of hav- Visit all 50 States on the counting for over 180,000 il- left schools across America ing lived in that condition. That legal immigrants stopped in scrambling to stretch funds and feeling did not end with Sarah Black Information Highway.com find enough bilingual teachers By U.S. Senator Marsha May alone. Debro’s generation. It has per- Blackburn (R-TN) for the incoming class. sisted from that time until now. flights after I sent a letter de- Biden can't continue to sweep There are many Black people The Democrats' promises of free manding answers from Health the border crisis under the rug. who, like the parents of Sarah The Mid-South Tribune* healthcare, education, and cit- and Human Services Secretary Tennesseans have a constitu- Debro, believe that “We aren’t and the izenship have thrust our southern Xavier Becerra and Homeland tional right to know what is hap- the ones to blame for slavery. border into chaos. Even after ille- Security Secretary Alejandro pening in their communities, Black Information Highway Why talk about it now?” gal crossings reached their high- Mayorkas. which is why I introduced the As we stand at the dawn of www.blackinformationhighway.com est rate in two decades, border Biden's attempt to push the bor- Migrant Resettlement Transpar- another century and a new mil- The Mid-South GOSPEL Tribune czar and Vice President Kamala der crisis onto well-managed ency Act along with Senator Bill lennium, it seems useful to visit Harris still refuses to visit the states like Tennessee indicates Hagerty and Congressman this question again. What should U.S.-Mexico border. The Biden just how unprepared the admin- Chuck Fleischmann. The bill Ms. Arelya J. Mitchell, we teach our children about the administration's deliberate inac- istration was to take control. Bor- would require federal agencies to history and experiences of their Publisher/Editor-in-Chief tion on this surge in illegal entry der officials have apprehended involve state and local officials in ancestors in this country? The has turned every state into a bor- more than half a million illegal the process of taxpayer-funded question is made all the more ur- Director of Advertising: S. K. Charles der state. The Biden border pol- aliens since Biden took office. migrant resettlement. It would gent, because this is literally the icy is inept and an embarrassment ensure local communities have Compared to May of last year, first generation that has no living to our nation. the rate of migrant encounters is the tools they need to manage Departments and Emails: memory of and no conscious ex- Tennesseans know all too well nearly eight times higher, ac- large resettlement groups and re- perience with the kind of racism Editorial & News how quickly the chaos on the bor- counting for over 180,000 illegal quire full transparency to elimi- and blatant discrimination that [email protected] der transformed into chaos in immigrants stopped in May nate the current culture of was once the norm in this coun- [email protected] their communities. Last month alone. As staggering as these sta- secrecy. try. They were born after the we discovered that the Biden ad- Ultimately, the border crisis will tistics are, we know that the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., ministration used chartered number of migrants able to evade escalate, and in the face of Sports, Health, & Entertainment: Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer flights to secretly transport mi- detection, the got-aways, remains Biden's woefully inept leader- and Medgar Evers. The Civil [email protected] grant children into Tennessee via even larger. ship, states like ours will be left Rights Movement, which was the [email protected] an airport in Chattanooga. Offi- Rather than bolstering our bor- picking up the pieces and the event through which my genera- [email protected] cials involved in the scheme der security efforts, Biden all but cost. As Biden continues down tion of Black Americans has failed to make state and local of- his path of impossible promises, handed over control of the U.S.- lived, is little more to them than ficials aware of their plans, com- Mexico border to cartels. These I remain focused on my promise Business & Economics a chapter in a history book. pounding issues concerning the violent drug runners and human to protect Tennessee com- They never experienced the hu- [email protected] balance of state and federal au- traffickers don't share Biden's munities and put an end to this miliation of a posted sign that thority. Perhaps even worse, the compassionate facade; they are administration's dangerous open- read WHITE and COLORED. Follow our editor on Twitter @arelyajmitchell White House only issued a vague ruthlessly profit-driven. Cartels borders policies. They were never required to sit in acknowledgment of the midnight willingly exploit and jeopardize the back of the bus or the front of BLOG: themid-southtribuneblog.wordpress.com a train where the noise and fumes Blackburn-Hagerty Resolution recognizing were the worst. In this age of Denzel Washington and Will *Please submit press releases, photos, letters to editor to e- 225th year of Tennessee Statehood passes Smith, they never had the experi- mail addresses. Thank you. ence of either never seeing a WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Tennessee statehood, passed the created the State of Tennessee The Mid-South Tribune Black face on a motion picture Senators Marsha Blackburn (R- U.S. Senate unanimously. from the “Territory of the United P. O. Box 2272 screen, or if there was a black Tenn.) and Bill Hagerty’s (R- See full text of resolution States South of the River Ohio’’, Memphis, TN 38101 character, that person was either Tenn.) resolution, recognizing below: or more commonly known as the a slave, a buffoon or a criminal. and celebrating the 225th year of On June 1, 1796, Congress Please see page 8 This generation of black children has always attended integrated “Where there is no vision, the people will perish.” Please see page 9 June 2021 The Mid-South Tribune Juneteenth page 5 Endorsement of Rep. Vernon Jones for Gov. of Georgia ... from front page

Instead of filing an array of gia, but the future of America and ported on; yet, this position will Democrat Socialists. and April 2, 2021, Defendants company joining a Big Corpo- lawsuits against the MLB, our great experiment known as be located in Washington, D.C. Jones came out with these fight- plotted, coordinated, and ex- rate army to wage war against Democracy…Today, I’m a proud where all votes will be central- ing words: “His [Kemp] failed ecuted a common plan and con- Georgia. We, of course, have Gov. Brian Kemp cowardly Republican who is fighting tire- ized. leadership and unwillingness to spiracy to cancel the All-Star launched the ongoing ‘No Coke, left that to the Job Creators lessly against the Establishment The MLB in its support of fight election integrity, left us Joe Game in Atlanta with the intent No Woke’ campaign in response. Network and its President & and Radical Left across Georgia. BLM chose to punish the City of Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck to injure and deprive residents As a matter of fact during elec- CEO Alfredo Ortiz to file a Georgians deserve a leader who Atlanta and the numerous Black- Schumer who are cramming their and businesses of Atlanta, Geor- tion time, we encourage voters to will fight for them, despite the at- owned businesses, small busi- liberal socialist policies down have Pepsi Parties and other Cola lawsuit on behalf of the busi- What is also shameful is the tempts and intimidation from the nesses—all of Georgia. MLB has our throats… You know and I Parties to punish Coke as it has nesses, vendors, and entre- boldness of Atlanta-based Radical Left, woke corporations, on its website its full support of know that the Governor and the punished these small businesses, preneurs who were affected cable news pundits, or out-of- Black Lives Matter which, to re- Secretary of State were so afraid and multi-billion-dollar Black-owned businesses—and by MLB’s preempting its con- touch Hollywood celebrities.” iterate, is Marxist, anti-male, and of Stacey Abrams, that they went Coca-Cola company joining the City of Atlanta and State of tracts in favor of BLM-Marx- The above statement shows has equated the family with a into a dark room and contrived a Big Corporate army to Georgia. ists and Democrat Socialists. Georgians and those numerous mother and father as white su- an agreement, that was con- wage war against Georgia. In his announcement, Jones said enough to leave the Democrat small businesses, Black-owned premacist. Vernon Jones has re- ceived in darkness, nurtured in We, of course, have launched it best about needing an army of Party, a party which he had been businesses, women-owned busi- nounced the Democrat Party election law manipulation, and the ongoing ‘No Coke, No citizens: “We'd rather change this loyal to until the Democrats em- nesses why he did not hesitate to which now refers to mothers as drafted an illegal agreement that Woke’ campaign in response. country for the better, than fold braced socialism, until it became call out Major League Baseball “birthing persons” and fathers as polluted the integrity of the 2020 As a matter of fact during to the fake-outrage, Twitter mob a party which openly supports (MLB) when it moved the All- “non-birthing persons” and elections. That’s right! The Gov- election time, we encourage and Cancel-Culture of the left. Star game to Denver, Colorado to which has deleted the word ernor and Secretary of State did We’re building an Army, an the self-described Marxist group voters to have Pepsi Parties BLM (Black Lives Matter), An- punish Georgians for passing the ‘God’ from its platform. This is that... But you know what, he’s a Army of Republicans, an Army and other Cola Parties to tifa, and CRT which is a Marxist Georgia Integrity Voting Bill in- insanity; yet, the MLB chose to day late and a $100 million dol- of independents and an army of theory. stead of the Democrats’ HR -1 retaliate to destroy Georgia’s lars short. If you don't believe punish Coke as it has pun- Libertarians and an army of Jones in announcing his run for Voting Bill. As we pointed out in economy for the sake of this in- me, ask the small businesses, the ished these small businesses, Democrats who are embarrassed Governor of Georgia came out a previous editorial, we have read sanity. vendors and fans impacted by Black-owned businesses— of the Democratic party's far left with the gloves on to fight back the 700-plus pages of HR-1, and Instead of filing an array of law- losing the All-Star Game. All of and the City of Atlanta and agenda led by Stacey Abrams, P.C. (Political Correctness). It is reject it as did Georgians. HR-1 suits against the MLB, Gov. this...because of his failed lead- State of Georgia. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pe- refreshing to see a politician who is a pathway to full-blown social- Brian Kemp cowardly left that to ership. Leadership matters. And gia of their Constitutional rights losi.” makes no apologies. ism with a Democrat Socialist the Job Creators Network and its the lack of leadership matters protected under not only ‘equal Jones has stated: “Now more Party in charge. HR-1 spells out President & CEO Alfredo Ortiz even more.” protection of the laws’ but also Leading that Army should be than ever, the Republican Party is the position of ‘Director of Tech- to file a lawsuit on behalf of the The Job Creators Network law- ‘equal privileges and immunities Vernon Jones in the Governor’s in desperate need of leaders that nology’ which will ultimately businesses, vendors, and entre- suit backs Jones’ words about under the laws’.” seat in 2022. know how to fight. We are in the have control and jurisdiction of preneurs who were affected by damages in the millions and al- What is also shameful is the For more information, visit midst of a battle that will deter- voting machines. This ‘Director MLB’s preempting its contracts leged backroom deals. The law- boldness of Atlanta-based and jonesforgovernor.com mine not just the future of Geor- of Technology’ has been little re- in favor of BLM-Marxists and suit states: “Between March 26 multi-billion-dollar Coca-Cola Time for the National Museum of African American History and Culture to recognize The Honorable Clarence Thomas ...from front page

When the Clarence Thomas- ida. 15th Amendments were advo- for their Juneteenth moment. Thomas came to Memphis years with his son makes for a per- Anita Hill hearings were being cated by Democrats, and that the Over the decades—no, make back, Black citizens were lined sonal fond memory. held, I was contacted by a re- With this irrational bias towards 1964 Civil Rights Bill was that centuries-- not one U.S. Su- out the door and practically We join the New the Journey Po- porter from the Cleveland Call the Republican Party being a passed by a majority of Demo- preme Court Justice has dealt around the Peabody Hotel to see litical PAC in its campaign to get (Ohio) who asked what I thought plank of frivolous dialectics in crats. Of course, we know none with more disrespect, name cal- him. I saw a Black father with his Supreme Court Justice Clarence about the hearings. I was editor- the Museum’s decision-making of this is true, but the Museum ling, and yes—bull—than Justice son perched on his shoulder wait- his well-earned place in what in-chief of another newspaper at capacity, one must presuppose and its Smithsonian citizens have Clarence Thomas. I can tell you ing to see America’s second Af- should be an inclusive museum the time, and I replied in a brief that the Emancipation Proclama- yet to be set free by the truth. now that Justice Thomas is well- rican American Supreme Court for all Black persons who made quote that I had an open mind tion was signed by a Democrat Yes, the Museum and Smith- respected by everyday working Justice. The moment was historic Black and American History. and that his side should be heard. president, that the 13th, 14th, and sonian citizens are still waiting Black Americans. When Justice and my seeing a Black father One can imagine my surprise when I got a call from the White House from someone who had read my quote and now was ask- ing that if the White House sent me some files on him, would I read them? I said ‘yes’. I read and reread a pile of Clarence Thomas’ papers, speeches, and what-have- you. As editor of a newspaper, I have often sought out different opinions before the newspaper takes an editorial stand. I remember at the time one our late political columnists who was a staunch Democrat was be- coming a staunch pro-Thomas supporter. When the hearings began, I actually and sincerely was ‘open’. As America was doing, we continued to watch and listen to what became soap opera hearings. I began to sense it a witch hunt long before Clar- ence Thomas’ “high tech lynch- ing” remark, and after I read the gigantic files, I had reached the conclusion on which stand the newspaper would take:

We join New the Journey Po- litical PAC in its campaign to get Supreme Court Justice Clarence his well-earned place in what should be an in- clusive museum for all Black persons who made Black and American History. Toward the end of those hear- ings, we endorsed Clarence Thomas for the U.S. Supreme Court. It was one the best deci- sions I have made as editor of a newspaper. To reiterate, here we are in the 21st Century, and there is still an anti-Republican bias when it comes to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. That bias is about the same bull which has plagued the Black community and the Democrats’ hold on said community. ‘Bull’ is the best de- scription to describe the hysteri- cal Democrats, racist progressives, racist liberals, racist technocrats from Siliklan Valley (aka Silicon Valley), and the good-ole-Black boy- and-Black girl network of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). By the way, the Congressional Black Caucus should go ahead and make it official and rename itself the Congressional Black Demo- crat Caucus, seeing that its members have rejected the inclu- sion of Black Republicans such as Cong. Byron Donalds of Flor- June 2021 The Mid-South Tribune Juneteenth page 6 EDITORIAL: HR-1 uses racism to advance socialism and communism thru Black community... from page 4 stated that it is a Marxist organi- HR-1 has in place voting pol- ism to its own economic det- in the databanks when the child manageable chaos, HR-1 will ized on a precinct level, tech- zation (a FACT it scrubbed from icies that preempt any state riment and to supplant its own is voting age and the Democrat erupt into ‘contrived’ chaos savvy poll watchers, highly its website) and is anti-Black legislature and its respective vote with that of the illegal immi- Socialist Party will be able to pull under the guise of racism justifi- skilled and pro-American poll family. If America’s White pop- election commission through grant vote legitimized by the up the child’s name at will for cation in the name of Equity. watchers to stand as a civic army ulace was as racist and white su- what will be the Director of Democrat Party. that child would have already This nation has already let the ready to fight for voter integrity premacist as BLM and Antifa the National Institute of Stan- HR-1 also makes a pathway for been indoctrinated to vote social- “Critical Race Theory” be uti- at all elections, including the would like for us to believe, dards and Technology. It is the Democrat Party to ‘print’ tril- ist. Why? Because HR-1 has in lized as its 21st Century “Mein 2022 mid-term and 2024 pres- Whites could have wiped out the perhaps no coincidence that lions of dollars using ‘racism,’ place the “My Voice Voucher Kampf.” Big Corporate CEOs idential election. Because no Black community with the same Dominion and Smartmatic ‘white supremacist,’ ‘repara- Pilot Program” which will be have already let themselves be matter how qualified a Repub- commitment as Hitler did Ger- Software companies have tions,’ ‘guaranteed income’ and mandatory in schools if states bullied into submission for the lican candidate is, it won’t add up many’s Jewish citizens. Yes, launched multi-billion-dollar other euphemistic bribes not to want to receive certain funds. (In sake of “Equity” and the privi- to a hill of algorithms if voting there was systemic racism in the lawsuits against Fox Network “Build Back Better” the Black the long or short run, this lege of not being branded ‘white machines and software are com- U.S.A. known as Jim Crow seg- and President Trump’s legal community or the nation, but to Voucher Pilot program is set to supremacists’. Strange privilege. promised and if the Director of regation, but the 1964 Civil teams at this late date, well advance these trillions to decon- eventually kill off school choice Those CEOs who have fallen the National Institute of Stan- Rights Bill and overall sense of past the Election of 2020. struct the nation and usher in a and any other school dependent prey to the ‘Mein Kampf’ tactics dards and Technology position is morality by the majority of the One wonders what is the real Socialist Reconstruction. on some degree of state educa- of the Critical Race Theory are created. In addition, non-biased White populace made this sys- reason—is it politics or is it To further expound: HR-1 le- tional funds). HR-1 reads: “A inherently weak and will be cat- judges must be elected to stand temic racism illegal and set in business or is it the business gitimizes a power that gives the local educational agency receiv- alytic in bringing down capital- ready for Rule of Law fights. A motion a variety of cures to make of politics or the politics of federal government the power ing funds under the pilot program ism, the system which spawn the nine-member Supreme Court good on the Thirteenth, Four- technology? not only to oversee voting but to shall consult with the State and middle class—an economic nov- must follow the lead of Justice teenth, and Fifteenth Amend- be used as a clearing house for all local election officials who are elty in the world’s macro- eco- Clarence Thomas in his dissen- ments. There will be no Republican votes in the states through the po- responsible for administering nomic system where it has been tion which would have allowed Now, let us ‘circle back’ and ex- Party because the extreme Left sition of the Director of the Na- elections for public office in the proven that socialism is a failed for the 2020 presidential election amine HR-1 as much as we can has already put in place ways and tional Institute of Standards and area served by the agency in de- system which creates only two to be adjudicated and for the in this limited space: means to stomp the elephant. Technology. Whoever controls veloping the initiatives the classes: The very rich or the very prima facie evidence to be pre- HR-1 has in place voting pol- HR-1 is the elephant gun. the technology controls the vote. agency will carry out with the poor. The Haves and Have Nots. sented through transparency and icies that preempt any state legis- HR-1 also will be Big Tech’s Remember this and let it set in funds.” (pages 84-85). Therefore, is incumbent on cor- Due Process for The People. lature and its respective election avenue into distributing its own the brain cells called common Under this My Voice Voucher porations’ boards of directors to This may mean that the Repub- commission through what will be visas to secure their tech experts sense, and on the knuckles called Pilot Program, HR-1 reads: “The take a hard long look at its lead- lican Party, Libertarians, and the Director of the National Insti- and personnel from other nations fists. Fight back. Election Assistance Commission ership which continually gives in other third parties may have to tute of Standards and Technol- without their having to go But to corral all voting (hereafter in this part referred to to BLM-Marxists and Antifa join in a temporary coalition to ogy. It is perhaps no coincidence through much of an immigration records/databanks into the office as the ‘‘Commission’’) shall neither of which has created one counter the Democrat Party that Dominion and Smartmatic process at all. When Big Tech of the Director of the National carry out a pilot program under job. which is becoming the first Software companies have can ban and de-platform the Institute of Standards and Tech- which the Commission shall pro- Unfortunately, these weak CEOs American political party to at- launched multi-billion-dollar President of the most powerful nology, HR-1 creates what is vide funds during the one-year have meshed with the unwitting tempt a coup d’etat. When Nancy lawsuits against Fox Network nation in the world, it has already called a Contributing Agency. period beginning after the date of Democrat-prone Black com- Pelosi tore up a President’s State and President Trump’s legal sent the signal worldwide that it Now take a deep breath here be- the enactment of this part to eli- munity to serve as the catalysts— of the Union Address for all the teams at this late date, well past has, and will, and can preempt fore ‘circling’ around the mul- gible local educational agencies the fire starters—to destroy the world to see, she threw down the the Election of 2020. One any president it chooses without berry bush (as we say in the for initiatives to provide infor- most successful economic sys- gauntlet. When Big Tech banned wonders what is the real rea- due process or any other consti- South). These Contributing mation on registering to vote in tem (despite flaws and all) which the President of the United States son—is it politics or is it business tutional right. As an added bit of Agencies are defined as such elections for public office to sec- offers opportunity. If it were not of America for all the world to or is it the business of politics or nastiness: Does anyone think Big agencies as driving license bu- ondary school students in the so, hordes of illegal immigrants see, it threw down the gauntlet. the politics of technology? Tech will deal with the Black reaus, firearms, Medicaid and 12th grade. (b) ELIGIBILITY. would not be knocking over the When James Clyburn uttered that So, exactly who will be the Di- community which is part of a Medicare offices, Social Secu- —A local educational agency is U.S.A. borders to get in and stay the United States must be “re- rector of the National Institute of BLM agenda which preaches that rity, Department of Health and eligible to receive funds under in! structured,” he threw down the Standards and Technology, and, math is white supremacist? Human Services, prisons, the pilot program under this part It is up to those U.S. citizens gauntlet. When BLM and Antifa more importantly, why is there Math? Really? Big Tech will schools (grade to high school), if the agency submits to the who have either experienced di- set up ‘zones’ (city blocks) they even a need for such a position to never hire Black Americans to colleges, universities—among Commission, at such time and in rectly or indirectly (through par- took control of inside the United begin with on a national level? serve as no more than what is others, including the Bureau of such form as the Commission ents, grandparents or the like) States for all the world to see, How will the legal concepts of equivalent to technological jani- Citizenship and Immigration, etc. may require, an application con- socialism/Communism/Marx- they threw down the gauntlet. ‘jurisdiction’ and ‘standing’ play torial positions. In other words, [see pages 48-49]. The Contrib- taining— a description of the ini- ism/Nazism to fight for America When Democrat Mayor DeBla- out in these tech companies’ law- as tokens, because the Black uting Agency will be those en- tiatives the agency intends to to remain a free nation of free sio, an avowed socialist, led the suits in a structure where a judi- community has failed at advocat- tities already in place which are carry out with the funds (2) an people with those freedoms guar- defunding of police, he threw cial system is rapidly becoming ing for STEM education. After “primarily responsible for regu- estimate of the costs associated anteed by its Constitution. down the gauntlet. When Stacey blatantly biased and non-trans- all, Black students learning math lating the private possession of with such initiatives; and (3) HR-1 must be stopped. Abrams, an avowed socialist, parent? Will Fox become the is ‘white supremacist’. After all, firearms” and “Each state agency such other information and assur- All of which is to say that Re- gathered bins of questionable poster child for any ‘medium’ Big Tech will have ample in- primarily responsible for main- ances as the Commission may re- publicans, moderate Democrats, ballots, she threw down the which does not subjugate its fluence in the Director of the Na- taining identifying information quire.” (pages 84-85). Libertarians, non-Democrat gauntlet. Whoever gave the order ‘message’ to the (Democrat) tional Institute of Standards and for students enrolled at public Please note that the Election As- Party minded Blacks, Whites, for the military to be vetted to Party? Shortly, after the election, Technology’s office. secondary schools, including, sistance Commission office will Hispanics, Asian-Americans, find soldiers not in sync with the CNN canvassed cable and satel- There is a method to the extreme where applicable, the State be under the Director of the Na- Native Americans, India-Ameri- Democrat Party, threw down the lite media companies to ban Fox left’s madness; there is a method agency responsible for maintain- tional Institute of Standards and cans, conservatives, Black gauntlet. Whoever gave the order and Newsmax from its networks. to Joe Biden’s madness; there is ing the education data system… Technology. churches and ministers who do for National Guardsmen to ha- Why so bold? Will CNN ban the a method to the Democrat Party’s ” Who is to say that these millions not Golden Donkey-worship, and rass a sitting U.S. Congress- FCC next? madness; there is a method to These Contributing Agencies of underage voters’ IDs can’t be those conventional liberals who woman, threw down the gauntlet. The Director of the National In- Big Tech’s madness. will make it mandatory that the misused and/or abused? Of realize the Left has gone wild Whoever let the United States stitute of Standards and Technol- Yes, the Democrat Party since its aforementioned agencies and any course, since Democrats fight must engage in a second Civil become borderless to overflood ogy’s office ultimately will be in pro-slavery days has learned well other service acting in the capac- hard not to have Voter ID, then War, politically speaking. it, threw down the gauntlet. charge of voting machines and that whatever agenda it wants to ity of a Contributing Agency to anyone possessing a ten-year- HR-1 legitimizes Voter Fraud. those machines’ respective soft- implement, its go-to minority is send in all names, addresses, old’s ‘automatic registration’ HR-1 legitimizes Big Tech inter- If Americans do not stand up ware all of which will be one the African American which phone numbers and what have could vote in elections from local ference. HR-1 legitimizes a one- and stand together, the United ‘standard’ type voting machine simply worships the Golden you to the Director of the Na- to state to federal via the Direc- party Democrat Socialist system. States will become the U.S.S. and one ‘standard’ software Donkey. As a matter of fact, it is tional Institute of Standards and tor’s office. These students could Don’t be fooled. A.—United States of Socialist which can be, theoretically and the CBC and other Black politi- Technology for the establishment be children of illegal immigrants HR-1 supplants “One Man, One America. literally, manipulated to ensure cos and organizations which are of databanks. Names—any name or adult illegal immigrants. This Vote,” the Fourteenth Amend- We urge a resounding VOTE that there is no Republican Party also leading the charge in disinte- from any state—will be supplied can and will morph into vote har- ment, the Second Amendment, NO! on HR-1 which will vibrate or any other political challenger grating the United States into so- to the Contributing Agencies vesting, vote fraud, dead people First Amendment, the 1965 throughout America, the African to what is quickly becoming the cialism by propagandizing which will automatically register voting, and any other corruption Voters Rights Bill, state legisla- American community, the free Democrat Socialist Party en- “racism,” “white supremacy,” those persons to vote. which will make Jim Crow voter tures, state-county-local election world, and those nations that dorsed by Big Tech billionaires “white privilege,” “anti-white Secondary school students will suppression look like child’s play commissions, and state public want to be free! operating under the propaganda male,” “anti-Republican”— be automatically registered in (pun intended). education systems. Therefore, it of ‘racism’ and ‘White suprema- terms which they loitered about spite of not being old enough to is imperative that the Republican VOTE HELL NO on HR-1! cism’, ‘Jim Crow’ and anti-Re- before an ethnic group which vote. The Democrat Socialist’s Just as when Germany’s ‘social- Party has its own tech experts, publican Party. Biden is right: continues to react on emotional- logic is that those names will be ism’ (Nazism) erupted into un- tech rapid response teams organ- NRA celebrates 150 years protecting America’s 2nd Amendment rights from page 4 natural rights. History of the NRA to enact the Gun Control Act of (ATF) and the U.S. Department ganization emerged as the na- began “grading” political candi- Opposition to the private own- 1968, which Sen. Edward M. of Justice began arresting gun tion’s foremost defender of the dates of both parties on their ership and even the manufacture Kennedy (D-Mass.) declared a collectors and others whom they Second Amendment. The NRA’s support of Second Amendment many came to believe that by re- of firearms began to grow, and by “good first step” on the road to a deemed had violated the new, Institute for Legislative Action rights and putting together what stricting or even banning fire- the end of the decade, gun gun-free society. Leaders of both draconian and often vague laws (ILA) was formed in 1975 and arms, we could create a crime- Please see page 9 owners were on the defensive, political parties seemed ready to affecting firearms owners passed and violence-free society the facing a well-organized and lav- travel that road. in ‘68. likes of which the world has ishly financed movement ded- Though the NRA’s founders Up until then, the NRA was never seen. icated to first registering and then could not have imagined a se- mostly non-political. While the Former UN Ambassador and Travel to all 50 states on the restricting firearms ownership, rious effort to abolish the private U.S. Congress and various pres- National Security Advisor John with an eventual goal of creating ownership of firearms in this idential administrations some- Lanes of the Bolton wrote in a foreword to my what they liked to call a “gun- country, by the organization’s times asked NRA officials for book on the Second Amendment, Black Information Highway free society.” Gun owners began centennial, many NRA members their opinions on issues of inter- Shall Not Be Infringed, that these to be demonized as a bloodthirsty and friends believed that those est to voters, the association did and The Mid-South Tribune. gun-banners reminded him of the band of rednecks, ignorant sworn to denying Americans not lobby, endorse candidates or activists that led the anti-nuclear know-nothings and potentially their Second Amendment rights involve itself in political cam- movement of the 1970s and 80s. “Welcome, Travelers!” dangerous extremists. Firearms were not only increasing, but that paigns. By the late 1960s, ho- They were persuaded that if our were purported to be the cause of there was a real danger they wever, with the advent of what country would just unilaterally crime, mass shootings and all would achieve their goal. has come to be known as the disarm, our adversaries would Check out The Mid-South Tribune’s blog urban violence. Anti-gun “intel- When Richard Nixon became “culture wars,” it was becoming lay down their arms, and world lectuals” argued that the Second president in 1969, he formed a clear to NRA leaders, members on peace would follow. Those who Amendment didn’t mean what it commission to look at additional and friendly elected officials that themid-southtribuneblog.wordpress.com today blame crime and violence said; that it was an outdated guar- firearms restrictions. That com- many politicians were prepared not on criminals, but on the fire- antee of rights inconsistent with mission recommended that the to not only “infringe” on the arms they misuse, are, he sug- Email news releases and photos to: a modern society. Some even nation should, within 10 years, rights the Founders considered gested, equally delusional. [email protected] claimed the U.S. Constitution, outlaw the sale, manufacture or sacrosanct, but ultimately to abol- By 1968, the anti-Second and the U.S. Bill of Rights within private possession of handguns. ish them altogether. or Amendment movement per- it, were unworkable in today’s The organization that would be- The NRA and its members were [email protected] suaded then-President Lyndon B. world. come the Bureau of Alcohol, To- awakening to this new threat, Johnson and the Democrat Con- With a quasi-religious fervor, bacco, Firearms and Explosives and, within a few years, the or- gressional leadership of the day June 2021 The Mid-South Tribune Juneteenth page 7 June is Black Music Month Summer of Soul (... or When the Revolution The Women Songwriters’ Hall of Fame inducts iconic hitmakers Could not be Televised) set for limited theatrical The historic awards show will help to culminate Black Music Month 2021 with great & gifted honorees release at the historical El Capitan Theatre The Women Songwriters’ Hall present day, predominantly with Hollywood, California – June 16, light on the importance of history of Fame (WSHOF), founded to James Mtume, who produced her 2021– Hollywood’s legendary El to our spiritual well-being and honor women whose body of one solo album, Welcome to My Capitan Theatre presents stands as a testament to the heal- work represents the best of the Dream, for Epic Records in “Summer of Soul (...or, When the ing power of music during times heritage and legacy of modern 1987. She is also a part of "the Revolution Could Not be Tele- of unrest, both past and present. American music, will pay hom- Lovely Ladies" trio, who tour vised)” June 25-July 6, 2021. The feature includes never-be- age to ten noteworthy female with the Dave Matthews Band. This first week of the film’s U.S. fore-seen concert performances songwriters on June 25, 2021. Mary Chapin Carpenter spent theatrical run is being shown as a by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, This stellar event taking place at several years singing in Wash- limited engagement at The El Sly & the Family Stone, Gladys the opulent Museum of Women ington, D.C. clubs before signing Captian Theatre. Knight & the Pips, Mahalia Jack- in the Arts in Washington, DC, in the late 1980s with Columbia El Capitan guests will be able to son, B.B. King, The 5th Dimen- will celebrate some of music’s fi- Records, Carpenter's most suc- see a display of Harlem Cultural sion and more. nest songwriters and composers cessful album to date remains Festival memorabilia and receive in a magnificent moment to mark 1992's Come On Come On, a mini poster, while supplies last. “Summer of Soul (...or, When the their careers and classic songs. which yielded seven charting Daily showtimes for “Summer Revolution Could Not be Tele- The honorees bring an arsenal of country singles including the hit of Soul (...or, When the Rev- vised),” is the first official project artistry, along with hits covering “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” and under the recently announced the last five decades of popular was certified quadruple platinum In 1989, the Walt Disney music, to their induction. in the US for sales exceeding B.B. King performs at the Harlem Cultural Festival in Onyx Collective brand. The Company joined forces with Grammy award winning artist four million copies. She followed 1969, featured in the documentary SUMMER OF SOUL. winner of both the Grand Jury Pacific Theatres and Jody Watley – known for both it with Stones in the Road (1994) (Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures) Prize and Audience Award at launched a two-year, museum Sundance Film Festival will be her solo hits (“Looking For A and A Place in the World (1996). quality restoration of The El released theatrically by Search- New Love”, “Don’t You Want Carpenter has earned five Capitan, led by renowned light Pictures and will begin Me”) and smashes with Shala- Grammy Awards and is the only theatre designer Joseph J. streaming on Hulu in the U.S. on mar (“A Night To Remember”, artist to have won four consecu- “This Is For The Lover In You”) tive Grammy Awards for Best Musil. Musil with the super- July 2, 2021. The film will also – is hosting this stellar event. Female Country Vocal Perform- vision of the National Park stream internationally through the Star offering on Disney+ on THE INDUCTEES ance, which she received from Service's Department of the Roberta Flack, known for such 1992 to 1995. Interior, and guidance from a date to be confirmed giant gems as “Killing Me Softly The all-female band Klymaxx is conservator Martin Weil and Rated PG-13 for some disturbing (With His Song)” and “The First still going strong as their music architect Ed Fields, achieved images, smoking, and brief drug Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” is a staple on the radio and in the goal recreating the origi- material. which made her the 1st artist in dance clubs around the world. nal 1926 look and feel -- in- music history to win back-to- Belting out hits like, “The Men cluding original design ABOUT THE EL CAPITAN back Grammys for Song of The All Pause” and “Meeting in the elements such as the ornate THEATRE Year (only U2 and Billie Eilish Ladies Room” the group’s name plasterwork found hidden be- have since joined her) composed is synonymous with classic hind walls and the opera Declared a Historic Cultural “Be Real Black For Me” with women’s anthems. Their ballad Donny Hathaway and “And So It “I Miss You”, was one of Bill- boxes in the main auditorium. Monument by the City of Los Angeles and restored to show- Goes” with Dr. Maya Angelou. board’s top songs of1986 and olution Could Not be Televised)” The 5th Dimension performs at the Harlem Cultural Festi- case its original lavish architec- Singer/songwriter Valerie still to this day is played when are 10:00AM, 1:15PM, 4:30PM, val in 1969, featured in the documentary SUMMER OF ture, The El Capitan Theatre has Simpson wrote and recorded hits love is in the air. Continuing into 7:45PM. Showtimes and dates SOUL. (Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures) been since 1991 an exclusive first for decades with husband and the 90’s with the #4 R&B hit, are subject to change. run theatre, equipped with state- recording partner Nick Ashford, “Good Love” followed their sul- Tickets are now on sale at of-the-art technology, for The including “Ain’t No Mountain try Neo-Soul groove entitled, www.elcapitantickets.com and at Walt Disney Studios. The theatre High Enough (for Diana Ross “Private Party” showed evident https://www.fandango.com/el- also hosts live stage shows, and Marvin Gaye/Tammi Ter- that they could flow with the capitan-theatre-aacon/theater- world premieres, special events, rell),” “I’m Every Woman changing music trends. page. All seats for this and screenings of classic Disney (Chaka Khan and later Whitney The songbird Deniece Williams engagement are reserved, all films. Houston),” and Ashford & Simp- with her sparkling soprano ages, and are $18. son’s masterpiece “Solid,” which brought life and success to songs The El Capitan Theatre has In the 1920s, real estate devel- became a worldwide, chart-top- like “It’s Gonna Take A Miracle” taken enhanced health and safety oper Charles Toberman and Sid ping smash hit. The duo was in- and the hit pop song from the measures to its guests and cast Grauman built the Egyptian, Chi- ducted into the Songwriters Hall movie ‘Footloose’ “Let’s Hear It members. All guests must follow nese and El Capitan theatres. of Fame in 2002. They are also For The Boy,” but she penned posted instructions while visiting Los Angeles based Stiles O. recipients of The Rhythm & some of her most noted and re- the El Capitan Theatre. For Clements designed the elaborate Blues Foundation's Pioneer vered songs including “Silly” as health and safety information in- cast-concrete Spanish Colonial Award, ASCAP Founders Award, well as the most sampled and cluding theatre policies and style exterior; San Francisco ar- and the Grammy Trustee Award. covered “Free.” Williams has procedures visit https://elcapitan- chitect G. Albert Lansburgh, Rolling Stone ranked them No. been described as "one of the theatre.com/safetyinformation/ known for his design of over 50 19 on its list of the 20 Greatest great soul voices" by the BBC. In 1989, the Walt Disney Com- Summer of Soul features two of America’s most soul-filled West Coast theatres and luxury Duos of All Time. Jerry Keever “Bunny” Hull has pany joined forces with Pacific gospel stars Mavis Staples of the legendary Staples Singers, cinema houses, designed the lav- Tawatha Agee, known to the written hit songs as well as Theatres and launched a two- and Mahalia Jackson who was a legend in her own time. ish East Indian inspired interior. world of soul music for her sultry racked up many years as a ses- year, museum quality restoration (Photo/Courtesy: Mass Distraction Media) Originally a legitimate theatre vocals on the hits “Juicy Fruit” sion singer on many recordings. of The El Capitan, led by re- (over 120 plays and musicals and “You, Me and He,” with Hull co-wrote “New Attitude”, a nowned theatre designer Joseph walls and the opera boxes in the event that celebrated Black his- were staged), it was converted R&B/Funk/Jazz giant James hit for Patti Labelle, as well as J. Musil. Musil with the supervi- main auditorium. tory, culture and fashion. Over for film for the world premiere of Mtume, also composed songs for the Top 10 smash, “Breakdance”, sion of the National Park Ser- the course of six weeks in the Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane.” saxophonist Gary Bartz and co- for Irene Cara. She is a recipient vice's Department of the Interior, ABOUT SUMMER OF SOUL summer of 1969, just one hun- wrote the Stephanie Mills/Teddy of 20 Gold and Platinum Certifi- and guidance from conservator dred miles south of Woodstock, The theatre then was renovated, Pendergrass hit “Two Hearts”. cations, a Grammy Award for the Martin Weil and architect Ed In his acclaimed debut as a film- The Harlem Cultural Festival reopening in March 1942 as the She’s been described in The New soundtrack to “Beverly Hills Fields, achieved the goal recreat- maker, Ahmir “Questlove” was filmed in Mount Morris Park Hollywood Paramount, a stream- York Times as an "acrobatic, gos- Cop”, an Emmy nomination, a ing the original 1926 look and Thompson presents a powerful (now Marcus Garvey Park). The lined "art moderne" first run pel-charged soprano." Agee has GMA Dove Award, a BMI Per- feel -- including original design and transporting documentary— footage was never seen and movie house. worked consistently as a backing formance Award, and multiple elements such as the ornate plas- part music film, part historical largely forgotten–until now. singer from the mid-1970s to the terwork found hidden behind record created around an epic SUMMER OF SOUL shines a Please see Juneteenth page 8 Support the history and joy of Black Music

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This month Judd hails from the Appalachian The event will be executive pro- upper echelon of rap royalty with of their R&B Bracket Challenge. of slavery, racism, oppression, uDiscoverMusic will feature a foothills of Ashland, KY. duced by Janice McLean De- singles like “Marvin & Chardon- Music fans can create a playlist consumerism, hair, same sex celebration of the label’s iconic Recording with her daughter Wy- Loatch, founder of WSHOF, nay” and “Dance (Ass).” ranking their favorite R&B love and post 9/11 America cover art in an interview with nonna as the Judds they became who is a noted songwriter, author •The Dude is Quincy Jones’ 1981 songs using the link here, and On June 17th James Brown’s Shawn Brauch, founder of one of the best-selling duos of all and TV/radio personality in her studio album released one year can also tune in to the official chart-topping song “Super Bad” graphic design team Pen & Pixel. time. For the rest of the 1980’s, own right. 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The Judds swept the Fame came into existence to sa- celebrating its pre-20th Anniver- musical epoch-making entrepre- stylist to countless music VIPs, CMA’s Vocal Group/Duo cate- lute these women and many sary this month with a digital de- gory from 1985 to 1991 and gar- others whose talents stand solidly nered six GRAMMY Awards. beside their male counterparts, Actress/songwriter Dawnn but whose acknowledgement is ‘Negro’ spirituals continue to be part of the Lewis portrayed Jaleesa Vinson– so lacking that Billboard and Taylor on the NBC television sit- even fashion magazines have com A Different World from the done feature stories on the sub- American Black experience and heritage launch of the series in 1987 until ject. the end of its fifth season in On June 25th 2021 at The Mu- By Cheryta R. Jones Lovell said that great Negro survived to the present are only In the past, the Negro spiritual 1992. Lewis co–wrote the theme seum of Women in the Arts, that The Mid-South Tribune spirituals such as “Swing a small portion of the songs served as a form of secret code son which has been used and all changes, forever and the Lo,” Oh Freedom,” “I Know created in the days past. for the runaway slaves. They reused over the last 30 years by Website: www.womensongwrit- TV Parodies, organizations, uni- ershalloffame.org Black Information Moonrise” and “My Lord Lovell said that great Negro were also in honor of God. These Highway.com Delivered Daniel” dis- spirituals such as “Swing Lo,” slaves sang of sweet freedom, a Oh Freedom,” “I Know Moon- freedom that could not be appeared in the stillness of In the months of February rise” and “My Lord Delivered chained up and whipped down. Gov. Lee announces next steps and June that celebrate Black the night. He said that many Daniel” disappeared in the still- This freedom was truly pro- History and Juneteenth, there critics of Black spiritual have ness of the night. He said that claimed by God. Even in time of for Memphis Regional Megasite hasn’t been a more moving ex- done her an injustice. many critics of Black spiritual despair our ancestors sang out in NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee County home.” perience as the Negro spiritual. have done her an injustice. The praise to God, a deliverer. Negro spirituals were created by Governor Bill Lee recently an- In July, the Administration will Negro spirituals are a part of the chief evaluators have not truly irrepressible and jubilant song nounced a plan to complete present plans to the State Build- Black experience and heritage. felt the ultimate experience of Today, the Negro spiritual lives leaders who created them and major infrastructure investments ing Commission to move for- According to John Lovell Jr., the this movement in song. These on. These spirituals are used as spread them all over the slave at the Memphis Regional Mega- ward with building the author of the book, Black Song: critics have walked away simply freedom songs by millions of territory. These songs survived site, as well as efforts to address wastewater discharge pipeline, the Forge and the Flame, Black confused and disillusioned. people all across the world. They the oppression of the slaves and workforce and quality of life in one of the most complex, lengthy Spirituals (known as ‘Negro’ In a world that searches for ra- are sung in multi-purpose were sung for hundreds of the region. aspects of infrastructure buildout. spirituals before the term was cial harmony and peace, we can’t marches. They serve as an el- years—all the way into the 21st “The Memphis Regional Mega- The proposed investment totals deemed ‘political incorrect’) afford to miss the true message evation of the human spirit. century. Many of the songs site offers tremendous opportu- more than $52 million to address have outlasted their original cre- that is in the melody and har- Let us not forget the beauty of created in those days of slavery nity for West Tennessee, and I am both wastewater and water in- ators in the minds of Americans. mony. In these songs there is a song that our ancestors gave, for were soon forgotten, but they committed to building out infras- frastructure. Lovell said that the Negro spiri- true revelation. Children search the Negro spiritual is deep in live on in spirit. The few thou- tructure and supporting area This announcement comes after tual has never lost its strength the melody. There you can find meaning and in heritage. sand Negro spirituals that have workforce as we find the right the Lee Administration commis- throughout the world. the heritage of our ancestors. company for this space,” said sioned an independent study of Gov. Lee. “I have directed the the Memphis Regional Megasite Blackburn-Hagerty Resolution recognizing 225th Department of Economic and to determine viability and assess Community Development to ag- the site’s infrastructure needs, year of Tennessee Statehood passes ... from page 4 gressively market the Megasite area workforce and quality of and offer enhanced incentives to life. Whereas the State of Tennes- by a circle of blue symbolizing of Tennessee: Now, therefore, be anniversary of the entry of the companies demonstrating a long- In addition to infrastructure see earned the nickname “The the ‘‘indissoluble trinity’’; it. Resolved, That the Senate rec- State of Tennessee into the term desire to call Haywood Volunteer State” after the in- Whereas the State of Tennessee ognizes and celebrates the 225th United States as the 16th State. Please see page 10 volvement of the State in the has produced 3 presidents of the War of 1812, when many Ten- United States, including— (1) Andrew Jackson; nesseans volunteered for the (2) James K. Polk; and war effort and General An- (3) Andrew Johnson; drew Jackson led troops from Whereas, over the years, the the State to victory in the Bat- State of Tennessee has become a tle of New Orleans... cultural, diverse, and vibrant Southwest Territory; State that celebrates its bright Whereas the State of Tennessee past through agriculture, music, earned the nickname “The Vol- art, food, faith, historical attrac- unteer State” after the involve- tions, nature, and its people; ment of the State in the War of Whereas, on August 18, 1920, 1812, when many Tennesseans the State of Tennessee became volunteered for the war effort and the 36th and final State nec- General Andrew Jackson led essary to ratify the 19th Amend- troops from the State to victory ment to the Constitution of the in the Battle of New Orleans; United States, which gave Whereas the motto of the State women the right to vote; of Tennessee, officially adopted Whereas, from Mountain City by the State in 1987, is ‘‘Agricul- to Memphis, the State of Tennes- ture and Commerce’’, which is see pioneered many musical taken from the wording used on genres, including— the State seal; (1) bluegrass; Whereas the State of Tennessee (2) country; is naturally divided into 3 grand (3) blues; divisions, which include— (4) gospel; and (1) the Blue Ridge Mountains of (5) rock and roll; east Tennessee; Whereas the State of Tennessee (2) the Cumberland Plateau and produces products known the foothills and basin of middle around the world, including— Tennessee; and (1) Tennessee whiskey; (3) the low plains of west Ten- (2) hot chicken; and nessee; (3) Tennessee barbecue; Whereas the official flag of the Whereas June 1, 2021, marks State of Tennessee, which was the 225th anniversary of the at- adopted by the General As- tainment of statehood by the sembly on April 17, 1905, con- State of Tennessee; and tains 3 pure white stars Whereas this 225th anniversary representing the 3 grand divi- is a monumental occasion to re- sions of the State bound together joice and commemorate the achievements of the great State June 2021 The Mid-South Tribune Juneteenth page 9 NRA celebrates 150 years protecting America’s Second Amendment rights from page 6 has been described by experts as In many ways, the threat gun cording to President Bill Clinton would bleed the organization fi- may have lost his campaign for a sals make little sense. one of the most-effective lobby- owners face today is more (D), cost Vice President Al Gore nancially, cripple its reputation second term, but NRA efforts in- However, the same obstacles ing operations in U.S. history. dangerous than the one they (D) the presidency in 2000. and eventually destroy it. They creased the number of gun- that have prevented them from The NRA quickly moved from confronted in 1968 or during When President Barack Obama attacked NRA officers and staff friendly elected officials in the achieving their goals in the past non-involvement to advocacy— the Clinton or Obama admin- (D)—backed by his party, a and called them thieves and Congress and in dozens of state will prevail again. The U.S. Con- endorsing candidates of both fawning media, and millions of criminals in the press, even liken- legislatures. By early 2021, the stitution, the millions of NRA istrations. President Biden parties who were willing to stand dollars from anti-gun activists ing the NRA and its members to NRA Board decided to leave members and the tens of millions up for the Second Amendment. means to deliver on his prom- like former New York City terrorists. New York and reorganize in the NRA will reach during the Unlike members or supporters ise to defeat the NRA, and his Mayor Michael Bloomberg Meanwhile, Bloomberg ded- Texas, a state that has historically months ahead will once again of most “advocacy” or issue friends in Congress have (D)—proposed a package of fire- icated more than $600 million honored the Second Amendment carry the day. The NRA has re- groups, NRA members proved vowed to pack the U.S. Su- arms restrictions after the Sandy dollars to electing gun-control and that more than 400,000 NRA sponded to the challenges facing willing to cross party lines to preme Court, if necessary, to Hook tragedy, Washington pol- candidates around the country, members call home. gun owners against tremendous support candidates who share repeal by judicial fiat, the iticians and the national press as- and other wealthy anti-Second In many ways, the threat gun odds over the years and has their values. A lifelong Repub- protections guaranteed by the sumed that gun owners and the Amendment crusaders spent as owners face today is more dan- grown stronger, learned from its lican in a district represented by Second Amendment. NRA had finally met their match. much or even more. Despite their gerous than the one they con- setbacks and adopted strategies a Republican running against a trollers from winning. They President Obama even went on efforts, last year, it is estimated fronted in 1968 or during the to counter new threats as they Democrat opponent demon- would fight to take back lost television to assure his supporters roughly eight million men and Clinton or Obama administra- have developed. strably more dedicated to sup- ground and expand firearms that the NRA no longer mattered. women became first-time gun tions. President Biden means to Opponents of the right of free porting the Second Amendment rights. The results have been President Obama knew, like his purchasers. deliver on his promise to defeat Americans to own firearms are is usually willing to vote for the amazing, as NRA lawyers in fellow gun-control advocates The Second Amendment would the NRA, and his friends in Con- not going away, and that fact Democrat to protect gun rights, court and ILA lobbyists in the since the 1960s, that to take not be a deciding issue in the gress have vowed to pack the alone makes the NRA as impor- and the reverse is true as well. U.S. Congress and the states down the Second Amendment, it 2020 presidential race, but the U.S. Supreme Court, if nec- tant to gun owners as ever before. This willingness to vote their be- have won victory after victory. would be necessary to demonize, essary, to repeal by judicial fiat, NRA members, those who look Driven by their quasi-reli- liefs makes the NRA member- When Sen. Kennedy called the marginalize or destroy the NRA. the protections guaranteed by the to the NRA for leadership in de- gious dream of a gun-free ship more effective at election 1968 Gun Control Act a good He appointed his vice president, Second Amendment. They want fending their rights and those time than most groups, whether first step on the road to a gun- Joe Biden, to lead the charge. utopia, they have advantages to eliminate some of the most- who would deprive them of those left, middle or right. free society, only two states al- Biden failed, as had those who they did not have during widely owned firearms in the rights all understand this simple By 1986, the NRA’s supporters lowed their citizens to carry a had tried the same thing in years those previous assaults on the country, or make owning, man- fact. in Congress were able to pass the concealed firearm. Today, every past. Second Amendment. The ufacturing or buying them pro- The NRA’s founders in 1871 “Firearms Owners Protection state allows it. Some laws are Instead, this assault was turned media, both legacy and so- hibitively expensive. They want may not have foreseen the politi- Act” to roll back the most-re- better than others, but, as this back, and the U.S. Supreme cial, seem willing to do all what they call “universal back- cal importance of the organiza- strictive and abused provisions of was being written, at least 20 Court, after decades of silence, they can to shut down gun ground checks” and a ban on the tion they created, but we owe the 1968 gun-control legislation, states allow legal gun owners to affirmed in 2008 and 2010 that owners and to prevent the de- sale of any firearm-related parts them our gratitude because, with- as well as defeat some of that the Second Amendment does in- on the internet. They want to ex- out the NRA, America today carry a concealed gun without a bate that has in the past re- legislation’s major sponsors. special permit. In the 1960s, it deed mean just what it says. pand the categories of men and would not be the nation they While still devoting the bulk of Still, progressive anti-gun activ- minded the public and elected women included on the list of wanted to pass down to succeed- was assumed that government officials alike that the gun- its activities and funds to the tra- had the right to ban or seize fire- ists spent the four years leading those prohibited from purchasing ing generations. controllers’ proposals make ditional roles envisioned by its arms from citizens who merely up to the 2020 election trying to or owning any firearm, to repeal To preserve and win back our founders, the NRA rapidly be- wanted to protect themselves and destroy the NRA. They tried to little sense. concealed-carry laws and to Second Amendment freedoms, came the one organization ca- their homes in an emergency, but tie the NRA into the “Russia In- NRA and the issue made the race create a national firearms reg- we need to know the history be- pable of activating, informing after the New Orleans police vestigation” and, when that far closer than Democrat candi- istry. hind it. To help, NRA Publica- and organizing the millions of went house to house seizing guns failed, began an effort to destroy date Joe Biden had expected, be- Driven by their quasi-religious tions produced a book titled To Americans willing to fight for the after Hurricane Katrina, NRA the NRA’s credibility among cause gun owners knew dream of a gun-free utopia, they Keep & Bear Freedom: 150 rights enumerated by the Second lawyers challenged the practice America’s gun owners. New instinctively that while he wasn’t have advantages they did not Years of the National Rifle Asso- Amendment. and won. York Attorney General Letitia talking gun control during the have during those previous as- ciation. To order, call 1-866-672- The leadership of the “new” When the Clinton administration James (D) ran on a promise that campaign, he would target gun saults on the Second Amend- 2020. NRA was exemplified by Wayne managed to ram a so-called “as- her first priority would be to de- owners if he became president. ment. The media, both legacy *** LaPierre, an NRA field man who sault-weapons ban” through stroy the NRA as “a criminal Biden has always been an advo- and social, seem willing to do all For more information on the rose first to head ILA and then Congress in the 1990s, the polit- conspiracy” made up of “domes- cate for gun control and, indeed, they can to shut down gun David Keene’s essay and video, the NRA itself. LaPierre and ical backlash, led by the NRA, tic terrorists.” She and New York had posted pages of gun-control owners and to prevent the debate visit other NRA leaders decided it was was a major reason Democrats state Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) measures on his campaign web- that has in the past reminded the www.americas1stfreedom.org or not enough to simply fight a rear- lost control of Congress for the have tried to tie the NRA up in site. public and elected officials alike NRA.org. guard action to keep gun con- first time in 40 years, and, ac- court in the hope that doing so President Donald J. Trump (R) that the gun-controllers’ propo- From The Mid-South Tribune’s 1999 Archives: What shall we teach our children about slavery? ... from page 4 public schools, often with black Notice in the text in Deuter- hundred and thirty years Israel may never fully appreciate the for my son to imagine. However, about Kirk Franklin, Michael people serving as the principal of onomy that the writer not was enslaved by the Pharaohs of benefits and opportunities they that is an important story to tell Jordan, Shaquille O’Neal, Puff the building. They watched Gen- only acknowledges that the Egypt. During those years, the now enjoy if they do not also un- so long as we do not stop with Daddy, and others of that group. eral Colin Powell lead United Hebrews had been slaves in Hebrew slaves built the great derstand that things have not al- the way things used to be. But what about Kenneth Che- States military forces in the Per- Egypt. It is also acknowl- cities, statues and monuments of ways been as they are now. Last Notice in the text in Deuteron- nault? He is the man who has sian Gulf War. They are aware Egypt. And for a certain period of week I participated in the com- omy that the writer not only ac- just been named the next Chief edged that things have that black people across this time, when their time of enslave- mencement ceremony at Shaker knowledges that the Hebrews Executive Officer of American changed dramatically. The country hold thousands of politi- ment was drawing to a close, Heights High School, I also When Jefferson, Franklin Express, one of the largest finan- cal offices at every level of gov- people now live in their own they even had to make bricks signed every one of the diplo- cial service companies in the and Washington began shap- ernment. A noted black land, and they are the masters without straw. However, in Deu- mas, because I am the president world. He has been in charge of intellectual named Michael Eric of their own fate. “Slaves” is teronomy 6, when the Hebrews of the local school board. None ing a new nation in 1776, their credit card business for the Dyson attempted to discuss what who they “were” not who set out to provide a history lesson of that was possible when I fin- how could they ever imagine last several years. He is the man he saw as the stereotypes he iden- they “are” any longer. And for their children, they do not ished high school in 1966. I sat the economic and technologi- who oversees the green, gold and tified in a character in the re- we as African Americans avoid the episode of slavery. there and listened to the senior cal might of the country platinum cards that we are told, cently released film, “Star Wars: need to learn from this, and They simply do not stop there. class president and the student today? If successive genera- “Don’t leave home without it.” The Phantom Menace.” Most of start taking careful note of the They acknowledge that they had body president address the hun- tions had not improved upon And he is just one of the many the youth of this generation either many and marvelous ways in indeed been slaves, but they dreds of people who had gath- and exceeded the achieve- black people who now hold lead- did not know what he was talking which our lives have drasti- quickly move on to say that now ered for the ceremony. I ments and aspirations of ership positions not only in pub- about, or simply did not care. they are living in a good and remembered as I sat there, that lic agencies and governmental cally and dramatically im- their forebears, they would Perhaps now is the time to leave abundant land. They had been when my mother graduated as bodies, but in corporate America proved. have been considered low- all of the pain and hardship of our slaves, but they have come a long the valedictorian of her high achievers at best, failure at as well. We have come a long history behind us. Maybe our way since that time. And in mak- school class in Chicago in 1932, way. dren about our history in this worst. We dare not set a children are better off if we country? ing that observation, the Hebrews no black student was allowed to The Surgeon General of lower standard for ourselves. simply let them enjoy the world I believe there is much that can were saying a lot about them- participate in the ceremony in the United States is a black man in which they now live, and not be gained if we take a look at selves and about God. any way. The world in which my had been slaves in Egypt. It is named David Satcher, who went keep trying to tell them about the how Israel handled this problem I believe that we should teach son now lives is almost incom- also acknowledged that things to medical school right here in world in which previous genera- in Deuteronomy 6. They too had our history to our children, no prehensible to my mother, and have changed dramatically. The Cleveland, and attended this tions of our people had to live. once been slaves, and for a matter how painful or shameful it the world in which my mother people now live in their own church during his student years. What should we teach our chil- longer period of time. For four may have been at the time. They once lived is nearly impossible land, and they are the masters of The president of the American their own fate. “Slaves” is who League, one half of the teams Sen. Blackburn introduces resolution condemning they were, not who they are any comprising Major League Base- longer. And we as African Amer- ball, is a black man named Leon- icans need to learn from this, and ard Coleman from Montclair, Critical Race Theory (CRT) in K-12 schools start taking careful note of the New Jersey who I knew when I many and marvelous ways in served a church in that town. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator in American schools. The tenets only for their darkest hours. The Senator Marsha Blackburn which our lives have drastically Robert Johnson has turned the Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) of critical race theory are based far-left wants Americans to be- said, “Critical race theory and dramatically improved. And Black Entertainment Network joined Senators Rick Scott (R- in the destructive ideal of inher- lieve that our nation is inherently has no place in American even though it is true that not all into a powerhouse in the Cable Fla.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) to ent racism and will teach our racist and bad. They want to dis- schools. The tenets of critical black people have progressed as TV industry. Cornel West, Henry introduce a resolution condemn- children to judge and self-segre- credit the values America was race theory are based in the far or as fast as some among us, Louis Gates, Orlando Patterson ing the use of Critical Race gate based solely on skin color. founded on. They’re wrong. We destructive ideal of inherent the general improvement in the and William Julius Wilson have Theory in K-12 schools and In Tennessee, we believe in can’t stand by and allow ’woke’ lives of black people in America teacher training programs. Criti- racism and will teach our equality and opportunity for all. liberals to divide our nation. Stu- Please see page 11 simply cannot be ignored. We cal Race Theory is an academic children to judge and self- Students should not be discrim- dents in Florida and every state need to avoid so focusing on the Email news to concept that promotes division segregate based solely on inated on the basis of race under across this nation deserve better aspects of racism and bigotry that by seeking to dismantle Ameri- skin color. In Tennessee, we any circumstances. This res- and I’m proud to lead my col- [email protected] do still remain, that we fail to see can society. Its teachings are believe in equality and oppor- olution is an important step to leagues today in a resolution to the opportunities that are now based on the belief that racism is tunity for all. Students should prevent the far left from pushing stand up against this dangerous available, and the achievements embedded in American history, their radical political agenda in policy.” not be discriminated on the that have been made over the last laws and institutions. our classrooms.” basis of race under any cir- few decades. On April 29, 2021, Senator Senator Rick Scott said, “Since Senator Mike Braun said, cumstances. This resolution is As a single example, I wonder Blackburn joined Senate Repub- America’s founding, our nation “America’s kids need to know an important step to prevent how many of our young people lican Leader Mitch McConnell has strived to be a land of oppor- that the fundamental values of the far left from pushing their who are always searching for and more than 30 of his col- tunity for all. While we cannot our country are liberty, equality, radical political agenda in role models among the ranks of leagues in a letter to U.S. Secre- ignore the scars of our past, we and opportunity for all – not rac- athletes, rap singers and movie tary of Education Miguel our classrooms.” also cannot tolerate the attempts ism and oppression. I’m proud to stars, have decided to hang a pic- Cardona requesting the withdra- for the teaching of radical and di- of the woke left to weaponize join my colleagues in speaking ture of Kenneth Chenault on the wal of the Department’s “Pro- visive curriculum like Critical our history in radical curricu- out against divisive political wall of their bedroom or dorm posed Priorities” on American Race Theory. lums that teach our children to agendas being pushed in our room? I wonder how many black history and civics education, Senator Marsha Blackburn said, see America only for its worst classrooms.” adults even know the name of which included federal funding “Critical race theory has no place days, and the American people Kenneth Chenault? We all know June 2021 The Mid-South Tribune Juneteenth page 10 Black Tech Street announces community partners Silas House named editor and issues call for new symbol of Black Wall Street of Fireside TULSA, Okla., June 4, 2021 of Tulsa's Black business and /PRNewswire/ -- Tyrance Bil- cultural community. Industries lingsley, II and impact and inno- Black Tech Street's goal is to re- vation company SecondMuse place the existing Tulsa symbol Imprint is a partnership be- announced its first group of com- of the "Golden Driller" with tween the University Press of munity supporters who are work- "The Lady of Arts and Innova- Kentucky and Hindman Set- ing with Black Tech Street to tion" – represented as a black tlement School build a tech hub of Black entre- woman, with imagery that her- preneurs in what was once the alds Tulsa's new age of techno- June 8, 2021 – (LEXINGTON, wealthiest and most successful logical innovation and artistic KY) Bestselling author, journal- Black community in the United creativity. ist, and activist Silas House has States before it was destroyed by "As the Centennial of the Green- been named editor of Fireside In- government-backed racism and wood Massacre passes, our city dustries, an imprint of the Uni- hate. needs a new image and symbol versity Press of Kentucky in Beginning in Tulsa, Black Tech to rally around to show that the partnership with the Hindman Street aims to create a national next 100 years will stand in di- Settlement School movement of Black tech excel- rect contrast to the last 100 “Fireside Industries strives to lence. years," Billingsley said. "The publish creative work by authors Since Billingsley launched his next 100 years will be depicted with unique perspectives, diverse vision for Black Tech Street, the by a woman of color who repre- backgrounds, and compelling program has coalesced support sents the brilliance and creativity voices, who are telling the com- from the community to bring this Tyrance Billingsley II and SecondMuse announce first group of community supporters needed to push Tulsa to a new plex stories of Appalachia and vision to life. The initiative al- to commemorate and celebrate Black Wall Street (Photo/Courtesy: PRNewswire and Second- level of prosperity." rural America,” said House im- ready has committed support Muse) For more information about mediately following the an- nouncement. “I’m excited to from MetCares, the Black Wall Billingsley and SecondMuse are Black Tech Street and the call for ative capability of Black people beginning of a national move- formally announce my appoint- Street Chamber of Commerce, in talks with other partners and artists, which will be publicly an- and allows for widespread access ment to fundamentally build a ment as editor for this ambitious the Black Wall Street Times, the are in discussions with and have nounced on June 19th, visit: and participation in wealth crea- more inclusive technology sector imprint. Terrence Crutcher Foundation, commitments from large institu- www.blacktechstreet.com. tion." that will give rise to more inno- Born of the relationship between TYPROS, and Urban Coders tional donors who are supporting Black Tech Street aims to facili- Beginning in Tulsa, Black Tech vative and creative technology the Hindman Settlement School Guild. this vision. Those announce- tate $1 billion of investment in Street aims to create a national without the blindspots of the cur- and the University Press of Ken- "With the help of these partners, ments will be made in the com- the Black Tulsa Economy over movement of Black tech excel- rent tech sector," said Second- tucky, the imprint—founded in Black Tech Street will catalyze a ing weeks and months. 10 years by facilitating entrepre- lence. The founding program in Muse Co-CEO Todd Khozein. 2018—aims to be a publisher of global movement that takes the Engaging Black Tulsan Artists to neur support programming that Tulsa will stand out as an oppor- "Tyrance's vision and the pro- work that pays homage to the charge of Black Wall Street to the Symbolize Future Success will create a tightly knit, collabo- tunity for Black tech entrepre- gram's ethos of being built from past while also keeping our eyes 21st century to see Black people As part of its initial efforts to cat- rative community of Black entre- neurs around the world and serve within the community exem- on the future. Many of Fireside everywhere embrace technology alyze the next 100 years of Black preneurs and professionals. as a model for communities plifies the sort of success we Industries’ books will be new ac- as a medium to hike wealth and innovation, Black Tech Street Black Tech Street will help build wanting to create a tightly knit have fostered over the years that quisitions, along with the occa- positively impact the world," will be launching a call for local support networks that foster and collaborative ecosystem of builds up entire economies sional reissue of older works. said Billingsley. "Our mission is Black Tulsan artists to submit de- community, which is crucial for Black entrepreneurs to support where everyone, especially his- House’s writing has appeared in to build a new system that un- signs for a new symbol to repre- all entrepreneurs, especially for and innovate with one another. torically marginalized com- Time, The Atlantic, Ecotone, The shackles the innovative and cre- sent the vibrancy and prosperity relocated entrepreneurs. "Black Tech Street will mark the munities, has a fair shot." Advocate, Garden and Gun, and Oxford American. He serves on Home Depot Foundation and Home Builders the fiction faculty at the Spalding Institute partner School of Creative Writing, as the NEH Chair at Berea College, with 100 Black Men of America, Inc. to provide skilled trade and as a member of the Hindman Settlement School Board of Di- training opportunities for youth in underserved communities rectors. House is also a member of the ATLANTA, June 2, 2021 "As we work to fill the nearly cility called, "The Yard." generous grant from Home element of their lives and the Fellowship of Southern Writers, /PRNewswire/ -- The Home 300,000 open career oppor- "As we work to fill the nearly Depot. This investment will help lives around them." the recipient of three honorary Depot Foundation and its trades tunities across the skilled 300,000 open career opportuni- us expand our youth workforce Recently, The Home Depot doctorates, and is the winner of training nonprofit partner, Home trades industry, we have to ties across the skilled trades in- and career readiness initiatives Foundation introduced its the Nautilus Award, an EB White Builders Institute (HBI), are continue advocating for the dustry, we have to continue with a specific focus on the $250,000 Path to Pro scholarship Award, the Appalachian Book of launching a strategic partnership building trades that are so vital to inclusion of diverse talent," advocating for the inclusion of program and granted $30,000 in the Year, the Storylines Prize with 100 Black Men of America, diverse talent," said Shannon the economic recovery," said scholarships to celebrate the stu- from the New York Public Li- said Shannon Gerber, ex- Inc. to increase skilled trades Gerber, executive director of The Chuck Baker, chairman of the dents of SkillsUSA's National brary/NAV Foundation, the Lee training and career opportunities ecutive director of The Home Home Depot Foundation. "The board, 100 Black Men of the Bay Signing Day. Both efforts were Smith Award, as well as many for Black youth. Depot Foundation. "The Foundation is energized to team Area. established to train the next gen- other prestigious accolades. This fall, the three organizations Foundation is energized to up with Home Builders Institute, "The most important thing we erations of skilled tradespeople. “As editor, it will be my honor team up with Home Builders will launch a pilot trades training 100 Black Men of America, Inc. Recently, The Home Depot For more information on the Path to discover new writers and work program serving marginalized Institute, 100 Black Men of and The Russell Innovation Foundation introduced its to Pro scholarship program, visit that reflect the experiences of un- communities across Atlanta, America, Inc. and The Rus- Center for Entrepreneurs to https://www.myscholarship.app/ derrepresented Appalachians and $250,000 Path to Pro schol- Philadelphia and San Francisco. sell Innovation Center for focus on eliminating racial and home-depot-foundation. rural people, as well as reintro- arship program and granted The program will offer skill Entrepreneurs to focus on social inequities through educa- The Home Depot Foundation ducing established texts and $30,000 in scholarships to building workshops, work ex- eliminating racial and social tion and workforce development works to improve the homes and writers that deserve a second celebrate the students of perience, internship opportunities inequities through education programs." lives of U.S. veterans, train look.” and industry-recognized PACT SkillsUSA's National and workforce development Data from the U.S. Bureau of skilled tradespeople to fill the Fireside Industries is named in certifications. The programs are Labor Statistics from 2020 will achieve through this part- labor gap and support com- programs." Fireside Industries is named set to prepare Black youth for shows that skilled labor indus- nership is to give young people munities impacted by natural dis- in honor of the early Hind- meaningful careers and will be tries are dominated by white asters. Since 2011, the vation Center for Entrepreneurs a chance to work hard at work man Settlement that taught a facilitated through 100 Black (RICE). RICE is driven by com- males, while Black people and worth doing," said Tadar Mu- Foundation has invested more Men of America's existing after- munity impact and devoted to women are disproportionately hammad, HBI's senior vice pres- than $375 million in veteran broad range of basic skills to school programs. empowering Black entrepreneurs underrepresented. Black trades- ident for strategic partnerships causes and improved more than boarding students. Additionally, The Home Depot and small business owners. The people represent only six percent and development. "We know 50,000 veteran homes and facil- honor of the early Hindman Set- Foundation activated a novel Foundation will provide con- of the construction, architecture that when our students acquire ities. To learn more about The tlement that taught a broad range partnership with its hometown struction support for an outdoor and engineering workforces. marketable trade skills, we give Home Depot Foundation visit of basic skills to boarding stu- nonprofit partner, Russell Inno- creativity space at the RICE fa- "We are thrilled to receive this them a shot at improving every HomeDepotFoundation.org . dents. The cabin in which the students’ work was conducted was christened the Fireside In- Inner-City Arts names Shelby Williams-González president and CEO dustries Cabin in 1911 and served as the Hindman office for Arts Education Executive Shelby decade career as a teaching artist, Jonathan Schreter. "Her energy, chief-executive-officer. shops and performance opportu- more than half a century until the Williams-González To Guide Los senior level administrator, and authenticity, and enthusiasm sug- nities through the Rosenthal ravages of time finally forced its Angeles Nonprofit Through Cam- executive director, as well as pro- gest that the next decade for the Founded in 1989, Inner-City Theater, and creativity-based demolition in the early 21st cen- pus Re-Entry and Future Growth fessional dancer and choreogra- organization will be about more Arts is a learning oasis in the professional development train- tury. The imprint pays homage to pher. Beginning during her than just a successful re-entry to heart of Downtown Los Angeles. ing for educators. Young people this history as the Settlement LOS ANGELES, June 10, 2021 education at UC Berkeley, her the post-COVID landscape. Under the guidance of profes- who attend Inner-City Arts de- looks toward its future. /PRNewswire/ -- — Inner-City commitment to social causes has Shelby is poised to amplify the sional teaching artists, Inner-City velop skills that are highly The University Press of Ken- Arts, widely regarded as one of been driven by the belief that in- spaces in which we have histori- Arts' students are immersed in a valued in the 21st century work- tucky is the statewide nonprofit the nation's most effective arts vesting human and financial re- cally excelled—vision, strategy, safe and supportive environment force such as collaboration, cre- scholarly publisher for the Com- education providers, welcomed sources in young people is creativity, and innovation—lead- where they may engage in a va- ativity, and critical thinking, as monwealth of Kentucky. Serving new leadership when nonprofit critical for them to grow as ing our team and our students to riety of visual, media, and per- well as the social and emotional all Kentucky state-sponsored in- executive Shelby Williams-Gon- unique individuals and thrive as the next level." forming art forms in a studio skills that support wellness stitutions of higher learning as zález assumed the position of creative adults. To read the full story and watch setting. Services include core throughout their development. well as six private colleges and President and Chief Executive "Shelby is uniquely positioned to an introductory video about classes during the instructional Kentucky’s two major historical Officer on June 1, 2021. serve our young people, our edu- Shelby Williams-González, visit: day for grade K-8 students, self- For more information, visit societies, it was organized in Williams-González' passion for cators, and our mission," shared https://inner-cityarts.org/inner- select classes for teens, work- www.inner-cityarts.org. 1969 as successor to the Univer- arts education has spanned a two- Inner-City Arts Board President, city-arts-names-new-president- sity of Kentucky Press. UPK is Support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Purchase tickets to the dedicated to the publication of WGC-FedExSt. Jude Invitational, August 4-8. Visit WGC-FedEx.com. academic books of high Gov. Lee announces next steps scholarly merit as well as signif- icant books about the history and for Memphis Regional Megasite culture of Kentucky, the Ohio Valley region, the Upper South, from page 8 and Appalachia.Publishing for needs, plans to address work- impacting rural areas. the Commonwealth since 1943 force and quality of life issues in- clude a record $80 million “I commend members of the investment in Tennessee Col- General Assembly for their long- Watch for The Mid- leges of Applied Technology time commitment to this proj- South Tribune’s 27th (TCAT) to clear the waiting list ect,” said Gov. Lee. “I also Annual Black History of more than 11,000 students commend our partners on the Month Edition. who are waiting to join the work- ground, including the Greater force as skilled workers. 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June 2021 The Mid-South Tribune Juneteenth page 11 From The Mid-South Tribune’s 1999 Archives: What shall we teach our children about slavery? from page 9

created an African American However, it is important that others, we dare not overlook the Studies department at Harvard we tell our children more fact that as the song says, “We’ve University is unparalleled any- than what we have been able come this far by faith, leaning on where in the world. None of this to achieve in our lifetime, the Lord.” should be construed as my sug- dramatic though those This point was made in a power- gestion that all of our problems ful way in a recent story in the achievements have been. Part have passed away. However, we Plain Dealer last week. A na- will find the courage and energy of what we must also tell our tional study was done to deter- to consider the struggles that still children is that we expect mine what sources of support lie ahead of us when we take note them to do much more with were most mentioned by elderly of the accomplishments and their lives than we could ever black women who lived most of achievements that have been have accomplished in ours. their lives in poverty. When the Photo/courtesy Getty Images made as a result of the struggles We must challenge them not findings were reported, the local of the past. Like the Hebrews, we just to focus in on the oppor- religion editor called me to see if were slaves, but…! tunities that presently exist, the report seemed consistent with Getty Images and Stand Together However, it is important that we but to set their sights on the my experience. He was actually tell our children more than what doors that are not yet open, quite surprised by what was re- we have been able to achieve in and knock them down or ported. The majority of the announce an inaugural grant to our lifetime, dramatic though women answered that they were swing them open. those achievements have been. able to endure the hardships of preserve HBCU's historical archives Part of what we must also tell our their lives because of their deep children is that we expect them to demanded of us, and that is what and abiding faith in God. Over The Getty Images Photo Archive tion to a scholarship fund fo- •Aba Blankson, Chief Marketing do much more with their lives we must demand of our children. and over again, these women Grants for HBCUs will commit cused on furthering the education & Communications Officer at than we could ever have accom- This is certainly a part of what stated that they could bear their $500,000 towards the digitiza- of students at HBCUs; and NAACP plished in ours. We must chal- we must tell them. burdens, endure their hardships tion of two winning HBCU's pho- twenty percent will be reinvested •Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Professor lenge them not just to focus in on What is equally important is that and face their problems, because tographic libraries to fund the Getty Images Photo of Sociology – The Lasry Family the opportunities that presently we adults be willing to make they knew they were not alone. Archive Grants for HBCUs each Professor of Race Relations at exist, but to set their sights on the whatever sacrifices are necessary They firmly believed that their NEW YORK, June 14, 2021 year. University of Pennsylvania doors that are not yet open, and to allow our children to take ad- faith would see them through it /PRNewswire/ -- Getty Images, a In addition to being available to •Renata Cherlise, Founder of knock them down or swing them vantage of the opportunities that all. world leader in visual communi- license on the Getty Images plat- Blackarchives.co open. Just as the generation now exist for them. We all know What that report did not con- cations, in partnership with the form, the HBCU Photo Collec- •Raina Kelley, Vice President ahead of mine expected us to go that traveling outside of the clude, is that one generation after Getty Family and Stand To- tion will also be made available and Editor in Chief of The Unde- farther than they did, we must do country is a great way to grow another of our people has gether, a philanthropic com- as part of Getty Images' content feated the same with each successive and mature as a human being. I reached the same conclusion. munity tackling some of the donation initiative for non-com- •Mercedes Cooper, Vice Pres- generation. When Joshua led the never left this country until I That is the message in the great biggest challenges of our times, mercial use free of charge in sup- ident, Public Programming at people of Israel into the Prom- went on my honeymoon at the song, “Lift Every Voice and today announced the launch of port of learning about and ARRAY ised Land, how could they ever age of twenty-six, and even then Sing.” One verse says: the inaugural Getty Images Photo reflecting on Black history for Grant judge, Dr. Deborah Willis, imagine the power and splendor it was only to the Caribbean. One God of our weary years, Archive Grants for HBCUs, that Black storytellers and not-for Academic Director, Professor & that would emerge under the generation later, my son had the God of our silent tears, aims to support the digitization profits as part of the Getty Im- Chair, NYU Tisch School of the reign of David and Solomon? opportunity to travel to Europe Thou who has brought us thus far of the invaluable visual history of ages Black History & Culture Arts said, "Photographic collec- When Jefferson, Franklin and with his high school marching along the way… Historically Black Colleges and Collection launching later in tions housed in HBCU's from the Washington began shaping a new band when he was fourteen, and Universities (HBCUs). 2021. 20th Century focus on the notion nation in 1776, how could they to Central Asia with a national In Deuteronomy 6, it was made The launch invites all HBCUs Grant judge, Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, of photography as biography and ever imagine the economic and wrestling team when he was sev- clear to Israel that they should nationwide to apply online at Lasry Family Professor of Race helped shape the fabric of Afri- technological might of the coun- enteen. It required some sacrifice not boast about what they had https://grants.gettyimages.com/h Relations, and Professor of So- can American identities. These try today? If successive genera- on his parents’ part to get him on done for themselves. Instead, bcu-grant through Thursday, In addition to being available collections explore the cultural tions had not improved upon and both of those trips. However, that they should acknowledge that September 30, 2021, at 11:59 values, educational and religious was nothing compared to what to license on the Getty Images exceeded the achievements and God had delivered them with p.m. PT. traditions, as well as perceptions my mother sacrificed to provide platform, the HBCU Photo aspirations of their forebears, “great signs and wonders.” So it The Grants will commit of black communities through to they would have been considered me with opportunities when I is with us today. God has deliv- $500,000 towards the digitization Collection will also be made the 21st Century. Collective and low-achievers at best, failure at was growing up, including put- ered us with great signs and of two HBCU's photographic ar- available as part of Getty Im- individual memories are the worst. We dare not set a lower ting me through college at great wonders. When the Montgomery chives, including the digitization ages' content donation initia- foundation of these photographs standard for ourselves. expense to her own needs and Bus Boycott was able to get over of up to 100,000 archival assets tive for non-commercial use highlighting the classrooms, stu- wants. But that is what was done 90% of all black people to avoid per Grant recipient. Included in dent activities on campus, scien- for so many of us who are now free of charge in support of Every black adult needs to chal- the buses for 381 days in the face the Grant will be opportunities to tific explorations, art practices, adults, and that is what we should learning about and reflecting lenge and encourage some black of threats and intimidation, that also apply metadata and licen- and the making of portraits from youngster to be a success in some be ready and willing to do for our was a great sign and wonder. sing opportunities for the win- on Black history for Black college presidents to teachers and area endeavor. We cannot allow children today. When young black students ning HBCU's existing digitized storytellers and not-for visitors to the campuses. The them to become comfortable The final thing that par- found the courage to withstand libraries. profits as part of the Getty Getty Images Photo Archive with the tired old excuses of what ents must teach their children is centuries of segregation and Grant judge, Aba Blankson, Images Black History & Cul- Grants for HBCUs is an essential white people will not let them do. the truth about how we made it dared to integrate schools, lunch Chief Marketing and Communi- part of the on-going documenta- from the dark days of slavery ture Collection launching White people did not let Mary counters and bus terminals; there cations Officer, NAACP said tion and preservation of Black until now. That is another major later in 2021. McLeod Bethune begin a college were great signs and wonders. As "Black history is American his- images at HBCUs." in Daytona Beach, Florida at the point being made in Deuteron- Jesse Jackson says so graphi- tory. While some of that history turn of the 20th century. She just omy 6. God tells Israel to re- cally, “Hands that once picked ciology and Africana Studies, is known, too much is still hid- Stand Together is committed to did it! White people did not let member that it was not their cotton now pick presidents and University of Pennsylvania said, den. Our HBCUs hold precious supporting, telling, and showcas- Daniel Hale Williams perform efforts, but God’s grace and members of Congress.” That is a "Getty Images is one of the main and treasured experiences, ing the stories of talented Black the first successful open-heart power that brought them out of great sign and wonder. sources for imagery. Historically stories, images, and artifacts. We students and is partnering with surgery at Provident Hospital in their slavery in Egypt. We must This is what we must teach our Black Colleges and University are excited to participate in this Getty Images to continue to am- Chicago in 1895, he just did it. tell the same story. It was not by children. First, that we were have archives of some of the important initiative to preserve plify and lift up the many con- All that white people did for any efforts of our own, but by the slaves. Second, that we are slaves most important images related to and strengthen the ability to am- tributions of HBCUs through the Jackie Robinson in 1947 was grace of God that we have come no longer. We as a people have Black Lives. The Getty Images plify our collective story." curation of historical images. Ad- give him the chance to play base- this far. Why was slavery not come a long way since we la- Photo Archive Grants for Grant recipients will retain all ditionally, Heal America, a ball in the Major League. Every- able to destroy our spirits, if not bored in bondage. Third, we have HBCUs is a collaboration that copyright for their visual assets movement supported by Stand thing that he achieved both on our bodies? Why was Jim Crow every right to expect our children may increase access and dissem- and once digitized, the historical Together that fights racial injus- the field and off is what he did on unable to break our determina- to aspire to things that were un- ination of these important images content will be placed in a newly tice with love and redemption, his own. White people did not let tion to achieve full and equal cit- imaginable in our generation. to the world. The Getty Images created stand-alone photo collec- will also promote the Grant. Paul Robeson become among the izenship? Why were evil men Photo Archive Grants for tion called the "HBCU Photo greatest athletes, singers, actors like Bull Connor in Birmingham, And we ought to be willing to HBCUs also stands as a model of Collection" and will be available The Getty Images Photo Archive and social activists in American Jim Clark in Selma, Ross Barnett sacrifice to help them reach their how to leverage resources and for licensing on the Getty Images Grants for HBCUs is part of history. He just did all of those in Mississippi and Lester Mad- goals. And most important of all, organizational structure to re- platform, which includes and Getty Images' commitment to things in one lifetime. We must dox in Georgia unable to ulti- we should never lose sight of the move barriers to diversity of owns of one of the largest pri- anti-racism, inclusion, and dis- become increasingly impatient mately deprive us of our hopes fact that we have not managed to content and purpose." vately owned historical photo ar- mantling discrimination includ- with excuses, and increasingly and dreams? While we should accomplish any of this on our chives in the world. ing bringing to market unseen demanding of achievement and never underestimate the work own. “We have come this far by Submissions for the Getty Im- historical content and creating results. That is what our parents and courage of our leaders like faith.” All royalties from the images that ages Photo Archive Grant for revenue streams for organiza- Dr. King and Malcolm X and HBCUs will be judged by a pres- are preserved through the Grants tions working to build a more in- are funnelled back into impact tigious industry-leading panel in- clusive society. It is part of the programs: Fifty percent will go cluding: company's wider grants program, Watch for The Mid-South Tribune’s 27th Annual Black History Month Edition, to Grant recipients, who will re- which since its inception has do- coming in February 2022. tain all copyright of the visual as- •Dr. Deborah Willis, Academic nated over US$1.8 million to sets; thirty percent of royalties Director, Professor & Chair at photographers and videographers To advertise, email to [email protected] will be used for a financial dona- NYU Tisch School of the Arts around the world. Memphis Youth Villages will host three job fairs in June & July

MEMPHIS, TN - June 7, 2021-- Degreed and non-degreed [email protected]. cation and other instructions will and Arlington. portunity to make a difference in Youth Villages is hosting three openings available Job Fairs are from 2-6 p.m. CT be included once scheduled). All Webinars are 30 minutes each, the lives of children and youth of in-person job fairs for a variety and open to applicants interested COVID-19 protocols will be fol- starting at noon CT. The remain- all ages. of residential career opportuni- degreed and non-degreed open- in direct care. The June 29 event lowed, including wearing of ing webinar dates are June 9 and ties in June and July. The three ings requiring varying levels of is for licensed teachers, and the masks. 23; July 14 and 28; and Aug. 11 To learn more about the Youth job fairs are scheduled for June experience. All applicants must time for that job fair is to be an- and 25. Interested applicants Villages and available positions, 22, June 29 and July 20. be able to pass a background nounced. The webinars, which started in should RSVP by visiting visit Additionally, the organization is check to be employed at Youth May and continue through the www.youthvillages.org. https://www.youthvillages.org/ca continuing its webinar summer Villages. All candidates will have an op- summer, offer opportunities to Potential full-time employees reers/ or email series highlighting careers avail- To apply and get details via portunity to interview in-person learn about full- and part-time will be offered salary-paying [email protected]. able in Memphis and across the links for the June 22 and July 20 for positions at the organization’s behavioral youth counselor and jobs, health and medical benefits, country, including positions in job fairs, visit Memphis-area residential cam- assistant positions available at its paid and holiday time off, tuition Learn more about Youth Villages residential and community-based https://www.youthvillages.org/ca puses. Interested applicants residential campuses, group reimbursement, professional at www.youthvillages.org. programs. reers/ or email should submit a résumé to sched- homes and community-based growth opportunities, and an op- Available positions include both ule a time for the interview (lo- programs in Memphis, Bartlett June 2021 The Mid-South Tribune Juneteenth 12 UofM’s Hooks Institute for Social Change The Emancipation announces first academic research fellows Proclamation from page 3 MEMPHIS, TN — The Benja- “I am pleased with the diver- •Courtnee Melton-Fant, Assis- community where all excel,” ice of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the min L. Hooks Institute for Social sity of our Fellows across dis- tant Professor in the Division of says Daphene R. McFerren, forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning Change created the Hooks Aca- ciplines and departments. I Health Systems Management Hooks Institute Executive Direc- demic Research Fellows with the and Policy at the University of tor. fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any per- look forward to working with goal of increasing the Hooks In- Memphis "I am pleased with the diversity sons to whom such labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who stitute’s research capabilities and our Fellows and helping the •Shameka Hamlin-Palmer, of our Fellows across disciplines shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article, shall interconnectedness with faculty Hooks Institute continue as a Clinical Assistant Professor, Col- and departments. I look forward be dismissed from service. working in civil rights across the premier center for scholars lege of Health Sciences, Univer- to working with our Fellows and Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take ef- fect from and after its passage. nation. Serving for two years, working on race and social sity of Memphis helping the Hooks Institute con- Also, to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled “An Fellows assist the Hooks Institute justice scholarship," says •Paige Pirkey, Researcher tinue as a premier center for in fulfilling its mission of teach- •Sonya Ramsey, Director of the scholars working on race and so- act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize Andre Johnson, Hooks Insti- ing, studying and promoting civil Graduate Certificate Program in cial justice scholarship," says and confiscate the property of Rebels, and for other purposes,” ap- rights and social change, and in tute Scholar in Residence. Women’s and Gender Studies at Andre Johnson, Hooks Institute proved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures becoming a premier center for following: at UNC Greensboro the University of North Carolina Scholar in Residence. scholars working on race and so- Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons •Edith Gnanadass, Assistant at Charlotte cial justice scholarship. The Ac- who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the Government Professor of Higher and Adult •Melodie J. Rodgers, a Ph.D. About the Benjamin L. Hooks ademic Research Fellows consist of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort Education at the University of student at Georgia State Univer- Institute for Social Change of faculty from diverse dis- thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines Memphis sity in the Department of English ciplines and universities around of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted •Rita Green, Instructor at the and Literary Studies Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks served the country. by them and coming under the control of the Government of the Crews School of Accounting at •Don Rodrigues, Assistant Pro- as the first Black FCC chairman. United States; and all salves of such persons found on (or being the University of Memphis fessor of English at the Univer- He also served as president of the Hooks Academic Research within) any place occupied by Rebel forces and afterward occupied •Christopher A. House, Associ- sity of Memphis national NAACP. Scholars by the forces of the United States, shall be deemed captures of war, ate Professor of Communication •Kathy Lou Shultz, Charles The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute and shall be forever free of their servitude and not again be held as Studies, University of Pittsburgh Freeburg University Professor implements its mission of teach- •Kami Anderson, Intercultural- slaves. • P. Johnson, Associate Profes- and Director of the Women’s and ing, studying and promoting civil ist, Scholar and Language Advo- Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That no slaves escaping sor of Communications and an Gender Studies Program at the rights and social change through cate into any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, from any of the affiliate faculty member of University of Memphis research, education and direct in- •Angela Antipova, Associate States, shall be delivered up, or in any way impeded or hindered of Women’s Studies at Tennessee •Jennifer Turchi, Visiting Assis- tervention programs. Institute Professor of Geography, Univer- his liberty, except for crime or some offence against the laws, to be State University tant Professor in the Social and programs include community sity of Memphis due, is his lawful owner, and has not been in arms against the United •Liz Lane, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Division at the Uni- outreach; funding faculty re- •Wallis C. Baxter III, Senior States in the present Rebellion, nor in any way given aid and comfort English in the Writing, Rhetoric, versity of Memphis School of search initiatives on community Pastor of the Second Baptist thereto; and no person engaged in the military or naval service of the and Technical Communication Public Health issues; implementing community Church, District Heights, Md. United States shall, under any pretense whatever, assume to decide Concentration at the University •Kiesha Warren-Gordon, Asso- service projects; hosting confer- •Sandra Cooley-Nichols, Pro- on the validity of the claim of any person to the service or labor of of Memphis ciate Professor of Criminal Jus- ences, symposiums and lectures; fessor Chair, Instruction Curricu- any other person, or surrender up any such person to the claimant, •SunAh M. Laybourn, Assistant tice/Criminology and the director and promoting local and national lum Leadership, University of on pain of being dismissed from the service. Professor in the Department of of the African American studies scholarship on civil and human Memphis And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons engaged Sociology at the University of program at Ball State University rights. The Hooks Institute is an •Le’Trice Donaldson, Assistant in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, Memphis •Courtney N. Wright, Associate interdisciplinary center at the Professor of History in the Ap- and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the act and •Michael Brandon McCor- Professor of Communication University of Memphis. Contrib- plied Social Science Department sections above recited. mack, Associate Professor of Studies at the University of Ten- uted revenue for the Hooks Insti- at the University of Wisconsin- And the Executive will in due time recommend that all cit- Pan-African Studies and Com- nessee, Knoxville tute, including funding from Stout izens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto parative Humanities (Religious individuals, corporations and •Earle J. Fisher, Senior Pastor throughout the Rebellion, shall (upon the restoration of the constitu- Studies) at the University of For more details and biographies foundations, is administered of Abyssinian Baptist Church in tional relation between the United States, and their respective States Louisville of the Hooks Research Fellows through the University of Mem- Memphis, Tenn. and people, if the relation shall have been suspended or disturbed) •Annette Madlock, Adjunct, the visit this link. phis Foundation, a 501(c)(3) or- •Elizabeth M. Gillespie, Assis- be compensated for all losses by acts of the United States, including University of Minnesota-Twin “The backgrounds and dis- ganization. For more tant Professor in the Department the loss of slaves. Cities and Marquette University ciplines of the Academic Re- information, visit of Public and Nonprofit Admin- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused •AnneMarie Mingo, Assistant search Fellows represent memphis.edu/benhooks. istration at the University of the seal of the United States to be affixed. Professor of African American diversity that strengthens the Memphis Done at the City of Washington this twenty-second day of Studies and Women’s, Gender, Hooks Institute and the Univer- •Cerise L. Glenn, Associate Pro- September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and and Sexuality Studies at Penn sity of Memphis. They can help fessor of Communication Studies make our university a stronger sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty- State University seventh. By the President, Abraham Lincoln Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State Here are some facts about the history of Juneteenth 1. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862 and it went into ef- fect on January 1, 1863. 2. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865 when the word of the Emancipation reached slaves in Texas. At Ashton Villa, what was known as General Order #3 (the Emancipation Proclamation) was read, declaring all slaves free. 3. Texas was the first state to establish Juneteenth in 1980. 4. By 2008, nearly half of United States observed June- teenth. 5. Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota do not recognize Juneteenth. 6. The first legislation to recognize Juneteenth was intro- duced in 1996 in the House of Representatives by Cong. Barbara-Rose Collins (D-MI). 7. Juneteenth is a combination of June and Nineteen, the date slaves found out late that the Emancipation Procla- mation had been activated on January 1, 1863. 8. 13th Amendment in the U.S. Constitution ended slav- ery. 9. The Mascogos, descendants from the Black Seminoles of Coahuila, Mexico, also celebrate Juneteenth. 10. Juneteenth is also known as Freedom Day and or Emancipation Day. UofM football opens to full capacity ... from page 3 online at gotigersgo.com or by June. For those needing to com- calling (901) 678-2331. plete their contributions to retain Information on men's and their seats, email TSF@mem- women's basketball tickets for phis.edu or call (901) 678-2334. 2021-22 will be available later How to follow the Tigers: For this summer. complete information on Mem- Tiger Scholarship Fund contrib- phis Tigers Athletics, visit utions for football and men's bas- www.GoTigersGo.com and fol- ketball seats were due May 15, low the department's social and the new seat selection pro- media channels on Twitter, Insta- cess is being planned for late gram and Facebook

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