They both distorted the truth, generated a false narrative, and committed character assassination just as those old journalists did to Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. during his arrival into Memphis, Tennessee to help sanitation workers fight for a better quality of life.
November 18, 2018 by Memphis Wireblog
Memphis elections for near 30 years were free of runoffs, which pitched the top two vote getters into a political race, that caused African-Americans to never elect their own as Mayor of Memphis. Otis Higgs – In both 1975 and 1979, the three times candidate for mayor of Memphis lost in runoff elections to Wyeth Chandler. […]
May 6, 2018 by Memphis Wireblog
Towards the ending, people began to talk to each other, strangers started embracing the reality, and as the surreal came down, a story of pain immersed.
December 8, 2013 by Memphis Wireblog
Black Cowsj Day – a group of Black American leaders come together and are paid by their trivial qualified principal/candidate; from a different ethnic group; to discredit and humiliate a foremost qualified Black American candidate thereby; creating an advantage for their political principal/candidate; their actions must lead to an election victory for their principal/candidate and […]
November 16, 2013 by Memphis Wireblog
Some people would say that politics is a dirty business; business; yes; but dirty; no! Politics is about the future; one can see the future by what’s on the table via policies. The best-managed communities have the best policies; communities that thrive and are productive are those with the best political systems; not who’s elected; […]
July 21, 2013 by Memphis Wireblog
The first rally was a great one; basically a group of youths about 400 passed thought the doors of Brinson’s nightclub; a stream of people continuously trafficked through its doors from Friday 12:00 noon until 12:00 midnight. This rally was different and beyond expectation; it was well planned and the people love it. For hours […]
July 17, 2013 by Memphis Wireblog
“Serving on this jury has been a highly emotional andphysically draining experience for each of us,” the statement said. “The death of a teenager weighed heavily on our hearts but in the end we did what the law required us to do.” – The Zimmerman’s Jury. What law requires the jury to find Trayvon guilty […]
April 4, 2013 by Memphis Wireblog
On March 30th, the Klu Klux Klan came to Memphis and rallied about the name changes of several parks from confederate names to more palatable ones. According to some local news outlets, the numbers went something like: <1,200 of us versus <65 of them. All news outlets then built their news stories around those numbers: […]
March 29, 2013 by Memphis Wireblog
The Klu Klux Klan will rally in Memphis, Tennessee, March 30th, Saturday, to protest the name changes of Confederate parks. A fire storm erupted when the Memphis council leaders decided to change their names to bring Memphis in line with the 21st century and to remove any lurking sense the city’s leadership isn’t working to improve the city’s […]
December 13, 2022 by Memphis Wireblog
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