Ronald Reagan, Reaganomics, and the Cultural Transformation of the 1980s

My brother Kelvin grew up in the 80's.  Not only that, during the week, he lived and played football for a wealthy school 20 miles where my family lived in…

The Flying Fish Fable: How Trump’s “Civil Unrest” Narrative Went Off the Rails in Memphis

My family is very familiar with this area.  I played on Beale Street and my brother went to Booker T. Washington around the corner of…

Fascist Gestapo Coming to Memphis

Memphis is my home town.  The reality of Memphis, a hardline Jim Crow afflicted city, still has a black part of town, mostly the city, and white part which literally surrounds the city, in the…