June 2, 2026 • 56 mins
Juneteeth is the topic of conversation on The Bev Johnson Show on WDIA Radio with LaTonia Blankenship, Dr. Telisha Franklin, Tarik Smith and Representative TJ Hardaway.
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Picking up Miss Johnson show, because we've got out having
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Speaker 5 (01:48):
Good morning, Good morning, good morning, and welcome in to
w d i A The Bev Johnson Show.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I'm Bev.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
It is indeed a pleasure I have you with us
once again on this Tuesday, June second, twenty twenty six.
Enjoy this fibulous day to day. We'll get ready to
get your ears on as we share the good news.
Starting off, we'll talk about juneteenth and happening in Orange Mound.
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Put your ears on for that second hour, we will
ask the expert back in the house, our brother mister
Willie Jacobs. Get your questions ready for those final expense
planning plans.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, so we got a full day to day.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Get ready to talk at nine zero one five three
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five nine three four to two will.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Get you in to me. And if.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
This day, this this here day, Tuesday, June or second,
twenty twenty six is your birthday.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Happy birthday to each.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
And every one of y'all out there who may be
celebrating a birthday on this Tuesday, June second, twenty twenty six.
You know it already, Go out and celebrate your life.
You better, you better. When we come back, we'll talk
to some folks. We'll talk about June tenth in my
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neck of the woods, Orange Mound, Tennessee. Next on the Rev.
Johnson Show on doub D I A.
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Speaker 1 (04:31):
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Speaker 5 (05:03):
Yeah, I do. Come on, come on, come on, come
on a little joy and pain from count Basic.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It is Black Music month. June is Black.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Music Month, and I want to oh this month, I'm
gonna be playing some of my favorite black music. I
encourage you to go out and get some black music.
You're listening to the heart and soul of Memphis WD.
I A well, I'm excited this morning. Is any anytime
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you talk about my legacy community Orange Mound Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I'm glad to have folks to talk about.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Orange Mound, Tennessee, because that's where my folks came from
on my mother's side. Let me welcome in as we
talk about get ready for June Teeth, June Teeth and
the Orange Mound Collaborative, and let me say good morning.
(06:09):
My guest is doctor to Lisa Franklin, Missus Tonya Blank
and Chip.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We also have Tarique Smith. Y'all.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
He's a p y t up in here. I got
these p yts up in here. Yeah I do, Yeah,
I do, Yeah, you want to do? And I'm sourpriused.
This is my first time meeting him. He is the
son of my boyfriend of the late G. A. Hardaway,
and I'm glad to have him. C. J. Y'ard away.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
So welcome y'all.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
How y'all doing.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Good? Good? Good to have y'all here, All these smiling faces.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
You bring the joy, you know, I love it, and
I'm glad you all here because when you're talking about
Orange Mound, that's my place, Tennessee historic place, but coming
up more history, and I like that with this doctor
Lisa Rank.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
When we're talking about Juneteenth, how you doing sister. What
you been doing, baby, I've been just doing what I do.
Love God and loving his people. That's all I know
to do. Bail no God and love his people. I've
been seeing you everywhere. I said, I got to Tulise.
She over here, she over here, she's doing this. But
but I love how you work for the community. It's
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all about the community.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
It's you know, we have to literally serve the people
that sometimes feel and nobody serves. And so I just
believe God has called me in that season. Yeah, that's
what freedom looks like for me. So this month, when
they're thinking about JUNI teenh we got to make sure
our community know that they're free.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's right. We gotta make sure and and and you
know what, doctor Tulisa, some people don't even know about
June teenth. They don't. And that's why I don't care what.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
I'm gonna keep preaching it until I get a hundred, y'all,
because I already told the Lord, livingly live, talking one
hundred with my good mind, hold on.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Somebody and talking to snow.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I always said that, even I said, I want to live, yes, Lord,
And I was inspired by my sorority sister's mother missus Bunny,
she lived to be one hundred and five with a
right mind.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I said, maybe won't pass that one hundred. Come out
hey and still have that right mind. Doctor.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
You gotta have a right mind because I want to
buy Look, I want to take care of myself and
keep advocating for my people.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So tell us what's going on with this month with Juneteenth,
oh man.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
One of the blessing poinss about Juneteenth. We celebrate Juneteenth
all month long right here in the city of Memphis,
and so as a President CEO of the Memphis Juneteenth,
I'm always excited to make sure that we celebrate Juneteenth
all over the city and especially in the Mound, y'all.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
So not only when you come out.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
This weekend, of course, is the Memphis June teenth, and
we're right here in Health Sciences part this weekend Friday
and Saturday. But then the following week then we have
Juneteenth and the mind, y'all, a weekend of festivities, and
then we also have Roland Martin. Okay, yeah, but you
know there's something to do. And in the third week
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bell we're gonna be at loc Baby celebrating what June teeth.
So I'm telling people when when you think about June
teen in Memphis, you think about we're not celebrating just
one day. Every weekend, in different parts of our community
there is a Juneteenth celebration and so regardless if you
have transportation, you don't have trans babe, there's a June
(09:27):
team near you. And I'm excited about all the organizers
around our community that we're all banding together so we
can do one bound, one sound.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
June teenth is the mouse, you know what, doctor Tulisa.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I love that because we can we can celebrate all month, Yes,
and we can and go. You all going to different
locations in the city, and that gives our residents an
opportunity to get there because they if you live in
Orange Mound, where you may not can come to Midtown.
You know you live, you live in Soulsville, you may
not get the Orange Mound.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah, but we.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
Branded to you, baby, and then you know what we
bringing it to you. And you know, this is one
of the things I'm super excited about. Mayor Paul Young
when we had this conversation and even when Strickland was
in office, right, It's like, listen, I don't want it
to be about to Lisa one juneteen, how can I
make it inclusive that everybody feel valued, seen and heard,
because we know we got some transportation issues in our
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community bill, and we got to make sure we have
accessibility to everybody to celebrate June teenth. And one thing
that I love is that I don't care where are
you going and celebrating June teen. We make sure, because
I'm big about history and awareness, that everybody have education material.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So you ain't just gonna celebrate to celebrate.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
You gonna really know why you celebrating because it's the
oldest known celebration for the ending of slavery.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yes, yes, it's real. It's real, real, you know what,
doctor Tuli. So let's talk about it. And I know
Memphis June teen, we're gonna get to the Orange Mound,
so you all are starting first.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Yes, we always start our first. We kick off the
first week of June every year.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now in health sciences. First, let me go back to
the history.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Nathan Bedford Forest Park, which is the slave master of
the KKK. Now we celebrate June tenth on the land
where he thought it was his well, he was buried,
but now he got on y'all and we're celebrating right
there on that spot of ground. If you have to
google it, it's seven eighty nine Madison. It's happening on
this week. And one thing when you said about Black
Music Month, uh huh, it is we we kick off
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with the major stage celebrating music. And so even that
Friday we got Black Love Live. We got from Courtney
Richardson jer I mean, when I tell Courtney Little, y'all know,
y'all know I love me from Cordon right, I love
baby that Black Love Live.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
They set the tone on Friday night.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
And then on Saturday this year we got Chick Rogers
because she with a live band, baby.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Not just with a track. So you know, if y'all
know Trick Chick, she gonna shut it down.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
And so what I meant it ain't sure that we
did not just get cheap, but we also made sure
we got somebody for the young folks.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
So we got Miles Yacht. So when you see me walk,
this's a young folks song.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
You know I ain't that young all the time, but
I know I had to cater to the young folk
because we want to make sure when you come to Juneteenth,
not only visit our historian, our June teenth Museum, outdoor museum.
But you get a free music festival regardless of your
socio economic regardless of what money you got in your bank, bab.
You can come out there and celebrate here, good music
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and enjoy yourself. And that's what is about we as
June teenth organize us all about putting on events that
people could come out and celebrate each other, celebrate culture,
get what they need, and hey, it's all about us.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
This money'all I love it. So starting this weekend, it's
Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Friday and Saturday from eleven to ten pm, Health and
wellness vendors. So come out there, baib as. You know
we're leading with HIV in the Black commun Unity shout
out to Score Health. They're gonna be doing all that
stuff right there on site.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Right.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
So we got health and wellness partners out there, Arts
and craft partners. I got people coming from all over
the world with our vendors. So you see all the
good stuff that you see that is gonna be out there.
Y'all know, we gotta have some good food, right, good food,
but more so it's all about coming together celebrating.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
We got a car and bike show. We got the
Greek scroll off.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
I make sure there's something for everybody to do as
we kick off, and then look like I kick it off,
and then I throw the ball and Orange Mound catch
the ball and they keep drembling that ball with all
the great stuff they got on like that. Friday night
it's a game night, and at the Harriet and then Saturday,
Orange Mound Community Center, all the health and welders in
Sunday who don't need to go to church.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Everybody, everybody, everybody.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
So we got to get the mouth Pisca and tell
the Lord, thank you, tell the Lord yes, yes, yes, yes,
you know, y'all know church. Yes, cat, we're gonna be
a right on the corner of park in Marsha and.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Ill don't play with it in the mind, in the mind,
I told y'all, I told y'all got it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
And doctor Lisa, my great grandmother, was one of the founders.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Wow Mount pisgay so hey yeah, yeah, yeah, hallelujah, God
come out here Jesus.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
But we have to make sure that Friday of June twelfth,
before we do game night earlier, I had to bring
it back.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
It's Blake and ship father I had, Yeah, it's black
and ship father. She was like, can you get rolling?
We had another speaker.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
I was like, let me just go ahead and get rolling, Marne,
because Roland Martin is such an amazing speaker and we
cannot wait to have him back in our city on
next Friday.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm super excited about that, too bad wow wow, because
he ready, He's always ready.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
But we can't forget about LLC, y'all, because y'all know
I'm you know, I'm a studio. I don went back
to school, like I got time for this, I'm taking
you got time for Yeah, I do. That's why I
finn get this other degree because they can't take it
away from right. But I want people to I'm gonna
celebrate Juneteenth at l oc Baby on Juneteenth. It's gonna
be a lot of great things happening.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna talk about Yeah, love it
if you've just and Yeah, we having fun up in
here today.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
We are having fun. I have my very guests in here.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
We are talking about Juneteenth. We will be talking more.
Gonna let these pyts talk. Yeah, We're gonna let them talk, y'all.
We're gonna let them talk. If you have a question
or two for my guests, we do invite you to
call nine zero one, five three five, nine three four
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two eight hundred five zero three nine three four two
eight three three five three five nine three four two.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Will get you in to us. You're listening to the
heart and soul of Memphis.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
W d i A.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Don't go away. The Bev Johnson Show returns after these messages.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Your mind.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
I'm telling you just keep their.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Rival appear enough. Besjosin Show. Welcome back to w d
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Speaker 5 (16:48):
I'm talking with doctor ter Lisa Franklin, who is the
CEO and president of Memphis Junior Keeenth.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
We have the Tanya Blanken ship in here. We'll be
talking with her and Tariq Smith and c. J. Hard Away.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
We are going to our phone lines to talk with Flynn.
Thank you for waiting.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
Flynn.
Speaker 10 (17:07):
Hi, Flynn, Hey, Beb.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
How you doing.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I'm doing well, Flynn. How are you?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Brother? Hadn't heard from you in a long time, Flynn
been grinding.
Speaker 11 (17:18):
I hear you.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I hear you, brother, I hear you.
Speaker 11 (17:21):
I hear you, BEB.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
I wanted to ask and hello to all you, guess
I wanted to ask Uh, what can they give.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Out some information on how to contact them? Okay, because
we might have something we can contribute to this.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Oh good, So.
Speaker 9 (17:50):
I like for them to look at it. I had
no clue this was going on all month, but this
is good information and ask them to kind of slowly
get back then.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Grab it.
Speaker 10 (18:04):
Okay, that that was it.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
This is okay.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Well, well doctor to Lisa, She'll be happy going Heylan,
thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
So it's Memphis.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
If you always can go to our website at Memphis
juneteenth dot com Memphis juneteenth dot com. But you know,
I'll tell you if I'm an open book, you can
actually take our number as well and text me at
nine zero one two eight one six six three three
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seven nine zero one two eight one six three three seven.
Just shoot me a text and I'd be more than
happy to get back with you.
Speaker 12 (18:44):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
If you rather send something by email is very simple.
It's Memphis juneteenth at gmail dot com. That's easier than anything.
Speaker 9 (18:53):
And missus, yeah, Memphis juneteen at email.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
At gmail gmail. Uh huh, and I at least you
want to say something else.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
And if you if it's directly for the Orange Round Juneteenth,
I want you to call him.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
It's blanket.
Speaker 12 (19:10):
Well, reach out to miss Blanket ship and you can
call me in nine O one two one nine seven
one one one say it one more time one uh
seven one one.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
One seven one.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
What And that's dealing with the Orange Man. Yes, that's
dealing with the Orange Mound Collaborative.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Google.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
Okay, that's great, Thank you so much, Thank you please,
I appreciate it. Bye bye, bye bye.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
And so while we're talking, miss blank and ship twing
your branking ship, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I'm doing well, Today's sister?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Are you?
Speaker 12 (19:45):
I'm doing well?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You're holding on.
Speaker 12 (19:48):
I'm holding on even though I'm having some leg issues.
I'm still pushing through.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Keep pushing through, Yeah, pushing through. So you've been working
with the Orange Mount Collaborative.
Speaker 12 (19:58):
How long we've been doing this? This it's going to
be our sixth year due to mister Honorable Ja Hardaway.
He came to us and asked us to come beside
him to bring in the June teenth in twenty nineteen,
and that's when we started. And from there we've been
carrying you know, this on for you know, honorable on
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Ga Hardaway.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
So yeah, so so tell our listeners what you all
will well before you do that, the Orange Mound Collaborative.
Speaker 12 (20:31):
So let me let me put ga thing spin to it. Okay,
historic Orange Mound Collaborative Group, he used to always get
on mell Tony. It's not the Orange Mount it's the
historic Orange Mount Collaborative Group.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
So let me put that piece on there.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It is historic, are you right? Thank you for correcting me.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I got it.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Okay, I got it. So tell our listeners a little
bit about what you all do in Orange Mount.
Speaker 12 (20:55):
Well, the Orange Mound Collaborative Group is not just focused
just on the June team. We also heard right, helped
with the school went back to school, and we also
helped doing the holidays. So we just not at once
shop stop with June teams. And we do other things, yeah,
you know, on the side. But those are three main
you know pillars that we're working on.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
And basically you're working in the Orange Mound community.
Speaker 12 (21:19):
Yes, and we do you know, collab like we got
the Tuleisian. We collad with some other people to outside
of Orange Mound, like we deal with domestic violence and
good you know stuff like that. So it's just not
good Orange maund We will go outside of our you know, yeah,
you're comfort Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So June chief is coming up, so you all got plans.
Speaker 12 (21:46):
Yes, And so I am one of those ones who
believe in passing the torch. Okay, so I'm going to
pass the torch uh huh to a younger man two
thousand oh two Merrills graduate. What so his aunt, Tyreek
Pettis Smith is now the new chairperson of the Orange
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I mean the Orange Mount Juneteenth Celebration.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
So I will be passing passing the torch over to
Tyreek Pettis Smith, who is a graduate of.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
The He's gonna put it on say it one more time?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Brother. The and the reason I like that because let
me tell you, Tyreek, that that that my parents, my
mother and father were graduates were Golden Wildcats of Melrose
High School. So I told you to know about Orange Mound.
So my my folks graduated from and Carrie before.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You was born.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
I attended Melrose in the first in third grade when
Melrose was one through twelve twelve.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, I know you don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
You I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Great stories.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
So so mss mss Tony has passed you the tour. Yes,
so tell us about what's happening.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
How you feel, I feel great because this is something
that I've always dreamed about, prayed about, and and now
the opportunity is here. So I'm just looking forward to
bringing our community together as well as collaborating with doctor
Franklin to just really make Memphis happy, you know, make
Memphis feel the love that we really have for the
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community in the city. And so it's great that we
have this opportunity to bring it to orams Man.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Okay, so what will you all be doing?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
So on June the twelfth, we'll be hosting an adult
game night at the Harriet Performing Arts Center and and
basically in the heart of Orange Man.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Because that's right there. LaVar Campbell Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
And Penalty, yes, ma'am. And so we're gonna do that.
And with that those game nights, y'all know how we
play video games. We play game board games, Dombino's and spades,
and so with this in that conversation, as we was
developing this particular event, we wanted to say, hey, let's
let's build it around the conversation. Yeah, we're going to
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play games, but instead of talking smack to each other,
we're going to have more conversation around what we need
or the resources that we're looking for within the community.
So not just focus on just the game or not
just focus on the conversation, but bringing it all together
because we you know, we're Orange Mound, right, We're the
city of Memphis, and we really want to bring that
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conversation in a game together so we can really talk
about what we needed now.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
So that will be on the twelfth, June.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Twelfth, ga, yes ma'am, June twelfth, seven to ten. And
then on June the thirteenth, we're going to kick off
the celebration for the June teenth Festival, and so we're
going to start from nine to four. We're going to
have can you q Cook off with the streets in
Orange Mound as well as the classes of Mayl Roads. Yes, wellam,
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and so we're going to see who can cook barbecue.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
So, so where will you all be doing that?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
At the Orange Mound Community at.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
The Orangemound Community know where it is, right across from the.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Stadium exactly exactly. And so we're going to cater to
all ages. We're going to cater to the young children
as well. Leads the elders.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh, I like that, that's right? And and and so
that's a fun family event.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yes, yes, yes, because see the idea of having it
for an entire weekend is because we didn't didn't we
did not just want to focus on one day.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
We wanted to make it an entire.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Weekend because everybody can't make it on certain days, so
let's make it into a weekend. And of course on Sunday,
Mount Pisco, we got to celebrate. We got to end
the weekend off correct and uh and just celebrate amongst
each others in worship.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I love that. I love that. That's gonna be fabulous.
Now with the game night, is that absolutely free? Are
are your events all free?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Or so this particular event on game Night, we're asking
for a donation of ten dollars. We're going to feed
it back into the other events that we're having the community.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Okay, okay, I like that.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Yeah, so y'all come on out people who like to
play games, especially those folks who like to play space, and.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
That's gonna be good.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
And then on carry off on that Saturday for barbecue
at the Orange Mound Community Services Center.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Yeah. I like that.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
And then you, being a young man, you know you
can help and help Miss Tony Al because we googles,
we get.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
So we're claiming it now.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
And this young man sitting next to you, and we
know I want, we want to talk to him because
I don't know if you know your your father was
my boyfriend. Oh oh, his father was my boyfriend. State
Representative Ga Hardaway. And let me say, I was so
proud of you stepping into your father's shoes.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, talk to us.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It's good to be here. Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
I've had a great opportunity to hear about my dad's influences.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
In people's lives.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
And it's obvious that he's been an influence in Memphis overall,
and this is an opportunity to give people a chance
to see how he's played a role in the children
that he spoke pretty consistently. But I'm also here for
the hard questions. I'm here for the hard questions. You know,
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we've been properly pr since birth, okay, yes, And there's
you know a considerable amount of questions of my experiences
and my merits and qualifications.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So I'm here to be public.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
And as your dad would always say, and I hope
you're here too, As your dad would say, do the people's.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Work, absolutely absolutely, and.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
People hearing you for the first time, let me tell
us a little bit about you.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Well, I think something that's that's core to anything that
I have a discussion on is my passion for technology.
Our dad was pretty adamant of us being very forward thinking,
while at the same time he invested art and creativity
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into my childhood, having several scholarships to Memphis College of
Arts prior to its this it's removing, but that played
a huge role in being able to think creatively and
be aware of the tools that we're surrounded by, and
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it puts you in a position, especially now in modern context,
for us to have the difficult conversations so that we
can make immediate change. There's no more waiting anymore. The
tools that we have are so instrumental, so revolutionary that
we can have these we can have these concepts generated
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almost instantly, and my dad did a great job of
bringing the community together and rallying people to support each other.
But something that's specific about me personally is the ability
to instrument practical solutions. So and that's something that I'm
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very passionate about, something that our dad made sure was
core to our personalities, my brother and my brother and
I specifically, is there's no time.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
To talk about the problem.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
If people are coming to you with the problem, you
don't reflect it back to them. You are a solution,
so you have to come up with a solution to
what they're bringing you. Otherwise it's just an endless cycle
of the same conversation.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
So, and I know for some of our listeners that
you will be stepping in for your dad now, so
I should call you representative, state representative, State representative hardaway.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Wow, as many times as I've heard it, it's natural
to hear, it's natural to hear, and it puts me
in a space where I can make sure that that
legacy is it's consistent, because we all know how things
work where someone passes away and we have to go
on with their lives because at the end of the day, yeah,
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we we have ourselves to live for, and we have,
you know, hopefully for a lot of us, our children
to live for.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
But I didn't want that to happen for my dad.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
Okay, things were moving fast enough and historically enough that
it's easy for powerful people to be to be swept
under the rug. And it's it's a duty as a
son to take up your father's mantle.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
I love that, and you are right, I'm getting I'm
getting used to say representative hardaway.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Because because as your dad, you know, he talked to me,
he was on this air, he talked to the people.
As you said, we get problems, but your dad would
work to get solutions.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Absolutely, and I know you're going to be trying to
do that as well.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Absolutely, absolutely. And it's also good to know that I
was a pretty pretty consistent athlete in Memphis. You know
that's gonna be that's gonna be a big talking point.
I already know because Memphis is Memphis core to sports. Yes,
I played football at the University of Memphis as well
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as rugby at University of Memphis and Olympic weightlifting at
University of Memphis. Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. Shout out to
Inner city Rugby. Well, that's something that's that's not well
known within Memphis. Memphis has some of the most successful
high school and middle school rugby programs in the country.
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Shout out to Inner City Rugby. We have a league
across Memphis that is spanning out even further across Tennessee,
and when it comes to our youth having a positive outlet,
I think rugby played a huge role in that. Of course,
not to downplay football and what football has done for
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the community the end, the opportunities that football has presented
to people who have felt disenfranchised, But rugby is a
community sport and gives an opportunity for people who don't
have the resources to fund football programs with excessive apparel
and equipment.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
For rugby, all they need is.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
A ball, and that core principle itself has played a
huge role in my personal development as well.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
This is so, it's so as you take those steps,
your father's steps, you think this is something that you
will pursue further, but you're taking one day at a time.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
You're just gonna So this past month has been committed
to making sure that my father, Ga Hardaway, is permanent,
that his memory is consistent, that it's a household name.
And in the process of doing that, I've had an
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opportunity to present myself to have conversations on behalf of
my own interests and my own passions and my own
policy concentration, I guess, and it's been it's been a
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lot of support. It's been a lot of support for
who I am personally, and that's been very important for
me to know that if there is a future in
this space, that it's based off of an appreciation for
who I am and what I can bring to the table,
in spite of the fact that my father's poured into
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us and instilled a strong sense of all of his
positive characteristics. If you're in a position of service, you
have to be passionate about it. You yes, and you
have to be passionate about your people. And having the
opportunity to present myself not only in the Orange Mound,
Binghampton Historical Glen View, but parts of Cordova have become
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aware of my presence and having those conversations has been
hugely impactful for making any future decisions to support the community,
whether it be with with policy or with translating what's
happening for them to the General Assembly in the capital
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and vice versa. Transparency, the ability to create transparency between
our government and our citizens is huge and extremely important
now that we're living in an age of information where
you can be misinformed.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
As much as you're uninformed.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
I think, brother, you're gonna do well what he said, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
he come from his DNA tales, right.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
DNA that is your daddy.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
I know, and Tarik, I know you. You are happy
that he's gonna be working. He's gonna work with on him. Yes, yes,
get the microphone so I can hear what you're.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Working with him, even on this event space that we're
working with the Junie teen. He has been a pleasure
in getting to know him. I know he's going to
do a magnificent job and following his dad's legacy but
also creating his own.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Yes, I like it.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
So as we get ready to kind of wrap up things,
Doctor Talisa again, I want you to tell our listeners
what's going on, because y'all we're getting ready to celebrate
June teenth, the Doctor Lisa, we're gonna do this all month,
and also June is black music money. I don't want
y'all forget that. Never, Doctor Tulisa, tell him what's going
on this weekend.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
This weekend Ro's lead to Health Sciences Park, but let
me go back, formerly known as Nathan Bedford Forest Park.
Y'all from Friday and Saturday from ten am to ten
pm every night Friday and Saturday, we celebrating Black Music Month,
and the Grand Stage is there great live music all
day long from bands and singers in state, out of state.
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It's gonna be a great time, health and wellness vendors,
great food, out of state of craft vendors. So if
you like the African material and all those artifacts, you
can always come there. But then also I challenge everyone
to come to our outdoor Juneteenth Museum. Okay, it's an
outdoor museum, tell me about this. It's an experience, I really.
(37:31):
So one of my biggest things was when I took
over Juneteenth many years ago and I was asking people
did they know what it was celebrating. The answers I got, unfortunately,
was ludicrous, right, And I was like, I can't have
a celebration and people don't know what they're celebrating exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
And so we have literally a twenty five.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
Think it's a twenty by fifty or twenty by sixty ten,
and it shows you from slavery all the way to now.
And so it took what most impactful when I see
families of all nationalities stand there and they're reading and
they're listening and they're watching. Because we want to make
sure why are you celebrating you have, but you want
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to understand the struggle, because what's happening right now, Bill,
They're trying to race our history, right and I declined,
they ain't gonna race our history as long as I'm around,
because I'm gonna keep putting it in front of us.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
But my challenge is to the people that look like me, make.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Sure you tell your children, your grandchildren so they understand
the shoulders in which they stand on is why we're
doing this and that and that's why I love this
outdoor museum. Shout out to my coordinator that leads, Lady
Beverly Davis, and it's instru with because Juneteenth when it.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Was started thirty thirty three years ago. It was started
in their church.
Speaker 7 (38:43):
In Saint Paul Church, Douglas. And so she leads this effort.
And we have a young lady by the name of Kennedy.
She travels from Texas to come down and work to
make sure her young peers understand it's valuable to her
and she want to make sure it's valuable to them.
So listen, if you guys, free emission, come out, go
through the museum, get that information you need and you
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can find all things at Juneteenth methig, juneteenth dot com or.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Y'a already know y'all can just google me. I'm Google baby.
Wait a minute to let me go to our phone lines.
I love it. Go to our phone lines. W D
I a hi caller.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Yes, good morning, ladies. How y'all doing today?
Speaker 2 (39:25):
We're doing well? How are you? Carl?
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Fine? I just want to shout in on what on
the less statement that they have made about how they're
trying to erase our history and things like that. Yeah,
and I'm trying to bring it home. We all remember Roots,
right right, the Men series and the second and the
next generation that was done on ABC Television. So I
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decided to do some research based on conversation that took
place yesterday when I call Bill's show. Do you know
at the end of closing credits where they showing all
the audis and things at the very end, it showed
that that show was recommended by the National Education Association
in United States of America. My point is, now they're
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trying to erase Rustle even being shown in classroom or
being mentioned in the libraries, when it was approved by
the National Education of War almost fifty years ago. Now
they're trying to get rid of it, saying we need
to ban.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
That and and trying to get rid of it in
hitting Tennessee where Alex Haley well in that area.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Did you know that get rid of I didn't know.
I didn't know that part. Oh yeah, sir, yeah, yeah,
So I need to keep up on my research. By
my point is if it was good fifty years ago
by the National Education Association, why isn't it good now?
What happened in the last fifty years what took over? Oh,
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certain people want could get rid of our history like
we never before exactly now, So thank you for taking
my calls. I just want to share it with y'all
if you get a chance. Look at Russ again on television.
At the very end, seople, they say the last part
of closing critics.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Okay, thank you, Carl, Thank you, ma'am. I didn't I
didn't know all the critics.
Speaker 5 (41:17):
But yeah, and and and that's why doctor Talisa said,
she's showing the history absolutely.
Speaker 7 (41:24):
And you know, one of the good things, beb I
had a facility that don't look like me, call me
because I travel teaching June teen. But it made my
heart feel good.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
They don't.
Speaker 7 (41:34):
They don't look like me, right, but they wanted to
know about June teen. And so that's what we gotta do.
We gotta keep preaching it because regardless if they look
like us, they don't. They need to know the history
so they can respect the history. And then we as
a people again, we gotta keep telling our children because
what's happening social media and these antheorithm is getting messing
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our children up where they're not sitting down picking up
a book or reading. Like I wrote that I should
have brought you what I don't, well, I think about it.
I brought a coloring book. Whether it's a June team,
whether you won or one hundred and one, you gonna
learn some of this activity book because it is imperative
that we teach our children, because if we do not
teach our children, they will repeat history. And I'd be
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dang on if I'm allowing anybody on my watch repeat
that I didn't give you the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
I'm gonna take you to the water that you gotta
bend down to drink. That's right, that's right. Now we
got all this in the park. Now you have something
special with Roland.
Speaker 7 (42:28):
Marsh absolutely on June twelfth. Friday, June twelfth, eleven thirty
is our June teenth Awards. Let me tell y'all how
important and not. It's our luncheon and we honor people
and I would love to really share those people. But
I'm really excited about June teenth with Roland coming. We
all know Roland Martin is a very outspoken. Last time
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he was here and I'll meet some people, was like, ohter, Lisa,
he was doing this, I said, but can we say
did he say anything?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Was it a lie?
Speaker 5 (42:57):
Now?
Speaker 7 (42:58):
If it was a lie, then I'm ready to have
the conversations because I'm all about that talk, right, But
was it not?
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Some was the truth that we need to address these
issues in our Chocolate city, right?
Speaker 7 (43:09):
And so all I tell people, let's continue to work
together and not work in silos. And that's one thing
I try to make sure a June teen that at
that luncheon, not only that you celebrate June teen, but
you get what you need to go back to your neighborhood,
your community, your church and say I'm going to do
something differently to make sure.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
I empower our people.
Speaker 7 (43:32):
We perish the Bible says because of lack of knowledge
and whether we like the messenger matters. I tell people
sometimes you don't like the way I say it, but
I just say it. The messenger matters.
Speaker 5 (43:43):
Right.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
We got to get the message to our people to
wake up, come out of this sleep.
Speaker 7 (43:48):
So not being commatoes and wake up and let's make
some differences in our community. Memphis is a great place
to live, work, thrive, but we got to understand and
recognize how great we are before anybody else can record exactly.
Speaker 6 (44:01):
And I think that touches on a really important point,
especially with the new districting. Black history is American history,
and participation, lack of participation is how we got to
this point. Lack of participation. Our voting record is not
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nearly where it needs to be. The amount of registered
voters to people who actually come to the polls is embarrassing.
It is, and Memphis should be ashamed of that level
of participation.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
And our folks need to be a shame.
Speaker 6 (44:39):
Absolutely absolutely, we are Memphis. We are Memphis, and priority
comes down to minorities. Minorities in Memphis are the most
powerful unit in Tennessee. And that's true economically, that's true
on our voting record. That's true on how we influence
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it's culture and society. But we haven't had the opportunities
because one distractions, obvious distractions, and it's on purpose.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
It's on purpose.
Speaker 6 (45:12):
The federal government makes it on purpose that we are
heavily distracted so that we can't participate. And then it
comes back down to individual accountability that we don't participate
because we don't feel included. But voting is not an
individual sport. We think that our vote doesn't matter, but
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our vote matters, and you know what not.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
To cut you off. But I said this at a
church last night, and I was trying to help people.
Speaker 7 (45:42):
A lot of people don't know why they have to vote, right,
and so I want to share with people why voting
still matters. Voting is a termine your school funding, your
public safety, your health care access, housing policies, economic development, infrastructure,
and representation. I'm gonna say this, and I'm gonna sit down.
If we are not at the table politically, decisions will
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still be made just without our voice, yes ma'am, Yes ma'am.
And that's why I tell people we got it. So
when you think about Juneteenth, if you're not readistered to
vote at all of our events. It's going to have registration, right,
because we got to make sure the access.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
Is out there, right, Yeah, Yeah, And it's important.
Speaker 6 (46:23):
So and you mentioned earlier about reading how important reading
was to both you and your family, And I'd be
doing my father disservice if I didn't capitalize them and
if I didn't stand on that. The opportunity to read,
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especially historically, has given us the opportunity to see how
all these different perspectives are saying the same thing. These
different people who wrote down their experiences both of civil rights,
both of Jim Crow era, gives us some insight into
the amount of opportunity.
Speaker 4 (47:03):
That we have now.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
And we have to be very conscious of how.
Speaker 6 (47:10):
That history has played a role in our day to
day activities, our day to day mentality, our day to
day participation. Because my father was ten years old during
the heights of the Civil rights era, there's countless stories
from all of his friends and predecessors on how that
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played a role in both how they've approached life and
how that impacted their appreciation for education. And we're living
in a time now where we can participate. We have exposure, yes,
and minorities have to stand on stand on the shoulders
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of our predecessors so that we can make sure that
any future progress is instant immediate and we can make
that we can make that happened.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
And we need to And I think you're gonna so
stick it out there and let me get back to
Tarik and get that mic and tell us what's happening
in Orange Mound.
Speaker 4 (48:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Well, the idea behind us, you know, doing this Juneteenth
on weekend celebration is because of what g A. Hardaway
brought to the table for Ms Blanket Ship, and so
we want to commemorate him at this event. Like I
said earlier, working with TJ is very important because you know,
he brings that voice, that that that that legacy to
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Orange Mount as well, and so giving him that exposure
so the community can know who he is. And so
we we we really want to make this a community
care weekend, community care event where we love on each other,
because without us, who do we have? And so looking
at it from a standpoint of community care, community together,
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this it's gonna be great. I think it's gonna be great.
I'm looking forward to it. You know, classes of mayors
coming now.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
That's gonna be excited. It's going to be all the classes.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
I'm hoping to see all the classes there. So if
you're listening, I want you to be there because again,
this is a celebration for you. You know, we want
to celebrate you want to celebrate the city of Memphis
as well, and so just come on out. It's gonna
be fun.
Speaker 4 (49:25):
I like it.
Speaker 5 (49:26):
I like it, and I'm excited. And you two young men,
I'm excited because we need you, know.
Speaker 4 (49:35):
You.
Speaker 5 (49:35):
I know, I proud because we need new leadership and
you and we need young folks that's gonna step in
and so I like that, so so so so representative.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
Hard away.
Speaker 5 (49:48):
Yes, ma'am, keep on preaching and and and doing it.
And I know you're gonna do a good job and
you're gonna do well.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, and Ireak, I'm proud you stepping
in there, well, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
So I have a background in community clinical psychology and
understanding my experience of what we call the University of
Orange Mound and growing up in South Memphis as well,
it led me to that particular degree path. Learning everything
that I did, I wanted to bring it back to
Memphis working in mental health because I mean, let's think
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about it. You know a lot of people are going
on living with untreated diagnosis. And one of the things
that I really want the people to understand is just
because you talk to someone about your mental health doesn't
mean that that's what you are. They'll give you a
diagnosis to make you aware of the symptoms that you're experiencing,
but that's the starting point to getting you back to
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that normal or whatever normal is for you.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
So I really wanted to so, do you work in
the mental health.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
Yes, ma'am, I working mental health, just ma'am.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
Now, okay. I like that even more so because I
you know, I'm a big advocate for mental health. So good,
good for you. And I'm gonna get this last phone call.
So on w D I a high caller.
Speaker 8 (51:09):
There, w a caller?
Speaker 11 (51:13):
Yes, Dad, Orlando, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (51:15):
I'm doing well, Orlando. How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (51:19):
Pretty good?
Speaker 4 (51:19):
Going pretty good.
Speaker 11 (51:20):
I'm enjoying your show today, especially to Lisa and all
of them up there today. And one of the things
that was brought up was about Hendings Tennancy. Matter of fact,
I'm gonna be leaving Memphis tomorrow going to Birmingham, and
one of the things I do like is history. And
as I have called in you know, and talked about
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history before I go up to Hennings, Tennessee, at least
about once or twice a year, okay. And since I've
been going up there, I tell you I found out
some terrible thing about Memphis. The kids' school kids in Memphis,
he said. I talked to the They got a museum
there right behind the house that Alex Haley's and his
family and them raised up in. And that whole area
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even the town has dried up or a less. All
the shops and things is closing down. It looks terrible,
but we need to be supporting.
Speaker 4 (52:11):
I asked him.
Speaker 11 (52:11):
I said, how many of Missus people from Missus come
up here, and he said it's been.
Speaker 4 (52:16):
Falling off every year.
Speaker 11 (52:19):
That even our schools still when I was a small
child in the school something, they carried us least to.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
The zoo, you know on Thursday.
Speaker 11 (52:30):
Yeah, on Thursday, thank you. And now here it is
we got this stuff they trying to destroy Hennings and
Alex Haley's ladlers said that he gave to us. And
if you go up there now you'll see it.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
It's just terrible that the whole area.
Speaker 11 (52:44):
Seem like they're just dying on the van. They ain't
got a McDonald's or nothing in the town up there anymore. Now,
it's one of the things you can do there if
it's please see, can't you all get the mayor of
Hennings Tendency to come down and talk about or the
museum director at the museum. Okay, Paul Alex to come
down and.
Speaker 4 (53:03):
Talk to the people of Memphis. We need to hear
what he has to say.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
All right, Orlando, thank you, Orlando.
Speaker 11 (53:11):
All right, then you take care of bad.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
You two bye bye.
Speaker 5 (53:14):
Well, we will have to check in, Representative you check
into that here, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
And he brings up a point.
Speaker 6 (53:19):
He brings up a point of what Orange Mound represents specifically,
which is the first black community, not in Tennessee, but
in the United States to be built by black people
for black people, with the resources that they had and
with the knowledge that they had. And we have to
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stand on that history. That's part of learning history is
to know that this was done with nothing. Yes, this
was done with nothing but knowledge and skills. And we
have to bring that to the modern age. We have
to bring that back. We have to look towards each other,
build that community and rebuild community.
Speaker 3 (54:00):
It's in our blood.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
It's in our blood, all right. So tie one of
the folks, come out to Orange Mound.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
Yes, come on now to Orange Mound June twelfth through
the fourteenth. On the twelfth, we're having an adult game
night at the Harriet Performing Arts Center, and then on
the thirteenth at the Orange Mound Community Center from nine
to four we're gonna have vendors, We're going to have
a barbecue contest, We're going to have events and activities
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from all for all ages. And on the fourteenth we're
going to celebrate and worship at Mount Pisco Church.
Speaker 2 (54:38):
Sounds good. And last word you'd like to say, Representative TJ.
Speaker 6 (54:42):
Hardaway, hold me accountable, hold me accountable for what I say,
hold me accountable for what I promise, Hold me accountable
for being in this position, and I guarantee you that
I will return that accountability, solutions and results.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (55:02):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (55:04):
Thank you all for being here today and sharing the
good news. And I'll be calling on your brother again,
both of you brothers, the sisters retired. I know you
helping you, helping we wanted Thanks, actor Tersa Franklin, Tanya Blankenship,
Tarique Smith, and Representative TJ.
Speaker 2 (55:25):
Hardaway.
Speaker 5 (55:25):
Thank you' all as we get ready to go to
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Speaker 5 (01:00):
D I ain't.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well be got me a pissed off?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Good morning, Good morning, good morning, and welcome in to
w d i A The Bev Johnson Show.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I'm Bev.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
It is indeed a pleasure I have you with us
once again on this Tuesday, June second, twenty twenty six.
Enjoy this fibulous day to day. We'll get ready to
get your ears on as we share the good news.
Starting off, we'll talk about juneteenth and happening in Orange Mound.
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Put your ears on for that second hour, we will
ask the expert back in the house, our brother mister
Willie Jacobs. Get your questions ready for those final expense
planning plans.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, so we got a full day to day.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Get ready to talk at nine zero one five three
five nine three four two eight one hundred five zero
three nine three four two eight three three five three
five nine three four to two will.
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Get you in to me. And if.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
This day, this this here day, Tuesday, June or second,
twenty twenty six is your birthday.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Happy birthday to each.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
And every one of y'all out there who may be
celebrating a birthday on this Tuesday, June second, twenty twenty six.
You know it already, Go out and celebrate your life.
You better, you better. When we come back, we'll talk
to some folks. We'll talk about June tenth in my
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neck of the woods, Orange Mound, Tennessee. Next on the Rev.
Johnson Show on doub D I A.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
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Speaker 5 (05:03):
Yeah, I do. Come on, come on, come on, come
on a little joy and pain from count Basic.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It is Black Music month. June is Black.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Music Month, and I want to oh this month, I'm
gonna be playing some of my favorite black music. I
encourage you to go out and get some black music.
You're listening to the heart and soul of Memphis WD.
I A well, I'm excited this morning. Is any anytime
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you talk about my legacy community Orange Mound Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I'm glad to have folks to talk about.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Orange Mound, Tennessee, because that's where my folks came from
on my mother's side. Let me welcome in as we
talk about get ready for June Teeth, June Teeth and
the Orange Mound Collaborative, and let me say good morning.
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My guest is doctor to Lisa Franklin, Missus Tonya Blank
and Chip.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We also have Tarique Smith. Y'all.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
He's a p y t up in here. I got
these p yts up in here. Yeah I do, Yeah,
I do, Yeah, you want to do? And I'm sourpriused.
This is my first time meeting him. He is the
son of my boyfriend of the late G. A. Hardaway,
and I'm glad to have him. C. J. Y'ard away.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
So welcome y'all.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
How y'all doing.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Good? Good? Good to have y'all here, All these smiling faces.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
You bring the joy, you know, I love it, and
I'm glad you all here because when you're talking about
Orange Mound, that's my place, Tennessee historic place, but coming
up more history, and I like that with this doctor
Lisa Rank.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
When we're talking about Juneteenth, how you doing sister. What
you been doing, baby, I've been just doing what I do.
Love God and loving his people. That's all I know
to do. Bail no God and love his people. I've
been seeing you everywhere. I said, I got to Tulise.
She over here, she over here, she's doing this. But
but I love how you work for the community. It's
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all about the community.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
It's you know, we have to literally serve the people
that sometimes feel and nobody serves. And so I just
believe God has called me in that season. Yeah, that's
what freedom looks like for me. So this month, when
they're thinking about JUNI teenh we got to make sure
our community know that they're free.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's right. We gotta make sure and and and you
know what, doctor Tulisa, some people don't even know about
June teenth. They don't. And that's why I don't care what.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
I'm gonna keep preaching it until I get a hundred, y'all,
because I already told the Lord, livingly live, talking one
hundred with my good mind, hold on.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Somebody and talking to snow.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I always said that, even I said, I want to live, yes, Lord,
And I was inspired by my sorority sister's mother missus Bunny,
she lived to be one hundred and five with a
right mind.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I said, maybe won't pass that one hundred. Come out
hey and still have that right mind. Doctor.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
You gotta have a right mind because I want to
buy Look, I want to take care of myself and
keep advocating for my people.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So tell us what's going on with this month with Juneteenth,
oh man.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
One of the blessing poinss about Juneteenth. We celebrate Juneteenth
all month long right here in the city of Memphis,
and so as a President CEO of the Memphis Juneteenth,
I'm always excited to make sure that we celebrate Juneteenth
all over the city and especially in the Mound, y'all.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
So not only when you come out.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
This weekend, of course, is the Memphis June teenth, and
we're right here in Health Sciences part this weekend Friday
and Saturday. But then the following week then we have
Juneteenth and the mind, y'all, a weekend of festivities, and
then we also have Roland Martin. Okay, yeah, but you
know there's something to do. And in the third week
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bell we're gonna be at loc Baby celebrating what June teeth.
So I'm telling people when when you think about June
teen in Memphis, you think about we're not celebrating just
one day. Every weekend, in different parts of our community
there is a Juneteenth celebration and so regardless if you
have transportation, you don't have trans babe, there's a June
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team near you. And I'm excited about all the organizers
around our community that we're all banding together so we
can do one bound, one sound.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
June teenth is the mouse, you know what, doctor Tulisa.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I love that because we can we can celebrate all month, Yes,
and we can and go. You all going to different
locations in the city, and that gives our residents an
opportunity to get there because they if you live in
Orange Mound, where you may not can come to Midtown.
You know you live, you live in Soulsville, you may
not get the Orange Mound.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah, but we.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
Branded to you, baby, and then you know what we
bringing it to you. And you know, this is one
of the things I'm super excited about. Mayor Paul Young
when we had this conversation and even when Strickland was
in office, right, It's like, listen, I don't want it
to be about to Lisa one juneteen, how can I
make it inclusive that everybody feel valued, seen and heard,
because we know we got some transportation issues in our
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community bill, and we got to make sure we have
accessibility to everybody to celebrate June teenth. And one thing
that I love is that I don't care where are
you going and celebrating June teen. We make sure, because
I'm big about history and awareness, that everybody have education material.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So you ain't just gonna celebrate to celebrate.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
You gonna really know why you celebrating because it's the
oldest known celebration for the ending of slavery.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yes, yes, it's real. It's real, real, you know what,
doctor Tuli. So let's talk about it. And I know
Memphis June teen, we're gonna get to the Orange Mound,
so you all are starting first.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Yes, we always start our first. We kick off the
first week of June every year.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now in health sciences. First, let me go back to
the history.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Nathan Bedford Forest Park, which is the slave master of
the KKK. Now we celebrate June tenth on the land
where he thought it was his well, he was buried,
but now he got on y'all and we're celebrating right
there on that spot of ground. If you have to
google it, it's seven eighty nine Madison. It's happening on
this week. And one thing when you said about Black
Music Month, uh huh, it is we we kick off
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with the major stage celebrating music. And so even that
Friday we got Black Love Live. We got from Courtney
Richardson jer I mean, when I tell Courtney Little, y'all know,
y'all know I love me from Cordon right, I love
baby that Black Love Live.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
They set the tone on Friday night.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
And then on Saturday this year we got Chick Rogers
because she with a live band, baby.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Not just with a track. So you know, if y'all
know Trick Chick, she gonna shut it down.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
And so what I meant it ain't sure that we
did not just get cheap, but we also made sure
we got somebody for the young folks.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
So we got Miles Yacht. So when you see me walk,
this's a young folks song.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
You know I ain't that young all the time, but
I know I had to cater to the young folk
because we want to make sure when you come to Juneteenth,
not only visit our historian, our June teenth Museum, outdoor museum.
But you get a free music festival regardless of your
socio economic regardless of what money you got in your bank, bab.
You can come out there and celebrate here, good music
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and enjoy yourself. And that's what is about we as
June teenth organize us all about putting on events that
people could come out and celebrate each other, celebrate culture,
get what they need, and hey, it's all about us.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
This money'all I love it. So starting this weekend, it's
Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Friday and Saturday from eleven to ten pm, Health and
wellness vendors. So come out there, baib as. You know
we're leading with HIV in the Black commun Unity shout
out to Score Health. They're gonna be doing all that
stuff right there on site.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Right.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
So we got health and wellness partners out there, Arts
and craft partners. I got people coming from all over
the world with our vendors. So you see all the
good stuff that you see that is gonna be out there.
Y'all know, we gotta have some good food, right, good food,
but more so it's all about coming together celebrating.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
We got a car and bike show. We got the
Greek scroll off.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
I make sure there's something for everybody to do as
we kick off, and then look like I kick it off,
and then I throw the ball and Orange Mound catch
the ball and they keep drembling that ball with all
the great stuff they got on like that. Friday night
it's a game night, and at the Harriet and then Saturday,
Orange Mound Community Center, all the health and welders in
Sunday who don't need to go to church.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Everybody, everybody, everybody.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
So we got to get the mouth Pisca and tell
the Lord, thank you, tell the Lord yes, yes, yes, yes,
you know, y'all know church. Yes, cat, we're gonna be
a right on the corner of park in Marsha and.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Ill don't play with it in the mind, in the mind,
I told y'all, I told y'all got it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
And doctor Lisa, my great grandmother, was one of the founders.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Wow Mount pisgay so hey yeah, yeah, yeah, hallelujah, God
come out here Jesus.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
But we have to make sure that Friday of June twelfth,
before we do game night earlier, I had to bring
it back.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
It's Blake and ship father I had, Yeah, it's black
and ship father. She was like, can you get rolling?
We had another speaker.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
I was like, let me just go ahead and get rolling, Marne,
because Roland Martin is such an amazing speaker and we
cannot wait to have him back in our city on
next Friday.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm super excited about that, too bad wow wow, because
he ready, He's always ready.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
But we can't forget about LLC, y'all, because y'all know
I'm you know, I'm a studio. I don went back
to school, like I got time for this, I'm taking
you got time for Yeah, I do. That's why I
finn get this other degree because they can't take it
away from right. But I want people to I'm gonna
celebrate Juneteenth at l oc Baby on Juneteenth. It's gonna
be a lot of great things happening.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna talk about Yeah, love it
if you've just and Yeah, we having fun up in
here today.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
We are having fun. I have my very guests in here.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
We are talking about Juneteenth. We will be talking more.
Gonna let these pyts talk. Yeah, We're gonna let them talk, y'all.
We're gonna let them talk. If you have a question
or two for my guests, we do invite you to
call nine zero one, five three five, nine three four
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two eight hundred five zero three nine three four two
eight three three five three five nine three four two.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Will get you in to us. You're listening to the
heart and soul of Memphis.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
W d i A.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Don't go away. The Bev Johnson Show returns after these messages.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Your mind.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
I'm telling you just keep their.
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Rival appear enough. Besjosin Show. Welcome back to w d
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Speaker 5 (16:48):
I'm talking with doctor ter Lisa Franklin, who is the
CEO and president of Memphis Junior Keeenth.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
We have the Tanya Blanken ship in here. We'll be
talking with her and Tariq Smith and c. J. Hard Away.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
We are going to our phone lines to talk with Flynn.
Thank you for waiting.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
Flynn.
Speaker 10 (17:07):
Hi, Flynn, Hey, Beb.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
How you doing.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I'm doing well, Flynn. How are you?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Brother? Hadn't heard from you in a long time, Flynn
been grinding.
Speaker 11 (17:18):
I hear you.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I hear you, brother, I hear you.
Speaker 11 (17:21):
I hear you, BEB.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
I wanted to ask and hello to all you, guess
I wanted to ask Uh, what can they give.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Out some information on how to contact them? Okay, because
we might have something we can contribute to this.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Oh good, So.
Speaker 9 (17:50):
I like for them to look at it. I had
no clue this was going on all month, but this
is good information and ask them to kind of slowly
get back then.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Grab it.
Speaker 10 (18:04):
Okay, that that was it.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
This is okay.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Well, well doctor to Lisa, She'll be happy going Heylan,
thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
So it's Memphis.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
If you always can go to our website at Memphis
juneteenth dot com Memphis juneteenth dot com. But you know,
I'll tell you if I'm an open book, you can
actually take our number as well and text me at
nine zero one two eight one six six three three
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seven nine zero one two eight one six three three seven.
Just shoot me a text and I'd be more than
happy to get back with you.
Speaker 12 (18:44):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
If you rather send something by email is very simple.
It's Memphis juneteenth at gmail dot com. That's easier than anything.
Speaker 9 (18:53):
And missus, yeah, Memphis juneteen at email.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
At gmail gmail. Uh huh, and I at least you
want to say something else.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
And if you if it's directly for the Orange Round Juneteenth,
I want you to call him.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
It's blanket.
Speaker 12 (19:10):
Well, reach out to miss Blanket ship and you can
call me in nine O one two one nine seven
one one one say it one more time one uh
seven one one.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
One seven one.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
What And that's dealing with the Orange Man. Yes, that's
dealing with the Orange Mound Collaborative.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Google.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
Okay, that's great, Thank you so much, Thank you please,
I appreciate it. Bye bye, bye bye.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
And so while we're talking, miss blank and ship twing
your branking ship, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I'm doing well, Today's sister?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Are you?
Speaker 12 (19:45):
I'm doing well?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You're holding on.
Speaker 12 (19:48):
I'm holding on even though I'm having some leg issues.
I'm still pushing through.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Keep pushing through, Yeah, pushing through. So you've been working
with the Orange Mount Collaborative.
Speaker 12 (19:58):
How long we've been doing this? This it's going to
be our sixth year due to mister Honorable Ja Hardaway.
He came to us and asked us to come beside
him to bring in the June teenth in twenty nineteen,
and that's when we started. And from there we've been
carrying you know, this on for you know, honorable on
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Ga Hardaway.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
So yeah, so so tell our listeners what you all
will well before you do that, the Orange Mound Collaborative.
Speaker 12 (20:31):
So let me let me put ga thing spin to it. Okay,
historic Orange Mound Collaborative Group, he used to always get
on mell Tony. It's not the Orange Mount it's the
historic Orange Mount Collaborative Group.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
So let me put that piece on there.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It is historic, are you right? Thank you for correcting me.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I got it.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Okay, I got it. So tell our listeners a little
bit about what you all do in Orange Mount.
Speaker 12 (20:55):
Well, the Orange Mound Collaborative Group is not just focused
just on the June team. We also heard right, helped
with the school went back to school, and we also
helped doing the holidays. So we just not at once
shop stop with June teams. And we do other things, yeah,
you know, on the side. But those are three main
you know pillars that we're working on.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
And basically you're working in the Orange Mound community.
Speaker 12 (21:19):
Yes, and we do you know, collab like we got
the Tuleisian. We collad with some other people to outside
of Orange Mound, like we deal with domestic violence and
good you know stuff like that. So it's just not
good Orange maund We will go outside of our you know, yeah,
you're comfort Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So June chief is coming up, so you all got plans.
Speaker 12 (21:46):
Yes, And so I am one of those ones who
believe in passing the torch. Okay, so I'm going to
pass the torch uh huh to a younger man two
thousand oh two Merrills graduate. What so his aunt, Tyreek
Pettis Smith is now the new chairperson of the Orange
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I mean the Orange Mount Juneteenth Celebration.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
So I will be passing passing the torch over to
Tyreek Pettis Smith, who is a graduate of.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
The He's gonna put it on say it one more time?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Brother. The and the reason I like that because let
me tell you, Tyreek, that that that my parents, my
mother and father were graduates were Golden Wildcats of Melrose
High School. So I told you to know about Orange Mound.
So my my folks graduated from and Carrie before.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You was born.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
I attended Melrose in the first in third grade when
Melrose was one through twelve twelve.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, I know you don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
You I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Great stories.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
So so mss mss Tony has passed you the tour. Yes,
so tell us about what's happening.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
How you feel, I feel great because this is something
that I've always dreamed about, prayed about, and and now
the opportunity is here. So I'm just looking forward to
bringing our community together as well as collaborating with doctor
Franklin to just really make Memphis happy, you know, make
Memphis feel the love that we really have for the
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community in the city. And so it's great that we
have this opportunity to bring it to orams Man.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Okay, so what will you all be doing?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
So on June the twelfth, we'll be hosting an adult
game night at the Harriet Performing Arts Center and and
basically in the heart of Orange Man.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Because that's right there. LaVar Campbell Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
And Penalty, yes, ma'am. And so we're gonna do that.
And with that those game nights, y'all know how we
play video games. We play game board games, Dombino's and spades,
and so with this in that conversation, as we was
developing this particular event, we wanted to say, hey, let's
let's build it around the conversation. Yeah, we're going to
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play games, but instead of talking smack to each other,
we're going to have more conversation around what we need
or the resources that we're looking for within the community.
So not just focus on just the game or not
just focus on the conversation, but bringing it all together
because we you know, we're Orange Mound, right, We're the
city of Memphis, and we really want to bring that
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conversation in a game together so we can really talk
about what we needed now.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
So that will be on the twelfth, June.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Twelfth, ga, yes ma'am, June twelfth, seven to ten. And
then on June the thirteenth, we're going to kick off
the celebration for the June teenth Festival, and so we're
going to start from nine to four. We're going to
have can you q Cook off with the streets in
Orange Mound as well as the classes of Mayl Roads. Yes, wellam,
(25:07):
and so we're going to see who can cook barbecue.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
So, so where will you all be doing that?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
At the Orange Mound Community at.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
The Orangemound Community know where it is, right across from the.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Stadium exactly exactly. And so we're going to cater to
all ages. We're going to cater to the young children
as well. Leads the elders.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh, I like that, that's right? And and and so
that's a fun family event.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yes, yes, yes, because see the idea of having it
for an entire weekend is because we didn't didn't we
did not just want to focus on one day.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
We wanted to make it an entire.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Weekend because everybody can't make it on certain days, so
let's make it into a weekend. And of course on Sunday,
Mount Pisco, we got to celebrate. We got to end
the weekend off correct and uh and just celebrate amongst
each others in worship.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I love that. I love that. That's gonna be fabulous.
Now with the game night, is that absolutely free? Are
are your events all free?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Or so this particular event on game Night, we're asking
for a donation of ten dollars. We're going to feed
it back into the other events that we're having the community.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Okay, okay, I like that.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Yeah, so y'all come on out people who like to
play games, especially those folks who like to play space, and.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
That's gonna be good.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
And then on carry off on that Saturday for barbecue
at the Orange Mound Community Services Center.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Yeah. I like that.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
And then you, being a young man, you know you
can help and help Miss Tony Al because we googles,
we get.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
So we're claiming it now.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
And this young man sitting next to you, and we
know I want, we want to talk to him because
I don't know if you know your your father was
my boyfriend. Oh oh, his father was my boyfriend. State
Representative Ga Hardaway. And let me say, I was so
proud of you stepping into your father's shoes.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, talk to us.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It's good to be here. Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
I've had a great opportunity to hear about my dad's influences.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
In people's lives.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
And it's obvious that he's been an influence in Memphis overall,
and this is an opportunity to give people a chance
to see how he's played a role in the children
that he spoke pretty consistently. But I'm also here for
the hard questions. I'm here for the hard questions. You know,
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we've been properly pr since birth, okay, yes, And there's
you know a considerable amount of questions of my experiences
and my merits and qualifications.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So I'm here to be public.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
And as your dad would always say, and I hope
you're here too, As your dad would say, do the people's.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Work, absolutely absolutely, and.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
People hearing you for the first time, let me tell
us a little bit about you.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Well, I think something that's that's core to anything that
I have a discussion on is my passion for technology.
Our dad was pretty adamant of us being very forward thinking,
while at the same time he invested art and creativity
(28:49):
into my childhood, having several scholarships to Memphis College of
Arts prior to its this it's removing, but that played
a huge role in being able to think creatively and
be aware of the tools that we're surrounded by, and
(29:10):
it puts you in a position, especially now in modern context,
for us to have the difficult conversations so that we
can make immediate change. There's no more waiting anymore. The
tools that we have are so instrumental, so revolutionary that
we can have these we can have these concepts generated
(29:31):
almost instantly, and my dad did a great job of
bringing the community together and rallying people to support each other.
But something that's specific about me personally is the ability
to instrument practical solutions. So and that's something that I'm
(29:53):
very passionate about, something that our dad made sure was
core to our personalities, my brother and my brother and
I specifically, is there's no time.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
To talk about the problem.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
If people are coming to you with the problem, you
don't reflect it back to them. You are a solution,
so you have to come up with a solution to
what they're bringing you. Otherwise it's just an endless cycle
of the same conversation.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
So, and I know for some of our listeners that
you will be stepping in for your dad now, so
I should call you representative, state representative, State representative hardaway.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Wow, as many times as I've heard it, it's natural
to hear, it's natural to hear, and it puts me
in a space where I can make sure that that
legacy is it's consistent, because we all know how things
work where someone passes away and we have to go
on with their lives because at the end of the day, yeah,
(31:02):
we we have ourselves to live for, and we have,
you know, hopefully for a lot of us, our children
to live for.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
But I didn't want that to happen for my dad.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
Okay, things were moving fast enough and historically enough that
it's easy for powerful people to be to be swept
under the rug. And it's it's a duty as a
son to take up your father's mantle.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
I love that, and you are right, I'm getting I'm
getting used to say representative hardaway.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Because because as your dad, you know, he talked to me,
he was on this air, he talked to the people.
As you said, we get problems, but your dad would
work to get solutions.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Absolutely, and I know you're going to be trying to
do that as well.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Absolutely, absolutely. And it's also good to know that I
was a pretty pretty consistent athlete in Memphis. You know
that's gonna be that's gonna be a big talking point.
I already know because Memphis is Memphis core to sports. Yes,
I played football at the University of Memphis as well
(32:16):
as rugby at University of Memphis and Olympic weightlifting at
University of Memphis. Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. Shout out to
Inner city Rugby. Well, that's something that's that's not well
known within Memphis. Memphis has some of the most successful
high school and middle school rugby programs in the country.
(32:38):
Shout out to Inner City Rugby. We have a league
across Memphis that is spanning out even further across Tennessee,
and when it comes to our youth having a positive outlet,
I think rugby played a huge role in that. Of course,
not to downplay football and what football has done for
(32:59):
the community the end, the opportunities that football has presented
to people who have felt disenfranchised, But rugby is a
community sport and gives an opportunity for people who don't
have the resources to fund football programs with excessive apparel
and equipment.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
For rugby, all they need is.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
A ball, and that core principle itself has played a
huge role in my personal development as well.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
This is so, it's so as you take those steps,
your father's steps, you think this is something that you
will pursue further, but you're taking one day at a time.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
You're just gonna So this past month has been committed
to making sure that my father, Ga Hardaway, is permanent,
that his memory is consistent, that it's a household name.
And in the process of doing that, I've had an
(34:01):
opportunity to present myself to have conversations on behalf of
my own interests and my own passions and my own
policy concentration, I guess, and it's been it's been a
(34:21):
lot of support. It's been a lot of support for
who I am personally, and that's been very important for
me to know that if there is a future in
this space, that it's based off of an appreciation for
who I am and what I can bring to the table,
in spite of the fact that my father's poured into
(34:44):
us and instilled a strong sense of all of his
positive characteristics. If you're in a position of service, you
have to be passionate about it. You yes, and you
have to be passionate about your people. And having the
opportunity to present myself not only in the Orange Mound,
Binghampton Historical Glen View, but parts of Cordova have become
(35:09):
aware of my presence and having those conversations has been
hugely impactful for making any future decisions to support the community,
whether it be with with policy or with translating what's
happening for them to the General Assembly in the capital
(35:30):
and vice versa. Transparency, the ability to create transparency between
our government and our citizens is huge and extremely important
now that we're living in an age of information where
you can be misinformed.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
As much as you're uninformed.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
I think, brother, you're gonna do well what he said, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
he come from his DNA tales, right.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
DNA that is your daddy.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
I know, and Tarik, I know you. You are happy
that he's gonna be working. He's gonna work with on him. Yes, yes,
get the microphone so I can hear what you're.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Working with him, even on this event space that we're
working with the Junie teen. He has been a pleasure
in getting to know him. I know he's going to
do a magnificent job and following his dad's legacy but
also creating his own.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Yes, I like it.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
So as we get ready to kind of wrap up things,
Doctor Talisa again, I want you to tell our listeners
what's going on, because y'all we're getting ready to celebrate
June teenth, the Doctor Lisa, we're gonna do this all month,
and also June is black music money. I don't want
y'all forget that. Never, Doctor Tulisa, tell him what's going
on this weekend.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
This weekend Ro's lead to Health Sciences Park, but let
me go back, formerly known as Nathan Bedford Forest Park.
Y'all from Friday and Saturday from ten am to ten
pm every night Friday and Saturday, we celebrating Black Music Month,
and the Grand Stage is there great live music all
day long from bands and singers in state, out of state.
(37:10):
It's gonna be a great time, health and wellness vendors,
great food, out of state of craft vendors. So if
you like the African material and all those artifacts, you
can always come there. But then also I challenge everyone
to come to our outdoor Juneteenth Museum. Okay, it's an
outdoor museum, tell me about this. It's an experience, I really.
(37:31):
So one of my biggest things was when I took
over Juneteenth many years ago and I was asking people
did they know what it was celebrating. The answers I got, unfortunately,
was ludicrous, right, And I was like, I can't have
a celebration and people don't know what they're celebrating exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
And so we have literally a twenty five.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
Think it's a twenty by fifty or twenty by sixty ten,
and it shows you from slavery all the way to now.
And so it took what most impactful when I see
families of all nationalities stand there and they're reading and
they're listening and they're watching. Because we want to make
sure why are you celebrating you have, but you want
(38:08):
to understand the struggle, because what's happening right now, Bill,
They're trying to race our history, right and I declined,
they ain't gonna race our history as long as I'm around,
because I'm gonna keep putting it in front of us.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
But my challenge is to the people that look like me, make.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Sure you tell your children, your grandchildren so they understand
the shoulders in which they stand on is why we're
doing this and that and that's why I love this
outdoor museum. Shout out to my coordinator that leads, Lady
Beverly Davis, and it's instru with because Juneteenth when it.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Was started thirty thirty three years ago. It was started
in their church.
Speaker 7 (38:43):
In Saint Paul Church, Douglas. And so she leads this effort.
And we have a young lady by the name of Kennedy.
She travels from Texas to come down and work to
make sure her young peers understand it's valuable to her
and she want to make sure it's valuable to them.
So listen, if you guys, free emission, come out, go
through the museum, get that information you need and you
(39:05):
can find all things at Juneteenth methig, juneteenth dot com or.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Y'a already know y'all can just google me. I'm Google baby.
Wait a minute to let me go to our phone lines.
I love it. Go to our phone lines. W D
I a hi caller.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Yes, good morning, ladies. How y'all doing today?
Speaker 2 (39:25):
We're doing well? How are you? Carl?
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Fine? I just want to shout in on what on
the less statement that they have made about how they're
trying to erase our history and things like that. Yeah,
and I'm trying to bring it home. We all remember Roots,
right right, the Men series and the second and the
next generation that was done on ABC Television. So I
(39:50):
decided to do some research based on conversation that took
place yesterday when I call Bill's show. Do you know
at the end of closing credits where they showing all
the audis and things at the very end, it showed
that that show was recommended by the National Education Association
in United States of America. My point is, now they're
(40:11):
trying to erase Rustle even being shown in classroom or
being mentioned in the libraries, when it was approved by
the National Education of War almost fifty years ago. Now
they're trying to get rid of it, saying we need
to ban.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
That and and trying to get rid of it in
hitting Tennessee where Alex Haley well in that area.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Did you know that get rid of I didn't know.
I didn't know that part. Oh yeah, sir, yeah, yeah,
So I need to keep up on my research. By
my point is if it was good fifty years ago
by the National Education Association, why isn't it good now?
What happened in the last fifty years what took over? Oh,
(40:56):
certain people want could get rid of our history like
we never before exactly now, So thank you for taking
my calls. I just want to share it with y'all
if you get a chance. Look at Russ again on television.
At the very end, seople, they say the last part
of closing critics.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Okay, thank you, Carl, Thank you, ma'am. I didn't I
didn't know all the critics.
Speaker 5 (41:17):
But yeah, and and and that's why doctor Talisa said,
she's showing the history absolutely.
Speaker 7 (41:24):
And you know, one of the good things, beb I
had a facility that don't look like me, call me
because I travel teaching June teen. But it made my
heart feel good.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
They don't.
Speaker 7 (41:34):
They don't look like me, right, but they wanted to
know about June teen. And so that's what we gotta do.
We gotta keep preaching it because regardless if they look
like us, they don't. They need to know the history
so they can respect the history. And then we as
a people again, we gotta keep telling our children because
what's happening social media and these antheorithm is getting messing
(41:54):
our children up where they're not sitting down picking up
a book or reading. Like I wrote that I should
have brought you what I don't, well, I think about it.
I brought a coloring book. Whether it's a June team,
whether you won or one hundred and one, you gonna
learn some of this activity book because it is imperative
that we teach our children, because if we do not
teach our children, they will repeat history. And I'd be
(42:15):
dang on if I'm allowing anybody on my watch repeat
that I didn't give you the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
I'm gonna take you to the water that you gotta
bend down to drink. That's right, that's right. Now we
got all this in the park. Now you have something
special with Roland.
Speaker 7 (42:28):
Marsh absolutely on June twelfth. Friday, June twelfth, eleven thirty
is our June teenth Awards. Let me tell y'all how
important and not. It's our luncheon and we honor people
and I would love to really share those people. But
I'm really excited about June teenth with Roland coming. We
all know Roland Martin is a very outspoken. Last time
(42:50):
he was here and I'll meet some people, was like, ohter, Lisa,
he was doing this, I said, but can we say
did he say anything?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Was it a lie?
Speaker 5 (42:57):
Now?
Speaker 7 (42:58):
If it was a lie, then I'm ready to have
the conversations because I'm all about that talk, right, But
was it not?
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Some was the truth that we need to address these
issues in our Chocolate city, right?
Speaker 7 (43:09):
And so all I tell people, let's continue to work
together and not work in silos. And that's one thing
I try to make sure a June teen that at
that luncheon, not only that you celebrate June teen, but
you get what you need to go back to your neighborhood,
your community, your church and say I'm going to do
something differently to make sure.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
I empower our people.
Speaker 7 (43:32):
We perish the Bible says because of lack of knowledge
and whether we like the messenger matters. I tell people
sometimes you don't like the way I say it, but
I just say it. The messenger matters.
Speaker 5 (43:43):
Right.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
We got to get the message to our people to
wake up, come out of this sleep.
Speaker 7 (43:48):
So not being commatoes and wake up and let's make
some differences in our community. Memphis is a great place
to live, work, thrive, but we got to understand and
recognize how great we are before anybody else can record exactly.
Speaker 6 (44:01):
And I think that touches on a really important point,
especially with the new districting. Black history is American history,
and participation, lack of participation is how we got to
this point. Lack of participation. Our voting record is not
(44:26):
nearly where it needs to be. The amount of registered
voters to people who actually come to the polls is embarrassing.
It is, and Memphis should be ashamed of that level
of participation.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
And our folks need to be a shame.
Speaker 6 (44:39):
Absolutely absolutely, we are Memphis. We are Memphis, and priority
comes down to minorities. Minorities in Memphis are the most
powerful unit in Tennessee. And that's true economically, that's true
on our voting record. That's true on how we influence
(45:00):
it's culture and society. But we haven't had the opportunities
because one distractions, obvious distractions, and it's on purpose.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
It's on purpose.
Speaker 6 (45:12):
The federal government makes it on purpose that we are
heavily distracted so that we can't participate. And then it
comes back down to individual accountability that we don't participate
because we don't feel included. But voting is not an
individual sport. We think that our vote doesn't matter, but
(45:33):
our vote matters, and you know what not.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
To cut you off. But I said this at a
church last night, and I was trying to help people.
Speaker 7 (45:42):
A lot of people don't know why they have to vote, right,
and so I want to share with people why voting
still matters. Voting is a termine your school funding, your
public safety, your health care access, housing policies, economic development, infrastructure,
and representation. I'm gonna say this, and I'm gonna sit down.
If we are not at the table politically, decisions will
(46:03):
still be made just without our voice, yes ma'am, Yes ma'am.
And that's why I tell people we got it. So
when you think about Juneteenth, if you're not readistered to
vote at all of our events. It's going to have registration, right,
because we got to make sure the access.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
Is out there, right, Yeah, Yeah, And it's important.
Speaker 6 (46:23):
So and you mentioned earlier about reading how important reading
was to both you and your family, And I'd be
doing my father disservice if I didn't capitalize them and
if I didn't stand on that. The opportunity to read,
(46:44):
especially historically, has given us the opportunity to see how
all these different perspectives are saying the same thing. These
different people who wrote down their experiences both of civil rights,
both of Jim Crow era, gives us some insight into
the amount of opportunity.
Speaker 4 (47:03):
That we have now.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
And we have to be very conscious of how.
Speaker 6 (47:10):
That history has played a role in our day to
day activities, our day to day mentality, our day to
day participation. Because my father was ten years old during
the heights of the Civil rights era, there's countless stories
from all of his friends and predecessors on how that
(47:30):
played a role in both how they've approached life and
how that impacted their appreciation for education. And we're living
in a time now where we can participate. We have exposure, yes,
and minorities have to stand on stand on the shoulders
(47:50):
of our predecessors so that we can make sure that
any future progress is instant immediate and we can make
that we can make that happened.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
And we need to And I think you're gonna so
stick it out there and let me get back to
Tarik and get that mic and tell us what's happening
in Orange Mound.
Speaker 4 (48:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Well, the idea behind us, you know, doing this Juneteenth
on weekend celebration is because of what g A. Hardaway
brought to the table for Ms Blanket Ship, and so
we want to commemorate him at this event. Like I
said earlier, working with TJ is very important because you know,
he brings that voice, that that that that legacy to
(48:38):
Orange Mount as well, and so giving him that exposure
so the community can know who he is. And so
we we we really want to make this a community
care weekend, community care event where we love on each other,
because without us, who do we have? And so looking
at it from a standpoint of community care, community together,
(49:00):
this it's gonna be great. I think it's gonna be great.
I'm looking forward to it. You know, classes of mayors
coming now.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
That's gonna be excited. It's going to be all the classes.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
I'm hoping to see all the classes there. So if
you're listening, I want you to be there because again,
this is a celebration for you. You know, we want
to celebrate you want to celebrate the city of Memphis
as well, and so just come on out. It's gonna
be fun.
Speaker 4 (49:25):
I like it.
Speaker 5 (49:26):
I like it, and I'm excited. And you two young men,
I'm excited because we need you, know.
Speaker 4 (49:35):
You.
Speaker 5 (49:35):
I know, I proud because we need new leadership and
you and we need young folks that's gonna step in
and so I like that, so so so so representative.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
Hard away.
Speaker 5 (49:48):
Yes, ma'am, keep on preaching and and and doing it.
And I know you're gonna do a good job and
you're gonna do well.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, and Ireak, I'm proud you stepping
in there, well, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
So I have a background in community clinical psychology and
understanding my experience of what we call the University of
Orange Mound and growing up in South Memphis as well,
it led me to that particular degree path. Learning everything
that I did, I wanted to bring it back to
Memphis working in mental health because I mean, let's think
(50:24):
about it. You know a lot of people are going
on living with untreated diagnosis. And one of the things
that I really want the people to understand is just
because you talk to someone about your mental health doesn't
mean that that's what you are. They'll give you a
diagnosis to make you aware of the symptoms that you're experiencing,
but that's the starting point to getting you back to
(50:44):
that normal or whatever normal is for you.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
So I really wanted to so, do you work in
the mental health.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
Yes, ma'am, I working mental health, just ma'am.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
Now, okay. I like that even more so because I
you know, I'm a big advocate for mental health. So good,
good for you. And I'm gonna get this last phone call.
So on w D I a high caller.
Speaker 8 (51:09):
There, w a caller?
Speaker 11 (51:13):
Yes, Dad, Orlando, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (51:15):
I'm doing well, Orlando. How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (51:19):
Pretty good?
Speaker 4 (51:19):
Going pretty good.
Speaker 11 (51:20):
I'm enjoying your show today, especially to Lisa and all
of them up there today. And one of the things
that was brought up was about Hendings Tennancy. Matter of fact,
I'm gonna be leaving Memphis tomorrow going to Birmingham, and
one of the things I do like is history. And
as I have called in you know, and talked about
(51:41):
history before I go up to Hennings, Tennessee, at least
about once or twice a year, okay. And since I've
been going up there, I tell you I found out
some terrible thing about Memphis. The kids' school kids in Memphis,
he said. I talked to the They got a museum
there right behind the house that Alex Haley's and his
family and them raised up in. And that whole area
(52:03):
even the town has dried up or a less. All
the shops and things is closing down. It looks terrible,
but we need to be supporting.
Speaker 4 (52:11):
I asked him.
Speaker 11 (52:11):
I said, how many of Missus people from Missus come
up here, and he said it's been.
Speaker 4 (52:16):
Falling off every year.
Speaker 11 (52:19):
That even our schools still when I was a small
child in the school something, they carried us least to.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
The zoo, you know on Thursday.
Speaker 11 (52:30):
Yeah, on Thursday, thank you. And now here it is
we got this stuff they trying to destroy Hennings and
Alex Haley's ladlers said that he gave to us. And
if you go up there now you'll see it.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
It's just terrible that the whole area.
Speaker 11 (52:44):
Seem like they're just dying on the van. They ain't
got a McDonald's or nothing in the town up there anymore. Now,
it's one of the things you can do there if
it's please see, can't you all get the mayor of
Hennings Tendency to come down and talk about or the
museum director at the museum. Okay, Paul Alex to come
down and.
Speaker 4 (53:03):
Talk to the people of Memphis. We need to hear
what he has to say.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
All right, Orlando, thank you, Orlando.
Speaker 11 (53:11):
All right, then you take care of bad.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
You two bye bye.
Speaker 5 (53:14):
Well, we will have to check in, Representative you check
into that here, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
And he brings up a point.
Speaker 6 (53:19):
He brings up a point of what Orange Mound represents specifically,
which is the first black community, not in Tennessee, but
in the United States to be built by black people
for black people, with the resources that they had and
with the knowledge that they had. And we have to
(53:40):
stand on that history. That's part of learning history is
to know that this was done with nothing. Yes, this
was done with nothing but knowledge and skills. And we
have to bring that to the modern age. We have
to bring that back. We have to look towards each other,
build that community and rebuild community.
Speaker 3 (54:00):
It's in our blood.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
It's in our blood, all right. So tie one of
the folks, come out to Orange Mound.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
Yes, come on now to Orange Mound June twelfth through
the fourteenth. On the twelfth, we're having an adult game
night at the Harriet Performing Arts Center, and then on
the thirteenth at the Orange Mound Community Center from nine
to four we're gonna have vendors, We're going to have
a barbecue contest, We're going to have events and activities
(54:30):
from all for all ages. And on the fourteenth we're
going to celebrate and worship at Mount Pisco Church.
Speaker 2 (54:38):
Sounds good. And last word you'd like to say, Representative TJ.
Speaker 6 (54:42):
Hardaway, hold me accountable, hold me accountable for what I say,
hold me accountable for what I promise, Hold me accountable
for being in this position, and I guarantee you that
I will return that accountability, solutions and results.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (55:02):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (55:04):
Thank you all for being here today and sharing the
good news. And I'll be calling on your brother again,
both of you brothers, the sisters retired. I know you
helping you, helping we wanted Thanks, actor Tersa Franklin, Tanya Blankenship,
Tarique Smith, and Representative TJ.
Speaker 2 (55:25):
Hardaway.
Speaker 5 (55:25):
Thank you' all as we get ready to go to
the other's side of the BEB Johnson Show on.
Speaker 2 (55:32):
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