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Josh Spickler, executive director of the criminal reform advocacy group Just City, is a member of Mulroy’s transition team. He has seen rsthand how the system works now and how we might see some of Mulroy’s ideas applied in the real world.
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Last week, the [Shelby County General Sessions Criminal Court] judges signed a standing bail order, which is really big news. I’m a bit biased, but it’s one of the best standing bail orders — de nitely in Tennessee, maybe in the country. A standing bail order is a plan put in place and agreed upon by all judges in a jurisdiction. So, all of our General Sessions judges — who are the ones, mostly, in charge of how bail gets set — they’ve agreed to signi cantly change the way they do it. ey agreed to have meaningful hearings any time una ordable bail is being considered as the only means of protecting the community and ensuring the appearance of someone accused of a crime. ey have agreed to have attorneys for both the state and the accused present at those hearings. at’s where Steve’s o ce comes in right from the beginning. When he takes o ce, he is going to have a new responsibility with regard to setting bail. Steve has said in his campaign that he believes fewer people should be held on una ordable money bail. So, if Steve and his assistant DAs follow through on his campaign promise, we’ll begin to see that in those bail hearings. Fewer people will be held in our jail simply because they can’t a ord freedom. at’s a big one. So someone commits a crime, is held in jail until an arraignment hearing, and is just released — with no bail — until their court date? It will be based on what is best for the community and what a judicial commissioner decides is best for that person at the time. at will be determined a er a hearing, which is something we don’t do currently. Currently, we are not considering all of the required factors and are defaulting to bail — a seemingly arbitrary dollar amount — almost 76 to 77 percent of the time in this current system when state law says the rst thing that should be considered is release.
What other reforms will we begin to see IRL?
Josh Spickler: e rst thing to note is what’s not going to change. Steve is going to prioritize public safety and he is going to prioritize violent crime in this community. Steve campaigned on that, and everything he is doing and saying since the election is about that.In terms of reforms and some of the day-to-day, visible changes, I think you’ll very quickly see, because of some good fortune and some timing, a bit of a di erent approach in pretrial detention with regard to the use of money bail. Steve campaigned on his willingness and desire to reform that.
Steve Mulroy is set to be sworn in as Shelby County’s next district attorney general next week, a er winning the seat in this month’s election and naming his transition team last week. Folks are chattering and wondering about what some of Mulroy’s “progressive” ideas on criminal justice will look like o the chalkboard and applied every day in Shelby County. I wanted to know, too, so I asked for professional help.
Steve has also committed to a Post Conviction Justice Unit. He won’t call it that [because] … he’s not just going to look at convictions … looking for wrongful convictions, like looking to overturn something [perhaps] with DNA, for example. Steve has pledged to also look at sentences that may be inappropriate, that might be far too punitive. Anything else? On racial disparities, he’s pledged to not only build an o ce that looks more like Shelby County, but to also understand why it is that outcomes continue to be di erent for people of color versus white people.ese areas will be his focus. ere’s plenty of evidence to suggest that all of that leads to safer, healthier communities, and that’s the ultimate priority. Hopefully, any DA’s priority is to keep us safer, and that’s what Steve is going to do.
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e Tennessee Criminal Court of Appeals failed to grant a new trial to Barry Jamal Martin, in an opinion made public last week. e appeal came from a conviction from the Giles County Circuit Court. Pulaski, the Giles County seat, is known as the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, and Martin’s jury deliberated his fate in what court papers call, simply, “the Confederate Room.” Martin was convicted of possession of cocaine, cannabis, and drug paraphernalia and sentenced to 12 years in con nement. His attorney argued he should get a new trial for many legal reasons concerning evidence, trial errors, and more. But his attorney also argued Martin should be given a new trial because jurors sitting in the “Confederate Room” were exposed to racist ideas that could have swayed their decisions. e frosted-glass top panel of the jury room door displayed the Confederate ag and read “U.D.C. Room” in gold lettering beneath. “U.D.C.” stands for United Daughters of the Confederacy, the group that supplied the memorabilia for the room. e room had two Confederate ags, portraits of Confederate leaders, and Confederate documents. In June, Giles County and the U.D.C. successfully won approval from the Tennessee Historical Commission to move the items from the jury room to the National Confederate Museum in the Elm Springs mansion outside of Columbia. It wasn’t immediately clear if the items had already been moved or not. e move to remove the Confederate memorabilia came a er another Black man, Tim Gilbert, won a new trial in December, arguing that the jury in his case was in uenced by the items in the room. A di erent panel of judges with the Tennessee Court of Appeals approved the new trial and vacated his conviction.atcourtdecided the Confederate ag communicated Black subjugation, was government speech because it was displayed in a government courthouse, and that speech exposed the jury in the Gilbert case to “improper outside in uence.”
But in the Martin case, a di erent panel of Appeals Court judges disagreed. Its ruling said that “the memorabilia in the jury room did not pertain to the defendant, to any fact of the case,” or to other rules that apply to a criminal trial. Further, the panel said they questioned “whether the average citizen would recognize the portraits of Je erson Davis or John C. Brown, the insignia for the United Daughters of the Confederacy, or the third national ag of the Confederate States of America.” However, the well-known Confederate battle ag was framed and on display in the room.
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“ e idea that a Black defendant could receive a fair trial in a room adorned with symbols of white supremacy and slavery is preposterous, and that fact should have been recognized by the court,” said CAIR national communications director Ibrahim Hooper. “ is ruling may unfortunately prevent a necessary reexamination of possible unjust, biased convictions of Black defendants.” WATCH By Toby Sells
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“It’s a black-sheep team from Naruto, a popular anime … Akatsuki … Inkatsuki, a team of dope, black-sheep tattoo artists,” Ross said. He added that he has been a longtime fan of anime, dating back to the days where his cousin would collect Dragon Ball Z action gures. Inkatsuki, located on Lamar Avenue, is the rst anime-themed tattoo shop in Memphis. Ross originally opened a private shop under the same name on Airways back in 2021, but recently moved into a bigger space in April. Ross and his team also specialize in wood carving, shoe customizations, piercings, gra ti, paintings, T-shirts, and more.
“ e teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I just blurted out, ‘I want to be a tattoo artist,’ and I went back to drawing on someone’s arm,” Ross said. “I was rebellious at the time, but I ended up becoming a tattoo artist for real.”
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Ross’ shop recently went viral on Facebook, with a post that has more than 2,000 shares and close to 700 likes. e post is ooded with comments and reactions from prospective customers expressing their excitement for this one-of-a-kind experience and those eager to hop onto Ross’ table hoping for sleeves dedicated to showcasing their love for anime.
hen walking into Inkatsuki Tattoos, one may feel as if they’ve been transported into the ultimate fandom fantasy. e walls are adorned with anime lore including posters from My Hero Academia and pixel art made from Perler beads of Lu y and Saitama from One Piece. An enviable Funko Pop collection featuring Charizard, Mirio Togata, Tomura Shigaraki, and Laxus Dreyar is housed in the same vicinity of a gurine army featuring Naruto and Todoroki. e store’s name itself is even a nod to anime culture, juxtaposed with tattoo artistry, according to Jarvis Ross, the shop’s owner. Ross took the name “akatsuki,” which is what he described as a “black-sheep team.”
“I’m deep into anime, and I have an anime community on Facebook as well [Memphis Hidden Leaf Village],” Ross said. “So, I used [anime] as my theme for my shop.”
While Ross’ classroom would serve as a primitive shop, he explained that he didn’t really get into tattooing until he was in college.
One of the most formative settings for Ross’ early work was during grade school, where he says that he would be in the back of the classroom drawing. While most students used their notebook margins and desks as canvases, Ross used his and his classmates’ arms.
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“I used to spend my money on tattoos,” he said. “I asked the man who was doing my tattoos, ‘How much do you make in a day?’ He said anywhere from 50 [dollars] to 1,000 depending on your clientele and how much work you put intoRossit.” says on that same day, the artist let him practice his rst tattoo on himself on the spot. “I tattooed, ‘I did this myself,’ on my leg,” he said.
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District Attorneyelect MulroyStevetook the opportunity last week to name the members of his newly created transition team, to be chaired by outgoing County Commissioner and local NAACP head Van Turner Turner, who recently acknowledged that he would be a candidate for mayor in next year’s Memphis city election, promised “a thorough, top-to-bottom review of the operations, priorities, and sta ng of the District Attorney’s O ce.”
• Meanwhile, the Shelby County Republican Party, having been defeated for all countywide positions in the recent August 4th election, is doing its best to retain optimism. Looking ahead to the next go-round, the federal-state general election of November 8th, the local GOP held a fundraiser Friday at the South Memphis headquarters of the Rev. Frederick Tappan, who will oppose Democratic nominee (and recently appointed incumbent) London Lamar for the District 33 state Senate SenatoroccasionImportedseat.forthewasstate Ken Yager of Kingston, the GOP’s Senate caucus chair, who assured local Republicans, for what it was worth, that “the Republican leadership are 100 percent committed to the election of Frederick Tappan.”Tappan, pastor of Eureka TrueVine Baptist Church and founder of L.I.F.E. Changing Ministries, sounded his own note of commitment: “We can do this if we come together. We need one mind, have one mission, to become one Memphis. We don’t lean to the le , we don’t lean to the right.”
Vaughn mentioned several of the party’s legislative candidates, including state Senator Kevin Vaughan, state representatives Mark White and John Gillespie, and state Senate candidate Brent Taylor. “We have a chance to rectify the situation. And we have an opportunity, not just to nish, but to nish well.”
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Other members of the transition team are: District 29 state Senator Raumesh Akbari (D); District 83 state Representative Mark White (R); Demetria Frank, associate dean for diversity and inclusion at the University of Memphis Law School; Richard Hall, chief of police, city of Germantown; Muriel Malone, executive director of the Tennessee Human Rights Commission and former Shelby County assistant DA; Kevin Rardin, retired member of the Public Defender’s O ce and former Shelby County assistant DA; Mike Carpenter, director of marketing and development for My Cup of Tea; Yonée Gibson and Josh Spickler of Just City; and attorneys Jake Brown, Kamilah Turner, Brice Timmons, and Mike Working • Paul Young, the director of the Downtown Memphis Commission, gave members of the Kiwanis Club a comprehensive review of current and future projects for Downtown development on Wednesday of last week. One matter of public curiosity did not go unspoken to in the subsequent Q&A. Would he, someone asked, be a candidate for Memphis mayor next year as has been rumored? Young’s reply: “Obviously, we’ve had a lot of conversations. And you know, it’s not time for any type of announcements or anything like that. I’m gonna continue to do the job at DMC to the best of my ability, regardless of when the season comes for the mayor’s race, but we de nitely have had discussions.”
GOP chair Cary Vaughn, who would probably admit leaning somewhat to the right, said, “We took it on the chin a few weeks ago. But that was not the nish line. at was the starting line for November 8th, we’ve got a chance to redeem ourselves.”
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A sad category includes the things used once or even never. Usually these are very specialized solutions that either did not work or proved to be too unrealistic or cumbersome. Sometimes they are simply impulse purchases that probably would never have been ordered if I forced myself to keep them in the cart for a week. Even worse, there are problems that could have been solved with items on hand. For example, I have approximately a zillion HDMI cables at the bottom of a tangled bin somewhere, but I’ve continued to buy them over the years because it’s easier than tracking one down. is is probably an example of one of the worst aspects of consumerism. My Amazon safari was eye-opening, and everyone’s experience is likely to be di erent. All spending decisions are based on trade-o s — spending vs. saving, time vs. money, money vs. emotions, consumption vs. conservation, and so on. Seeing the good purchases I have made was rewarding and seeing the countless purchases I have no use for today — or maybe never did — will hopefully help guide me in the right spending direction goingYouforward.should take a look yourself if you use Amazon frequently — you too might nd it a fun journey down memory lane as well as a sobering re ection of your own nancial history! Gene Gard is Chief Investment O cer at Telarray, a Memphis-based wealth management rm that helps families navigate investment, tax, estate, and retirement decisions. Ask him your questions or schedule an objective, no-pressure portfolio review at letstalk@telarrayadvisors.com. Sign up for the next free online seminar on the Events tab at telarrayadvisors.com.
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I noticed recently that amazon.com order history is very detailed, can be easily extracted, and never is purged. ere is nothing special about Amazon orders, or online vs. in-person buying in general, except it is rare to have such comprehensive buying info all in one place. I have Amazon purchases I can review going back to the year 2000 — a unique time capsule. Just like the addresses in my Amazon address book, it is a diary of my life and where I have been over the years. Here are some thoughts on what I see in my data from a nancial perspective.
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One large category is consumables like food and furnace lters, which mostly can be ignored. However, I have learned that it’s worth checking the price at local grocery stores since sometimes the cost of shipping baked in can have a big impact on the nal price. I wish I had all the money back that I spent on DVDs and CDs, since they have no place in my life anymore. I also wish I had the money back that I spent on most books — I love reading, but I could have borrowed most of these from a library (you can get anything via interlibrary loan!). A erward, I could have bought only the ones that proved meaningful to me, as the vast majority sit idle or have been donated over the years. One of the most satisfying categories is DIY supplies (sometimes expensive) that solved important problems and saved signi cant money, like a new starter for my 1999 Accord or a new faucet cartridge that saved a visit from the plumber.
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My favorite category, just like Fisker, is things bought years ago and still used frequently, like the ip- ops I see sitting in the corner I bought in 2013 or my wife’s sunglasses from 2014 she still wears daily. ings in this category are shockingly few and far between. I’m actually going through the thousands of things I have bought to see how many are still in service by vintage year. Maybe we’ll have a followup article with some of that data — I’d like to learn how to buy more of this stu and less of everything else.
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COVER STORY By Chris McCoy merica has a mental health problem.Angry outbursts in public seem more frequent. Anxiety thrums like a background hum. Everyone knows someone struggling with substance abuse, and opioid overdoses are distressingly common. Maybe you are having trouble getting out of bed, connecting with other people, and experiencing anything but sadness and dissociation. It’s not an illusion. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, before the Covid-19 pandemic exploded in March 2020, 21 percent of all Americans — approximately one in ve — had some form of mental illness. At the height of the pandemic, that number rose to 40 percent. Last March, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the pandemic had led to a 25 percent increase in depression and anxiety worldwide.
“Loneliness; fear of infection, suffering, and death for oneself and for loved ones; bereavement; and nancial worries have all been cited as stressors leading to anxiety and depression. Among health workers, exhaustion has been a major trigger for suicidal thinking,” the WHO report read. Furthermore, “ e latest Global Burden of Disease study shows that the pandemic has a ected the mental health of young people, and that they are disproportionately at risk of suicidal and selfharmingLauriebehaviors.”Powell,CEO of Alliance Healthcare Services, has been on the front lines of behavioral healthcare since 1993, when she started as a therapist in Orange Mound. In August 2020, Powell’s husband died of cancer at the height of the pandemic. She and her two sons were unable to visit him in the hospital. “I just saw on the news that in the United States more people have died from Covid-19 than any other country, and that was kind of hard to hear,” she says. “Now, think about what that is doing to all of those families, how it’s impacting so many on a personal level. I didn’t think my husband would die at age 61. And there are so many stories out there just like that. Many of our sta , if you talk to them, every third person here is going to say either they treated someone whose family member died because of Covid, or because they were so depressed.” It’s not just Covid. e last two and a half years have also seen an increase in gun violence. “ is morning, I got the call at 4 a.m. from one of the community residents to tell me about the shooting of seven people up by the hospital, up the street from our house,” says Charlie A. Caswell Jr., executive director of Legacy of Legends CDC and Shelby County commissioner-elect for District 6. “We had a mental health epidemic that was recognized by the Center for Disease Control before the pandemic of Covid,” he says. “But I believe the Covid pandemic has produced a new wave in our community, and a large part goes back to last year. It’s been pressed down on people even more now that people tried to get back to doing business as normal, when normal was not even normal! People who didn’t have access to mental health counseling have to deal with what they were already dealing with, and now it’s even more on top of that.”
IT’S OKAY TO NOT BE OKAY
Furthermore, “I know that we’re seeing people with more needs,” says Powell. Even as the number of individuals served across the Alliance system went down by about 7 percent between 2019 and 2022, the number of services provided — things like case management, individual and group therapy, and medication — increased by 3.9 percent.Powell says there is a shortage of mental health professionals, making it more di cult for everyone to receive the care they need. “I’ve looked online, just to check myself, and some of them say, ‘Not taking new patients.’ I used to never see that. ere’s just not enough to go around. We’ve had people leave mental health to go into, like, medical social work because they said, ‘I’m not sure if I can continue to be a therapist right now.’”
“We do have the largest crisis services in the entire state, and probably one of the largest in the country,” says Powell.
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In contrast, between April and May 2020, the number of calls to the Alliance outpatient help-line tripled. And those call numbers have remained elevated. In July 2019, 540 people in crisis called the help-line; in July 2021, that number was 1,268. Last month, the Alliance crisis line elded 1,052 calls.
Mental health professionals also need to be “culturally competent” to meet the needs of their patients.
“ ere’s de nitely a need for more Black and Brown therapists,” says Wil-
PHOTO: COURTESY DANA WILSON Dana Wilson, president and CEO of Bridges USA
In January 2020, Dana Wilson became president and CEO of Bridges USA, a 501(c)3 nonpro t that seeks to “unite and inspire diverse young people to become con dent and courageous leaders.” Wilson, who had been working with youth leaders at Bridges for more than a decade, already had her sights set on youth mental health when the pandemic struck. “I think the writing was already on the wall prior to the pandemic,” she says. “I don’t want to say the pandemic created a mental health crisis — we’ve been in this for a while.” Bridges used part of the initial round of funding from the federal CARES act to study access to mental healthcare. “What we found in that initial research was that, while there are services technically available, most of the time you don’t know how to get to them. ere’s no coordination system. It seems very fragmented. If someone says, ‘I need this thing,’ and someone over there says, ‘I could do that thing’, there’s no way to get those two together easily or uidly.”Another issue uncovered in the early sessions with the Shelby County Youth Council was addressing the shame attached to mental health treatment. “We need to talk about destigmatizing mental health,” says Wilson. “It’s okay to not be Abdullahokay.”Elahi is an upcoming senior at Memphis University School. “ ere wasn’t that much of an emphasis on mental health before the pandemic,” he Whensays. he became a Bridge Builders Change Fellow, he says, “It really opened my eyes because I was like, oh my goodness, this is something that me and my friends are struggling with so much. … My group is called MEM: Mental and Emotional Health Matters. What we do is try to bring mental health resources to the Shelby County Schools. e other goal we have is, we want to break the stigma surrounding mentalAlice,health.”whostruggled to nd help for her child, says, “If we don’t provide mental healthcare in the schools, kids aren’t going to get it.”
11 memphisflyer.com STORYCOVER a community mental health network in rural West Tennessee. When schools closed in 2020, he says, “decreased inperson social connectivity really hurt the public school students’ development because they were out of school for a whole year. I really think that was a developmental detriment, even though we were trying to keep them safe and their families safe. But decreased social connectivity can probably be directly linked to some of this as well.”
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PHOTO: COURTESY CHARLIE CASWELL Charlie A. Caswell Jr., Shelby County commissioner-elect for District 6 child living in poverty
No One to Talk to Today, those who need help the most are having trouble nding it. Alice (who requested a pseudonym to maintain her privacy) is a mother who spent nine months seeking help for her pre-adolescent, who was su ering from intense post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). “ ere are only a handful of places, and they’re all booked up — and none of them take TennCare,” she says. Employer-based health insurance and Medicare will typically pay $65 for a one-hour counseling session. But due to low reimbursement rates and the spiraling hassles of dealing with insurance companies, many psychiatrists and therapists in Shelby County no longer accept health insurance of any kind. Adolescent care sessions can run from $150 to $175 an hour. “ e crisis here in Memphis is that we have so many people living in poverty; there aren’t enough providers who take a sliding scale or who will take insurance at all,” Alice says. “ e breakdown in those systems is so much more evident now.” Dr. Trautman agrees. “We do have a child mental health problem or crisis in Memphis. It’s a public health crisis because of the lack of availability of mental health services but also just because of poverty. We live in an area that socioeconomically struggles, historically. And so I think all those things kind of go together. Why are they having a hard time? Well, they’ve been economically precarious all their lives.” “Every child living in poverty has elements of PTSD, anxiety, and depression,” says AccordingAlice.to gures provided by the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, 7.1 percent of Tennesseans — approximately 378,020 people — su er from serious mental illness. In Shelby County, 13.7 percent of those seeking treatment in 2019 were uninsured and served by the Tennessee behavioral health safety net. “Looking at the need for services during the pandemic, we actually saw a decrease,” says Matthew Parriott, director of communications for the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
The Search for Solutions
During scal year 2019, Alliance Healthcare, who contracts with the state to provide mobile crisis services, performed 16,317 patient assessments. In scal year 2022, which included the worst days of the pandemic, Alliance performed 12,878 assessments — a 21 percentPowelldecrease.saysthose numbers don’t tell the whole story. “A lot of the calls we get are from emergency rooms, and people were not going to emergency rooms because of the pandemic.”
Among the needs in the schools are early intervention access, says Wilson. “ ere might be funding and support if you have a diagnosis, but if you don’t have a diagnosis and you’re struggling, you just might need a few counseling sessions to help you get through whatever the situation is. Especially during the pandemic, there was a lot of situational anxiety and depression.”
PHOTO: COURTESY ABDULLAH ELAHI Abdullah Elahi, an upcoming senior at MUS
Signs of Progress Among the reforms MEM advocated was establishing “reset rooms” in schools. “They’re spaces in schools in which students can go if they’re feeling stressed-out,” says Elahi. “They can reset and calm themselves down, center and ground themselves.”
son. “In Memphis, for example, the vast majority of the people that we could find were mostly white, middle-class women — a very traditional [demo graphic] for social work and therapy. There’s a lack of people who can treat students who are non-gender-conform ing, LGBTQ+ students who experience mental health issues at a higher rate, statistically.”Thethird major reform Bridges identified was the need to stop the criminalization of children for their mental health issues. “Unaddressed trauma is part of what is driving the school-to-prison pipeline,” says Wilson. “If a young person’s getting in trouble in school and there’s not adequate intervention early enough, then the stu dent gets suspended or does something that’s not acceptable and gets pushed out of school. If you get suspended multiple times from school, you’re more likely to drop out.” Once out of school, troubled adoles cents can get pulled into serious, even violent, criminal behavior. Dr. Traut man says the problem is made worse by what he calls “easy access to lethal means.” He and many other special ists believe that the urge to charge teen criminals as adults is misguided and counterproductive. “There’s a mountain of data which shows that the adolescent brain is still very moldable and not set in stone. With proper intervention, you can change their habits. You can change the way of thinking. You can help them integrate into society and be more productive members and also happier. I mean, you’re not riding around killing people because you’re happy and welladjusted.”
Healthcare will soon be opening a new telehealth center in Binghampton. “A lot of people reaching out to us have access barriers, so we’ve increased telehealth during this pan demic,” Powell says. “That’s exploded. We went from maybe 5 percent tele health to 80 percent telehealth during the pandemic, and some people really want to continue telehealth. So we’re going to offer that, if that would remove the barrier to getting help.”
In October, Dr. Trautman’s group Professional Care Services is opening a new Memphis child and adolescent psychiatry facility at 6601 Poplar Ave nue, which will accept health insurance. “Right now, we have three [doctors], but we will grow to the need,” he says. The state is committing significant new resources to mental healthcare. “Our current fiscal year budget which just started on July 1st is truly historic,” says Parriott. “Thanks to the generos ity of Governor Lee, the Tennessee General Assembly, and our federal partners, we have more than $560 million to support the mental health and substance use prevention, early intervention, treatment, and recovery needs of Tennesseans — most of whom have no means to pay. We’re especially excited about the $18 million we re ceived for provider rate increases. This funding has already gone out to our contracted community mental health and substance use disorder providers to allow them to increase pay rates for staff retention and recruitment. We’ve heard from folks across the state that this funding is already making a huge impact.”Alliance
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Caswell, a longtime advocate for mental health in the Black community, launched his successful run for county commission “to go upstream and push policy changes that address many of those issues we face downstream. … I would say to the community as a whole, we have to be intentional. Shelby County can become a trauma-in formed, trauma-responsive community. That means, for all of the employees and the work that we do, we do it with more empathy and more understand ing, coming out of this pandemic. If someone is coming in for help or call ing for help, it’s not because something is wrong with them. We ask, ‘What happened to them?’”
Is therapy by videoconference as effective as a traditional office visit? “I think it depends on the person and the age,” says Powell. “Kids really like it.”
The advocacy was effective, and now reset rooms, staffed with counselors, are a common feature in Shelby County Schools. “They feel really proud of doing it, but the students are the ones who said, ‘We need this,’” says Wilson. “And that’s part of decriminalization, because you’re getting someone the support they need before they get to a point where they can get in trouble for having a problem.”
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“We consider our work to be healing work,” she says, “but we were in a moment when we recognized even within our own very healthy organization, by most respects, we had a number of stories where mental health was a central character. … And we didn’t really have a direct way of talking about that with each other. at was true before 2021, before the pandemic, and now it’s kind of on Assteroids.”such,the group has turned its attention to seeking clarity for the sake of mental health and has invited the community to join in this pursuit with its Listening for a Change Week. “It’s an initiative on our part to explore new pathways and partnerships for mental health and healing through the arts,” Murphy says. “We know that we have this incredible therapeutic tool, and we feel like it’s an untapped resource in our community.”
PHOTO: COURTESY PLAYBACK MEMPHIS Playback Memphis strives to destigmatize mental health.
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e night will feature musical performances by Grammy-nominated Hi Rhythm, Marcus Scott, and many more guest artists, from the classic music of Willie Mitchell, Al Green, Ann Peebles, Otis Clay, and O. V. Wright to the current Royal hits “Uptown Funk” and more.
A er the performance, Jennifer Balink of Kindred Place will facilitate a conversation to re ect on the shared experience of the performance. Murphy says, “We want people to walk out a er and feel like they are taking away something that will nourish and support them out of the theater.”
Ruby Bridges Reading Festival National Civil Rights Museum, Saturday, August 27, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., free Children pre-K through elementary school can not only receive free books at the festival but can also enjoy storytelling and entertainment with Ruby Bridges, who will read and sign her books rough My Eyes and is Is Your Time Guys and Dolls eatre Memphis, performances through Sept. 11, $35 Fun and sassy, this Manhattanbased musical romantic comedy tells the overlapping stories of high-roller Sky Masterson and rapscallion gambler Nathan Detroit. As they look to set up the largest craps game in town, they are derailed, respectively, by two women: a straight-laced missionary and a headliner at the Hot Box Club. All the shenanigans of these seemingly incompatible couples take us from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and eventually everyone ends up right where theyPerformancesbelong. run ursdaysSaturdays at 7:30 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.
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On Saturday, Snow will join in a Playback performance with audience members sharing a personal story or re ection for the ensemble cast of actors, dancers, musicians, and poets to reimagine on the stage. “It’s done in the service of building empathy and awareness,” Murphy says. “You may share a story and see it played back and may see something you hadn’t really considered before. … Not everyone shares, and if you’re in the role of witness, that’s a really important role as well. It helps a lot with perspective.”
Mental health concerns seem to be on everyone’s minds these days, as evidenced in this week’s cover story, and Virginia Murphy, founder and executive director of Playback Memphis, has found that true within Playback’s group of professional artists who bring audience stories to life with improvisation, dance, and music.
For the Listening for a Change Week, Chesney Snow, a New York City-based, award-winning performing artist and pioneer in beatbox culture, will lead a choreopoem workshop, open to the public, this ursday. e workshop will give insight into sharing personal stories and using art as a medium for social healing. e event will also include excerpts of Snow’s original choreopoem performance, e Unwritten Law, which explores the artist’s personal journey “from a legacy of incarceration to fatherhood, homelessness to Harvard, to ultimately starring on Broadway.”
Grind City Fest Grind City Brewing Company, FridaySaturday, August 26-27, $35/one-day pass, $65/two-day pass, $125/VIP Grind City Fest attendees will enjoy a mix of performances by national, regional, and local blues and bluegrass artists. Scheduled performers include Greensky Bluegrass, e Infamous Stringdusters, Here Come the Mummies, e Travelin’ McCourys, Saxsquatch, Kyle Nix & e 38s, and e Wild Feathers.
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A er the workshop, Playback will host a free community gathering with Snow at 5:30 p.m. at the Frayser Community Development Corporation garden. You do not have to attend the workshop to join, and light refreshments will be available.
LISTENING FOR A CHANGE: MEMPHIS MATTERS, THEATRESOUTH AT FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 7 P.M., $10-$30. e Musical History of Royal Studios narrated by Boo Mitchell Halloran Centre, Friday, August 26, 7:30 p.m., $37.50 Boo Mitchell and Hi Rhythm will take you on a musically guided journey of the more than 60-year history of Willie Mitchell and his iconic Royal Studios. Hear the stories and the music that made Royal one of the biggest producers of soul music and the current hits that cement Royal’s hit-making ability for future generations.
“I’ve wanted to do this type of show for a minute,” notes Mitchell in his typically laid-back way. “I thought it would be cool to showcase the music and the history, and let people learn some stu they probably didn’t know.” Many may not realize, for example, that Royal, a cinema that was converted into a recording space in 1956, is one of the oldest continuously running studios in the world. As such, there will be a lot of history to cover in Friday’s show, going back to Willie Mitchell’s early days at Hi Records, based at Royal. As Mitchell notes, “It’ll be an actionpacked show, full of stories that people don’t know about. It’s about Royal, but it will focus on Willie Mitchell and the stu he had to go through to get where he was, and to get Royal where it is. at’s the glue. You can’t tell the story without covering Willie Mitchell, so there’ll be some Willie Mitchell songs. Like ‘Soul Serenade’ and ‘20-75.’ ose were two pivotal tracks. ‘20-75’ was the rst song that Willie Instrumentalsengineered.”werewhat put Hi Records on the map, going back to Bill Black’s Combo. But when trumpeter Willie Mitchell joined the label, he took the instrumental approach to a new, jazzier level. And once he got behind the mixing board, he made them snap, crackle, and pop. What’s remarkable about the Halloran show is that members of the same band that recorded those early hits, namely the Hodges brothers, are still playing in Memphis. Indeed, they’re still recording new hits at Royal today. While Charles and Leroy’s brother Mabon “Teenie” Hodges passed away in 2014, Michael Toles, who rst played with the Bar-Kays, and then Isaac Hayes’ band, will play guitar; Steve Potts will ll in for the late Howard Grimes’ and Al Jackson Jr.’s places on the drum throne. But the Hi Rhythm Section might more appropriately be called the Royal Rhythm Section, as their unique chemistry has continued to be caught on tape at the studio, long a er the label folded. Of course, Mitchell, who grew up in the studio under Willie’s wing, is on a rst-name basis with the label’s greatest hitmakers. “We’ll play some Al [Green], Otis [Clay], Ann [Peebles], Syl [Johnson], and O. V. [Wright] songs,” he notes, before adding, “but we’ll also do a few of the more modern things by John Mayer and [Silk Sonic’s] ‘Smokin’ Out the Window’ and a couple of the new joints. And of course, ‘Uptown Funk.’” A rotating cast of stellar singers will be fronting the band, including Marcus Scott (former lead singer of Tower of Power), Lil Rounds (American Idol nalist), Gerald Richardson (Cameo), and Ashton Riker (Stax Music Academy alumnus).
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PHOTO: RONNIE BOOZE (L-R) Leroy Hodges, Charles Hodges, Hubbie Turner
t was only a few months ago that this writer was privy to a stunning set of interviews with the remaining members of the Hi Rhythm Section. Hearing the Rev. Charles Hodges (organ), Archie “Hubbie” Turner (keyboardist), and Leroy “Flick” Hodges (bass) share stories from recording Al Green tracks in the very studio where it happened was a brilliant moment, but I kept wanting to hear them play some music. At Royal Studios, that’s what it’s all about.Now,the general public can be privy to both the stories and the songs, played by the very musicians who were there. is Friday, August 26th, the Halloran Centre will present e Musical History of Royal Studios, narrated by producer, engineer, and studio co-owner Boo Mitchell. A musically driven journey through more than 60 years of history, the stories will center on the journey of Boo’s father, the late Willie Mitchell, and his iconic Royal Studios.
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Mitchell himself, though a ne pianist, will not play. He does hint that he may join the band on a unique ’70s instrument featured on one of Royal’s most iconic hits. “I may play the electronic bongo device for ‘I Can’t Stand the Rain,’” he says. “But mostly I’ll be sitting on stage, narrating the whole thing. Telling stories, showing pictures. en the band will play the music I talk about.”
Royal Studios comes to life onstage at the Halloran Centre. Songs and Stories
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A Philadelphia sound-effects man witnesses and records a car accident that turns out to be a politically motivated murder. $5. Thursday, Aug. 25, 7:30 p.m. CROSSTOWN THEATER Spice World Get ready for a madcap musi cal adventure with the Spice Girls. Stick around after the movie for a ’90s dance pop music hangout. Free. Thurs day, Aug. 25, 7 p.m.
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THEATRE MEMPHIS Something Rotten When Nick and Nigel Bottom decide their theatre troupe rivals that of William Shakespeare, the best way to beat him is to hire a soothsayer and write a musi cal about eggs … right? $30. Through Sept. 18. PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE
The Focus Awards are the Mid-South’s premier awards for recognizing LGBTQ+ persons and allies. Friday, Aug. 26, 6:30-9 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART Vitalant Blood Drive Schedule a time to donate blood at donor.vitalant.org. Sunday, Aug. 28, 9:30 a.m.-noon. ST. LUKE LUTHERAN CHURCH FESTIVAL 7th Annual Indie Memphis Youth Film Fest
THEATER 38th Ostrander Awards Honoring the best in local the ater. $15-$20. Sunday, Aug. 28, 7-10 p.m. THE HALLORAN CENTRE Guys and Dolls This musical romantic comedy tells the overlapping stories of high-roller Sky Masterson and rapscallion gambler Nathan Detroit. Through Sept. 11.
16 202225-31,August ART AND EXHIBITSSPECIAL “Art of the African Diaspora” Exhibition of historic and contemporary art that questions and complicates the often-used term, “diaspora.” Through Aug. 29. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART “Liminality” Exhibition of work by Sepideh Dashti. Saturday, Aug. 27-Oct. 8. BEVERLY + SAM ROSS GALLERY “Summer Group Show” See new work from artists as summer comes to a close. Through Aug. 27. L ROSS GALLERY We Art Gallery Featuring as many as 50 local artists. Through Aug. 29. WOMAN’S EXCHANGE ART GALLERY ART HAPPENINGS Henry Ossawa Tanner: Spirituality as a Subject A discussion of Henry Ossawa Tanner’s ground-breaking career and his profound influ ence on Black American art and artists of the early 20th century. Free. Wednesday, Aug. 31, 6 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART BOOK EVENTS Meet the Author: Terrice Thomas Novel welcomes Terrice Thomas to celebrate the release of Mentor Coaching Tuesday, Aug. 30, 6 p.m. NOVEL COMEDY
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SARDIS LAKE RESERVOIR LECTURE Wonders of the Webb Telescope View the exciting space images in MoSH’s planetarium, and grab some swag. $14. Saturday, Aug. 27, 8-10 p.m.
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THEATRESOUTH Poetic Blues Flow Yella P provides live entertainment with a laid-back bluesy sound while local poets share their creative word flow! $10$15. Sunday, Aug. 28, 7-10 p.m.
Listening for a Change: Memphis Matters A Playback Memphis per formance with a Talk Back following the show about the power of arts to strengthen community healing. $10-$30. Saturday, Aug. 27, 7 p.m.
The Rated R Comedy Show: Don’t Be a Menace An adult stand-up comedy show, infused with hip-hop and R&B, with this edition taking you on a ride to South Memphis. $20. Friday, Aug. 26, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 27, 8 p.m. THE COMEDY JUNT COMMUNITY Ales for All Benefiting ALLMemphis, which is dedicated to ensuring educational equity for all stu dents. $20. Thursday, Aug. 25, 5-8 p.m. WISEACRE BREWERY Bowling for Balls IX A charity fundraiser supporting Mid-South Men’s Health. Free pizza, drinks, and more. Help raise awareness for men’s health and compete for cash, prizes, and the Douglas Cup. Sunday, Aug. 28, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. BILLY HARWICK LANES Focus Awards
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An all-day event featuring filmmaking workshops and screenings of short films made by students! All screenings and workshops are completely free to students. Saturday, Aug. 27, 9:30 a.m.-8:15 p.m. THE HALLORAN CENTRE Grind City Fest A mix of performances by national, regional, and local blues and bluegrass artists. Friday, Aug. 26, 4 p.m. GRIND CITY BREWING COMPANY Ruby Bridges Reading Festival
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The Musical History of Royal Studios narrated by Boo Mitchell Boo Mitchell and Hi Rhythm will take you on a musically guided journey of the more than 60-year history of Willie Mitchell and his iconic Royal Studios. Friday, Aug. 26, 7:30 p.m.
MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN Whet Thursday: Dog Days of Summer For this final Whet Thursday of the season, the museum invites visitors to bring their leashed pups. Free. Thursday, Aug. 25, 6 p.m.
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ome losses sting more than others. Dropping points at home, against rivals Birmingham Legion FC, is something no fan wants to experience. And this match truly was a battle, a back-and-forth slugfest between these regional competitors who went blow for blow throughout the 90 minutes. Unfortunately, it just wasn’t the team’s day, and Memphis fell 4-2 at home against Birmingham.isclashis always one that fans put on their calendar, the build-up to each contest seeing some light, and some not so light, ribbing between the fan bases online. For those regularly outside soccer circles, there’s a saying that “form goes out the window” during a “derby” (a match between local rivals), so previous results and logic need not apply when trying to predict the outcome. It’s hard to bet against Memphis this season, but lest we forget, Birmingham are also a top team in the Eastern Conference. Before the match, the commentators speculated that this game could be a shoot-out, and that’s exactly what
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Luiz Fernando to take a sweet rst touch into space and slot home his le -footed shot to put Memphis up 1-0 in the 18th minute. Unfortunately, some uncertainty began to creep into Memphis’ game. We started seeing uncharacteristic mistakes on the defensive side, with players perhaps a little tired a er the midweek trip to Albuquerque. Birmingham tied up the game a er Anderson Asiedu drew a sloppy foul in Memphis’ box, with former USMNT forward Juan Agudelo equalizing from the spot in the 28th minute. Just a couple minutes later, Patrick Seagrist had to intervene with a headed clearance o the line to prevent Memphis going behind. But 901 FC did eventually fall behind from a corner kick just before hal ime, and shortly into the second half, Birmingham extended their lead to 3-1 when Marlon Santos pounced on Rece Buckmaster’s mistake at the back and shot past Trey Muse. Memphis did pull a goal back in the 61st minute, when Goodrum’s shot ricocheted o Jeremy Kelly and into the back of the net. But while pushing forward for an equalizer, Memphis conceded again, Birmingham restoring their two-goal cushion and seeing out the game for a 4-2 win. It’s a disappointing loss for sure, but no cause for panic. On the balance of play, Saturday’s match was pretty even. 901 FC held 59 percent possession, taking 15 shots (10 in the box) to Birmingham’s 17 (11 in the box), and forcing the Legion into almost three times as many defensive clearances. e key di erences came in just a few instances when Memphis’ concentration levels dropped, with a small number of mistakes being punished by the Legion attack. It’s not the kind of thing we see from 901 FC every week, and it’s something that coach Ben Pirmann will be quick to stamp out. Despite the loss, Memphis emerged from the weekend holding down second place in the Eastern Conference standings on 51 points. And that top spot is still within touching distance, with frontrunners Louisville City FC sitting on 55 points, albeit having played one less game.eplayo s surely beckon, and as it stands, Memphis can go toe to toe with any opponent they match up against. Next up are Loudoun United FC at AutoZone Park on Wednesday, August 31st. Loudoun currently sit 10th in the Eastern Conference standings and present a good opportunity for Memphis to get back to winning ways.
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amir Restrepo, owner of El Sabor Latino, is opening a second restaurant, El Pollo Latino, in September.
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Restrepo and his wife, Yuri Guzman, and her parents Carlos Ruiz and Esneth Azevedo decided to open a Colombian restaurant in Memphis, with Guzman and Azevedo, who owned El Punto del Sabor restaurant in Colombia, as chefs. “When you go to Miami, you see 100 di erent Latin food restaurants. I wanted to try something here.
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Among the fare customers came to know was the Colombian hamburger, Restrepo says. “We put a lot of secret ingredients on the meat, and we put a pineapple with it, which makes it di erent.” e burger comes with bacon, cheese, lettuce, and cooked onions. “We also put potato chips on the burgers,” he says. ere’s also a Colombian hot dog on the menu, with pineapple, bacon, mayonnaise, mustard, and potato chips on top. e bun is di erent from the bun most people are familiar with, Restrepo says. “We bring the recipe for the bread from Colombia. It’s kind of so . It’s not sweet.” ey also sell Colombian breakfasts, including the “desayuno campesino,” or “farmer’s breakfast,” which features scrambled eggs with onions and tomatoes, beef sausage, rice, and “dedos de queso,” or “cheese bread.” El Pollo Latino is only ve minutes away from El Sabor Latino, so Restrepo will be able to quickly travel between theAstwo.for opening a third restaurant some day, Restrepo says, “It’s in God’s hands. It’s on him. He gives us all the help. If he wants us to do another one, we’ll do it.”
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“El Pollo Latino” means “ e Latin Chicken,” says Restrepo. e restaurant, which will be at 3698 Summer Avenue, will feature oven-roasted chicken cooked on a rotisserie. “ ere are so many ingredients in there,” Restrepo says. “You’ve got to taste it. It’s not a spicy chicken, and it’s not going to be sweet. It will be something di erent.” Restrepo got the recipe from his wife’s uncle, Eugenio Sanchez, who lives in Colombia and co-owns a chain of 30 El Fogon del Pollo restaurants that sell this type of chicken.
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On October 12, 2015, they opened El Sabor Latino or “ e Latin Flavor” at 665 Avon Road. Business was slow at rst. People who go to Mexican restaurants are already familiar with the food. “You know what a taco is, what a fajita is,” he says. But Colombian cuisine is “something di erent. People were just tasting and learning about the food. e rst three years it was hard until people knew the food.”
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“I always wanted to bring something di erent to the city. I’ve been here for so many years. My two kids are from here,” he says.Restrepo, who is from Cali, Colombia, lived in Miami for three years before moving to Memphis in 2003. “I see a lot of opportunity in Memphis. e quality of life. It’s cheaper than to live in Miami. And I know that Memphis is going to grow. At that time it was a small city. It was small to me because I moved from Miami.”
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“We see that people like it. at’s why we were like, ‘Okay, let’s go on and try to open a restaurant and see how it goes.’”
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“We started at a fair on Winchester. We opened a tent just to try and see if people liked our food.” ey ran the restaurant for two years at the fair, selling empanadas, plantains with cheese, and Colombian hamburgers.eyalso sold a “bandeja paisa,” or “great plate,” which Restrepo describes as a “typical Colombian platter with pork belly, chorizo pork sausage, steak, rice, sweet plantains, avocado, red beans, and arepa, which is like a cornbread.
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Paddy Considine stars as King Viserys I Targaryen in HBO’s House of the Dragon.
Prince Daemon, having shown his brutal character as the castra tion-happy commander of the city watch, is still scheduled to take over the throne. Thanks to the machinations of the King’s Hand, Ser Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans), Viserys decides to buck tradition and name his embittered daughter Rhaenyra as his heir. What could possibly go wrong?
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The House of the Dragon pilot is care fully engineered by new showrunner Ryan Condal and author George R. R. Martin to be both just familiar enough not to turn off the fans while promising new adven tures, this time with a whole bunch of dragons. Rhaenyra is basically Arya Stark with Daenerys’ hairdo. Considine gives the most compelling performance as the wellmeaning king, traumatized by the sudden loss of his wife. Smith continues his postDoctor run of ace villains. The joy of Game of Thrones has always been the sprawling cast of supporting characters, and we’re introduced to plenty with potential. But still, Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire began as a response to the bloodless, unsexy high fantasy of The Lord of the Rings House of the Dragon’s got plenty of on-screen blood and sex, but the tone so far has a distinct Tolkienian stiffness. Here’s hoping Condal and his cast grow into the chain mail boots they need to fill. House of the Dragon is streaming on HBO Max.
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Many pundits point to Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman defeating Rep. Liz Cheney as more proof that Trump is in control of the Republican Party. Ten Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump for inciting the January 6th Capitol insurrection; four retired rather than face reelection, four lost to Trump-backed opponents, and two advanced to the general election. is requires a critical analysis. Let’s look at a few elements. Results from a 2019 CivicScience survey help to articulate the complicated mess that uncritical analysis creates. e survey revealed troubling information about how bias and prejudice problematize political decision-making. For example, 56 percent of respondents said that schools in America shouldn’t teach Arabic numerals (which, as every schoolchild should know, are the numerals we all use every day and throughout American education, i.e., 1, 2, 3, 4 … ). While they do not claim that this indicates a stunning level of both ignorance and commitment to purblind prejudice, that should be quite We’veobvious.allseen the uproar over critical race theory, which at its core is simply a commitment to teach pupils the truth about American history. e truth is what students need. ey can decide for themselves what they believe to be good, great, bad, or evil. But Fox News and Republicans call for a ban on such teaching. Some of this obdurate, willing ignorance is rooted in a kind of tribalism. is can be an uncritical acceptance of dogmatic positioning and dishonesty in the name of loyalty to group, but has no authentic place in a democracy. If I go along with my tribe (e.g., progressives, conservatives) uncritically, I am both lazy and cowardly. I’m lazy when I don’t fact-check my “leaders.” I’m cowardly when I do fact-check them, nd their errors, and fail to alter my position accordingly. A lazy and cowardly democracy is no democracy at all.
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—conspiracyofservewhenrepeatsfalsehoodsintroducesHeandliesofothersitseemstohim.eacceptanceQAnontheorydemonstrably false by any due-diligence, reasonable standard — into the Republican party has created a GQP that values allegiance to party over country. Facts and truth have taken a sideline; hence, we see a deeper movement toward authoritarianism. Trump’s Tuesday victories undermine the pillars of democracy. He undermines choosing and replacing elected o cials in free and fair elections. His supporters discourage active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life. e GQP attacks human rights and equality under theItlaw.isan extremely important time for people to think, act, and vote. e people have the power and can reclaim guarantees for free and fair elections and a rmations for equality and human rights. Everyone needs to commit and prepare to safeguard democratic institutions and values before they’re gone. Wim Laven, Ph.D., syndicated by PeaceVoice, teaches courses in political science and con ict resolution.
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Tuesday primary elections are a routine occasion of frustration for many Americans. August 16, 2022, continued this trend. Central questions included ideas about the amount of power still wielded by Donald Trump, whether the accomplishments of the Biden administration have been promoted enough, and whether election results can be trusted.
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