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back in Memphis, as the heat of the national news spotlight cooled, we learned more about the crimes that galvanized us in early September. e Daily Memphian reported Monday that more than a year ago, a young black woman named Alicia Franklin reported a rape by the same man who is alleged to have murdered Fletcher. Her rape kit sat in limbo at a lab in Jackson, Tennessee, for months, and even a er repeated calls from Franklin, police apparently felt no urgency to pursue the evidence. It was only when the Fletcher case arose that analyzing the earlier rape kit was expedited. Blame is being cast in several directions, including toward the undeniable fact that the state’s three forensics labs are woefully understa ed and under-budgeted. But the bottom line is, if police had pursued the evidence of the earlier rape with the same urgency they did with the Fletcher case, Fletcher might still be alive.
All this, I suppose, is something of a prelude to this week’s cover story, “370 Great ings About Memphis.” e city has had some tough going lately and it’s easy during times like these to lose sight of the fact that good things — big and small — are happening every day in Memphis; that good people and caring organizations are doing great things to move us forward, to bring us joy and a sense of pride. We stopped counting at “370 great things” only because of space limitations. We could have listed hundreds more. At any rate, sometimes, it’s good to take a few minutes to count your blessings. It couldn’t hurt.
Predictably, such spectacular crimes made the national news for several nights, helped in no small part by the fact that there were videos and photos available to more easily whet the interest of a national audience. Even British papers were reporting from Memphis.
But still, Memphis was in the news, and not in a good way. On social media, the “I’m so glad I got out of that hell-hole” crowd was having a eld day, which always makes me wonder: If life is so great in Keokuk, how come you’re still wasting your day bitching about Memphis on Facebook? But I digress. en the 96-year-old Queen of England did Memphis a solid by dropping dead in Scotland. (Surprisingly, despite the presence of Scotland Yard — which should be nearby, if it isn’t — there are still no suspects.) At any rate, thanks to the long and winding royal drama, Memphis was immediately o the national news radar, for which we were all grateful. As I write this, a er 27 days or so of shuttling Queen Elizabeth’s cofn around the country, the Brits are about to have a funeral, it appears. By all accounts — including the Beatles’ — Her Majesty was a pretty nice girl. Godspeed. Now it’s up to King Chuck and Queen Camilla to begin performing the arduous duties of being gratuitously rich, entitled, and powerful for absolutely no reason.Meanwhile,
And everybody had an opinion. Fox misinformation maestro Tucker Carlson weirdly laid the blame on “Liberals like Governor Bill Lee,” which gives you an idea of how accurate Tuck-em’s typical takes are. is is a pundit, a er all, who just a couple days earlier claimed that “by any actual reality-based measure, Vladimir Putin is not losing the war in Ukraine.”
Memphis experienced some di cult days in early September. It began with the news of the shocking early morning murder of Eliza Fletcher, who was jogging near the University of Memphis. And then, just as we were trying to wrap our heads around that heinous crime, the city was terrorized for hours by a raging gunman who drove around hijacking cars and shooting random people, killing three and wounding four. What the hell was going on?
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e Commercial Appeal reported on Sunday that the average time for a rape kit to be processed in Tennessee is 34 weeks. is is absurd and unacceptable. e state legislature needs to address this situation, and quickly. Rape kits should be processed within weeks, not months. And there should be no di erence in urgency between a case of “just an average Black girl,” as Franklin described herself in the Daily Memphian, and a wealthy white woman.
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e blu includes an ADA-compliant switchback ramp as well as a staircase, two “stone scrambles” for climbing, and new trees and Garrettgrasses.Uithoven of Montgomery Martin Contractors said that the colorings of the stone are designed to go from cool blues and grays at the bottom and transition to cream beige and a red-orange at the top to re ect the natural recurring colors in the blu along the Mississippi River. He also said that there are accent lights with uplights that shine on some of the trees, with others shining on the stone faces.
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Carlisle said the river plays an important role in the future of Downtown, transitioning from a center for agricultural products and commerce to a “21st-century vision of it being about tourism, development, and a high quality of life.”
Chance Carlisle, CEO of Carlisle LLC, said, “Two things really hit home for us … e ability to provide the rst of its kind, ADA-accessibility to the park … [And] for the last 40 or 50 years, with the exception of maybe a month or so in May, Tom Lee Park was sort of an a erthought, rather than a signature riverfront. It’s hard to be a great riverfront city without an excellent front door, and what Memphis River Parks has done, and all of the donors, is really give Memphians a park that we can be proud of, for all of Memphis.”
easier to get from upstairs on Main Street down to the river in a more equitable way, and we couldn’t be more excited about this achievement, but also making this available for our community.”
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“Imagine the catalytic e ect on Downtown, when Tom Lee Park is complete,” said Penelope Huston of the Downtown Memphis Commission. “To unlock the true power of Downtown, all the individual assets have to be connected, like they are here at the Cutbank Blu .”
The project “represents the partnership’s commitment to easy, equitable access to the new park.”
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He said, “ is is what it means to be in Memphis, and to have that be associated with us is wonderful. It’s always been — and Downtown has always been — a neighborhood for everybody. e investments made at the Mobility Center, the investments made at Tom Lee Park, just continue to add to that momentum.”
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Biden’s partial student loan debt cancellation plan could help more people access the real estate market.
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he option to buy a home, along with options on other major life decisions, could soon be a reality for Gen Zers and millennials thanks to some student debt relief.
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“With an overly competitive real estate market with millennials and Gen Zers not able to get in because it’s too competitive to get a home loan, many people gave up,” Scha lein said. “Even millennials with a higher income represent a huge increase in the amount of rent
President Joe Biden recently announced that he is forgiving up to $20,000 of federal student loan debt.
Spears said that she and her ancé are now able to plan for the future and realistically save and plan for their goals.Red n reports that the median selling price for a home in Memphis is $188,000. e U.S. Census stated that as of last July, the median household income is According$41,864.tothe White House, 43 million borrowers will bene t from student loan relief. e White House also estimates that at least 20 million people will have their total debt canceled.Information compiled by the Education Data Initiative reports that more than 862,000 people in Tennessee have student loan debt, and that the average borrower has about $36,418 in debt. State residents have a total of $31.4 billion in student loan debt. e site also states that 51.8 percent of borrowers are under the age of 35.
biology. When the Biden administration made the announcement, Spears, like many others, shared her excitement on social media and how this will positively impact her future moving forward.“Iwant to buy a house one day, and student loans are looked at in debtto-income ratio when applying for mortgages,” Spears said. “Even if only half of my debt is canceled, that signicantly lowers my debt-to-income ratio, which could be a determining factor in if I get a house or not. With rising housing costs, my ancé and I want to buy a house in the next few years, and debt cancellation has made that dream a possible reality for us.”
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Many people who fall in this age category are opting to stay out of the housing market, due to its highly competitive nature, according to Amy Scha lein, executive director of United Housing Inc.
As a result of this announcement, the Biden administration extended the student loan repayment pause through December 2022, with repayments expected to resume in January 2023.
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• Big target. For a player who arrived at the University of Memphis as a walk-on quarterback, Caden Prieskorn has become one hell of a tight end. Prieskorn caught a pair of touchdown passes in the rst half against Arkansas State, each time tying the score. But neither of those was his biggest catch of the game. at came on a fourthand- ve play late in the fourth quarter, the Tigers trailing (32-31) at the time. Despite not being quarterback Seth Henigan’s rst pre-snap option, Prieskorn found a gap between an ASU linebacker and safety, and Henigan found Prieskorn for 17 yards to keep alive what proved to be the game-winning drive. e Tigers are deep at wide receiver this season, so Prieskorn
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makes the passing attack that much more dangerous.“Mybody has changed the last three or four years,” said Prieskorn a er the win. “I’ve gained 40 pounds. It’s been a long journey. Redshirting. Not getting a lot of playing time, behind a really good player in Sean Dykes. But he taught me a lot.” Prieskorn also threw a key block to help Henigan himself score on an 8-yard bootleg shortly before hal ime. Basketball helped develop Prieskorn’s hands (for catching) in high school. But blocking is a newly learned talent, and one this rising Tiger star should display on a weekly basis.
Walk. We talk about ways to celebrate the city [for 901 Week]. I can’t say enough great things about how wonderful that crowd was. ey get credit for the win. I’m proud of our guys’ perseverance. It wasn’t always pretty.”
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• What a rush. e Tigers ran the ball 45 times against the Red Wolves for 187 yards. In the pass- rst world of modern football, this may as well have been the 1990s, with Chuck Stobart or Rip Scherer on the Memphis sideline. Jevyon Ducker led the Tigers with 75 yards, more than half of them coming on a game-winning 39-yard touchdown scamper in the fourth quarter. Brandon omas — the Tigers’ lead dog on the ground — gained 46 yards and also scored a touchdown. Freshman Sutton Smith entered the game in the second half and averaged seven yards on threeBestcarries.ofall, particularly in Silver eld’s eyes, the Tigers didn’t turn the ball over. e running game su ered “fumbleitis” in dramatic fashion last season, costing Memphis at least one win, maybe two. If Saturday’s performance can be replicated, the Tiger o ense will be a twopronged handful for opposing defensive coordinators. Silver eld has a mantra for his team: Own the football. No better way to own it than by chewing up yardage and time with the ground game.
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FINANCE By Gene Gard
To answer the question directly, people retire by living below their means, investing the extra money in diversi ed portfolios, and staying invested in a prudent diversi ed allocation throughoutRetirementretirement.canbean overwhelming subject, so the peace of mind from a well-tested nancial plan can be just as important as the details of the plan itself. Rules of thumb are useful but don’t tell the whole story, so at Telarray, we are always excited to use our proprietary Observatory process to help show you what that process might look like for you. You might nd that with good practices you won’t need to work nearly as long as you think!
It’s true that if you had to save every dollar you need for retirement before you retire, you would need to work for a very long time. We are very fortunate that today we enjoy the power of capital markets which allows us to buy stocks and bonds to earn meaningful, real returns a er in ation. For the last 50 years, U.S. large cap stocks have returned about 10 percent per year, which was a tremendous tailwind to the balance of investment accounts. By staying invested during your working years, your portfolio can grow much more quickly than money in a savings account. In fact, by mid to late career, it’s common to see market gains in a typical year far exceed the magnitude of contributions into retirement accounts.
comes from a time when retirees could buy intermediate term bonds and enjoy 5 percent-plus yields, which is not the case today. Today’s lower yields, rise of stock buybacks, and relatively low capital gains tax rate mean that dividends might actually not be the most desirable way to enjoy retirement returns. Retirees should de nitely not be concerned about selling a small portion of the investment portfolio to fund annual expenses.
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When I look at the amountapproximateofmoney I think I need to retire, I calculate that I’ll need to save half my take-home income for 60 years so that I can plan for 30 years with the same spending a er I stop working. How does anyone manage to save enough to retire?
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But how much money do you actually need? Every situation is di erent, but a general rule of thumb is that you only need to save about 25 times your annual spending in order to retire. A famous paper, known as the Trinity study, suggests that in the rst year of retirement a retiree can spend 4 percent of the value of their investment portfolio, then continue spending that same amount inde nitely, adjusted each year for in ation. Markets will go up and down, and spending in retirement will likely rise and fall at di erent times, but the paper suggests (and our Observatory process con rms) that using this approach means a retiree would have been very unlikely to run out of money during most historical periods with good available data that we can test.
When it comes to retirement, a well-tested nancial plan is a must.
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, nopressure 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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A: e most obvious good news here is that you don’t have to replace your income. In this highly simpli ed case, if you are working for a lifetime with a 50 percent savings rate, you only have to replace half your income because you were living on half your salary the whole time! is example is extreme, but even when a typical worker considers things like their 401k contributions, taxes paid, and money spent on commuting and business attire, they realize there’s no need to replace 100 percent of nominal salary in retirement to have the exact same lifestyle as today.
Note that we didn’t say stocks have yielded 10 percent a year. ere’s a strong instinct among investors and particularly retirees to “live on the interest” by spending bond interest and dividend income but never touching the principal in their investments. at probably
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“ at’s What’s Up” by Yo Gotti ursday Nights at e Blu
Bryant’s Breakfast
Saying that Memphis isn’t a part of
Female rappers (GloRilla, Slimeroni, K MemphisCarbon)Vegan Festival
Riding around Downtown on scooters Pasta from Brain Food
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Open mic night at Java Cabana
Walkin’FreeWorldwith your feet 10 feet o of Beale Viet Hoa Market
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Mollie Woodru ’s ghost at the Woodru -Fontaine House e trash-eating squirrels at Rhodes
Searching for treasures at Antique Warehouse Mall on Summer
replica atop Caesar’s Wine and Liquors
Beale Street Artcrawl
All the Memphis-Shelby County Schools teachers who go above and ebeyondanimatronic dinosaur at the Museum of Science & History e work tables at Crosstown that overlook the Central Atrium eatre
Concerts at Mud Island
Starry Nights at Shelby Farms e blue men on the Vollintine & Evergreen BeautifulGreenlinecocktailsat Global Cafe
Bain Barbecue & Bakery’s beef brisket — run tell THAT, Texas!
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Cocktails at Inkwell Grizzlies watch parties Project Pat Skating at Tobey Park Frosé at Railgarten Exhibits at TONE Sir Meatball and Milkshake’s star quality Las Delicias’ chips
TONE’sTrolleyTennesseeNightJuneteenth celebration
Energy in the FedEx Forum
Opera Memphis’ 30 Days of Opera
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Jameson Slushie at Slider Inn Drag shows at Dru’s Place 901 SouthRossGamesJohnsonMemphis
Cazateatro Bilingual eatre Group Hattiloo eatre
Novel’s handwritten book recommen-
Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Movies at Overton Park Shell National Civil Rights Museum Juice from Raw Girls Swish’s pink Memphis Tiger shorts
Huey’s cheese sticks
Rev. Bailey’s every- ursday beef tenderloin at Woman’s Exchange of DixieMemphisQueen’s wings and pineapple
Live music and brunch at Sage Drag shows at Atomic Rose
Central BBQ’s barbecue nachos Events at e Ravine Live music at Hi Tone Shows at the All-you-can-playOrpheumgames at Nerd Alert Candy from Dinstuhl’s Grit and grind Jook
Foster eld trips with MAS dogs
Alliance arcade Joe JimmyMemphisRobertBealeTomJocelynMulherinWurzburgeLittleTeaShopJonesStreetFlippersChurchParkItalianFestivalCrosthwaiteeLucyOpryestatuesandriverbridge
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Hebe Fountain in Court Square e Peabody lobby e neon sign at Joe’s Wines & Liquors Chicken and dressing and all the sides at e Cupboard Barbecue on Texas toast at e Bar-B-Q FriedShopor baked chicken at Alcenia’s Deviled eggs at Felicia Suzanne’s Spending an a ernoon at the Center for Southern Folklore Ginger bread boys and petit fours at Kay BreakfastBakeryatthe Arcade
Muddy’s cupcakes ose weird red chairs at the Brooks
Memphis Public Libraries
Mylo the Bernese Mountain Dog at T Cli on Gallery & Framing
Double features at the Malco Summer
Wedding Cake Supreme at Jerry’s Sno CrepeConesmyrtles in summer
31-centslush wings at Crumpy’s
A hibachi dinner prepared at your table by Harold Do at Nagasaki Inn Chicken salad and spicy tomato soup at La Baguette French Bread and Pastry Shop
HerbTommyDrive-InKhashopping at Ebbo
Free admission on Wednesdays at the PenguinBrooksfeeding at the zoo
PHOTOS: SHARA CLARK I Am a Man mural, Beale Street Flippers
Garibaldi’s barbecue pizza
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HalloranLinnStreetSitlerCentreesequinedmural at Overton Square
the summer
Dorothy Ann Whitaker’s gravestone at Elmwood Cemetery
BBQ Tofu Nachos at R.P. Tracks
Walking the University of Memphis campus arboretum
Amy LaVere
Baby season for ducks and geese at Cancer Survivors Park
Pulse, the Pink Floyd tribute band Mixing your own scented oils at Maggie’s Pharm
Booing the Golden State Warriors
The 10-story Christmas tree of lights in Crosstown Concourse
Food Truck Thursdays at Court Square Agricenter Sunflower Trail
First Congo’s progressive outreach
Memphis magazine’s Vance Lauderdale
Grind City Coffee Xpo 901 GameComicsNight at Board to Beers
Memphis Flyer
Memphis Concréte Experimental Electronic Music Festival
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Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken
Out of the Woods Wildlife Rescue & Rehab’s Facebook page — Hi, D’White! Unapologetically Memphis on Instagram
The incredible run of short films funded by Indie Memphis’ IndieGrants program
All the porches and their echoing Cooper-YoungconversationsGarden Walk
Peabody Rooftop parties
Justin Timberlake
Watching the FedEx planes lined up in the sky like a highway to infinity Intimate music shows at DKDC Shelby County Star Trek Day 100 trillion gallons of the cleanest water on planet Earth
Orange Mound Tower plans
Stoned Ninja edibles
The crack on the Hernando DeSoto Bridge is fixed.
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Veda Reed and her cloud paintings India Palace lunch buffet
Kacky Walton’s voice on WKNO
Late nights at Alex’s Tavern
All the nooks and crannies at Crosstown Art Bar
The Beale Street Brass Notes Walk of LemongrassFame tofu at Pho Binh Brunch at Bayou Bar & Grill Makeda’s ButterifficCookiesBakery & Cafe Restore Corps Room in the Inn
The Oblivians’ Play Nine Songs with Mr. Quintron Cooper-Young Porchfest
It’s not Nashville.
Biking on the Greenline
The musical legacy on display at the Connie Abston Archive & History Exhibits at the Overton Park Shell
Murals around town
Astronomica RPG podcast
CosmicRaifordbowling at Billy Hardwick’s All-Star Lanes
Cooper-Young’s California incense cedar, deemed a champion tree by the Tennessee Urban Forestry Council
Inna-net fuckery on r/memphis St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital/ BrianMo’sALSACBowsKelsey’s indictment
SpeedyCxffeeblacksecurity lines at MEM Memphis Japan Festival
Memphis Listening Lab
Joyce Cobb brunch at Boscos Withers Collection Museum & Gallery
The big MEMPHIS sign
Grammy Award-winner Cedric Burnside Pulitzer Prize-winner Katori Hall Academy Award-winners Three 6 Mafia
Old Forest at Overton Park
Watching The Firm
The Memphis Archaeological and Geological Society’s annual Earth Wide Open gem show
The historic Hotel Pontotoc Downtown (currently being renovated for public Antariouse!)
“Get dope out your vein and hope in your brain. You’ll never get nowhere smoking the pipe.”
The Ginger’s Bread Company challah CraigtartsBrewer’s Secret Screenings at Crosstown Theater
All the bomb food trucks
Prince Smoke-filled,Mongolight-up dance floor at Paula & Raiford’s Disco Paula
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My Cup of Tea
The Poor & Hungry
The way your hair smells after you leave ThatShapow!frantic visit to Mr. Lincoln’s Costume Shop the week before Halloween Oak Alley at Rhodes College
The Barred Owls of Evergreen, who hoot and chortle at night
Your favorite barbecue joint World Championship Hot Wing Contest & Festival
The 4K laser projector and Dolby Atmos sound system at the Malco Powerhouse MXT theater
The “secret” beach
Armored Fight Club
Davis AKA Back it Up Terry! China Master in the Oak Court Mall
VintageRock-and-rollfilmsat the Time Warp Drive-In Isaac Hayes’ Cadillac at the Stax Museum
Louise Page’s wardrobe Memphis Heritage’s Don Newman photo collection
The rebirth of Broad Avenue
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Josh McLane is a native Memphian who's been in bands and the comedy scene for years. He's cooked in some of Memphis’ most famous spots like The P&H, Fino’s and The HiTone, where he learned "The Sandwich Arts." His unique sandwich menu may be a little di erent, but he guarantees they’ll always hit the spot. “Half of these were created for my vegetarian wife, and the rest just to make me happy. And guess what — they work.”
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In fact, in light of recent news about the thousands of untested rape kits across the state, Clubb, who worked with the Sexual Assault Kit Task Force to advocate for testing more than 12,000 stored rape kits in Memphis back in 2013, will be a voice along with Memphis Says No More and the Women’s Council to ask for emergency state funding to remedy the backlog of assault kits and to hopefully secure the resources to prevent such a backlog from occurring again.
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes
By Abigail Morici
Each year, the one-mile walk invites men and boys to don women’s shoes and join as allies in a demonstration against rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, stalking, and any other form of gendered violence. is year, that message is especially important, coming so soon a er the kidnapping and murder of Eliza Fletcher.
He’s the “High Hoodoo of Memphis,” using a fusion of Delta-based oral traditions, such as blues work, storytelling, spoken word, and Black Baptist oratory with musical accompaniment.
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Memphis Proud Drag Show & Dance Party
And like with this walk, awareness, more frequently than not, leads to action, which in turn leads to change. Hope is not lost as long as, Clubb says, “we keep women’s voices raised around safety, justice, and equity.”
Overton Square, September 24, noon-6 p.m., free
“ is is when men and boys can come and say, ‘I will join you in this determination to stop this completely unnecessary gendered violence.’”
e show also marks the closing of “Rise Up: Stonewall & e LGBTQ Rights Movement” and “Memphis Proud: e Resilience of a Southern LGBTQ+ Community.”
PHOTO: COURTESY MEMPHIS AREA WOMEN’S COUNCIL
Pass Over
With shades of Waiting for Godot, Pass Over is politically charged and beautifully provocative.
e walk will begin and end at the Ramesses II statue on Central at the University of Memphis, and walkers can choose signs to carry and borrow from the council’s supply of women’s shoes or bring their own. Registration begins at 5 p.m., and the rst 200 registrants will get a Walk a Mile visor.
VARIOUS DAYS & TIMES September 22nd - 28th
Join the Stax Museum for a music and spoken-word performance with author Arthur Flowers and others.
e registration fee of $15 or $10 for students (free for U of M students) will go toward producing the walk and other campaigns the Women’s Council sponsors, including Memphis Says No More, a collaborative e ort led by the Memphis Sexual Assault Kit Task Force to bring awareness of and o er resources for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
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Men can borrow women’s shoes or wear their own.
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Emotional and lyrical, audiences are taken on a journey of Moses and Kitch, two men on an innercity corner, hoping that this day might be di erent from the others. As a stranger wanders into their space with his own agenda, their plans may be forced to change.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at Latin Fest with a day of live Latin music, some Latin food and drinks, cra s for kids, vendors, and fun for everyone in an open social space.
When the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes was scheduled months ago, Deborah Clubb, Memphis Area Women’s Council executive director, could never have predicted how needed the group’s 11th annual walk would be.
Clubb says, “It took me a couple of days to come to grips with the realization that we were back again at this place of needing special e ort to catch up with rape kits which are materials from someone’s body, someone who has been completely, horribly treated, traumatized, and possibly hurt forever. It’s deeply disappointing, but I’m glad we got awareness.”
WALK A MILE IN HER SHOES, UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 5:30 P.M., $10-$15.
Rickydoc’s Traveling Medicine Show
Circuit Playhouse, performances through October 19, $20-$30
“It’s such a good opportunity for men and boys to show they care about what has happened,” Clubb says. “Some of us walked or ran the other Friday to nish Liza’s run. at was primarily about getting women out because women running for their health or athletic interests felt targeted or endangered or both.
Latin Fest
Flowers is a practitioner of literary hoodoo, Syracuse University professor emeritus, leader of various nonpro ts, and a performance artist in the Griotic school of African-American literature.
Flowers will be joined by several of Memphis’ nest Black musicians, writers, and performers, including Ekpe Abioto, Danian Jerry, Cequita Monique, Anna B. Scott, and Sheree Renée omas.
Museum of Science & History, Friday, September 23, 6-11 p.m., $20 MoSH presents a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community and the grand culmination of its Summer of Pride programming: MoSH’s rst-ever drag show.ishistoric show for all ages will star a diverse cast of performers featuring di erent styles, expressions, and identities, showcasing some of the in nite ways in which the art of drag can be manifested. A er the show, the intergenerational dance party will kick o , and everyone is invited to come together and dance the night away.
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Stax Museum of American Soul Music, ursday, September 22, 7-8:30 p.m., free
e audience is welcome to ask any questions. en we’ll wrap it up with a song. I think it’s going to make for a really fun night.”
Festival (running from September 30th through October 2nd), Leavell lets it be known that he won’t be leaving Memphis right away a er his GPAC appearance. “I’ll be hanging out the next couple of days because Mempho is going on,” he says. “And I’ll be making some surprise appearances on Friday and Saturday with some bands. I’ll be looking forward to that as well.”
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PHOTO: COURTESY CHUCK LEAVELL
Chuck Leavell
The Tree Man By Alex Greene
Lest readers think he will be speaking more than playing, note that Leavell will have a piano nearby for the proceedings. “For instance,” he says, “when we talk about Eric Clapton, I’ll do a song from when I worked with him. When we talk about the Stones, I’ll do a song or two I did with them. I’ll even play some Allman Brothers and Sea Level. I’ll play at least one song for every period of my life represented, and tell some stories along the way.”
lailing musicians take heart at this tale: Chuck Leavell, a keyboardist of no small accomplishment, hit a rough patch at the turn of the 1980s. As he neared the age of 30, the best option in his life seemed to be … farming? Granted, he loved the tree farm near Macon, Georgia, that he’d settled on. But, as his wife Rose Lane notes in e Tree Man, a documentary on Leavell’s life, “Chuck comes in; he’s kind of downtrodden a little bit because his life isn’t going the way he wanted it to. He said, ‘I’m just gonna not do my piano. I’m just gonna have a farm; We’re gonna live out here on the farm, everything’s gonna be great.’ And I’m going, ‘No, it’s not going to be like that.’” Rose Lane knew something Leavell didn’t: She’d received a phone call earlier, arranging to have Leavell audition for the Rolling Stones.
Reached by phone at his tree farm, Leavell describes the unique experience in store that night. “I have a recent documentary out called e Tree Man, and we’re going to show about a 30-minute version of it, to get people warmed up to who I am, what I do, and see some of the comments that some of my fellow artists have been kind enough to make about me,” Leavell says. “A er that, I’ll come onstage with a moderator, Matt Ross-Spang, and Matt will cue me with some questions. We’ll discuss some speci c parts of the career and the fact that I’ve worked with the Stones for 40 years and had the pleasure of working with Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and other artists. So, we’ll tell some stories along the way, and that segment will probably be an hour.
Chuck Leavell to bring music and tales from a rock-and-roll life to GPAC, Mempho.
And yet, as the Stones’ Ronnie Wood himself admits on camera, “He’s indispensable — an indispensable part of ourNevertheless,setup.” the Rolling Stones are but one chapter in the storied life’s journey that Leavell has pursued. Most listeners know his work, if not his name, via recordings by the Allman Brothers Band at their peak, namely the piano-laden instrumental, “Jessica.” But there has been so much more. at’s the point of a special event at the Germantown Performing Arts Center (GPAC) on ursday, September 29th: to explore every angle of a very multifaceted life.
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Now Leavell has been with the band 40 years, and his penchant for organization has paid o . “I began taking copious amounts of notes,” he says in the lm of his early days with the Stones. “Eventually they gave me the moniker of musical director. I kinda sco at that because Mick and Keith are the musical directors.”
While Leavell rst cut his teeth in the Muscle Shoals area as a teenager, he says Memphis has always had a special place in his heart. “I just love being in Memphis,” he says. “ e history speaks for itself. e music is all over the place. During the inaugural Mempho Festival ve years ago, we did a presentation called Stone’s row, which is some of the side men from the Rolling Stones — Bernard Fowler, Lisa Fischer, myself, and Tim Ries on sax. We did an all-Stones set at the rst Mempho. I’ve had a lot of great experiences in SpeakingMemphis.”oftheMempho Music
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MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART
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STAX MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC
ing, great for families! Saturday, Sept. 24, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
release of Grave Intervention Saturday, Sept. 24, 6 p.m. NOVEL
St. Jude Memphis Walk/ Run
Politically charged and beauti fully provocative. Through Oct. 9.
NOVEL
Harris shares the release of her first book, Wayment God! Moth erhood Ain’t For Me. Saturday, Sept. 24, 3:30 p.m.
Asoyuf’s exhibition “Royal Portrait” brings attention to the importance of the Indigenous matriarchs. Sunday, Sept. 25, 3-4:30 p.m.
Play vintage arcade games, pinball machines, and oldschool video games, plus hear live music and enjoy great craft beer and food. Saturday, Sept. 24, 1 p.m.
Memphis Comic Expo
Featuring food trucks, ven dors, and live entertainment. Sunday, Sept. 25, noon-6 p.m.
CANNON CENTER FOR THE PER FORMING ARTS
Bring your gently used clothing and accessories to swap them out for new-to-you pieces. Sunday, Sept. 25, 1-4 p.m.
RALEIGH LIBRARY
AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL Mid-South Fair
SHELBY FARMS PARK
CANCER SURVIVORS PARK
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY
Featuring live entertainment, special guest appearances by local celebrities and personali ties, lots of giveaways, and a special balloon air launch.
YOUTH VILLAGES - BARTLETT CAMPUS
CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM
MEDDLESOME BREWING COMPANY
Memphis Proud Drag Show & Dance Party $20. Friday, Sept. 23, 6-11 p.m.
Rickydoc’s Traveling Medicine Show
Much Ado About Nothing
Two-dimensional exhibit that captures dynamic moments of motion. Through Sept. 25.
Discussion with Dr. Earnestine Jenkins
THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS
Shining Light on Wrongful Convictions
Explore the history and culture of Memphis’ LGBTQ+ community. Through Sept. 26.
Tennessee Equality Project Gumbo Contest
TEP’s annual celebration brings together teams from near and far to compete for
Wiseacre Oktoberfest
COMMUNITY CancerBlows
Hispanic Film Festival
ORPHEUM THEATRE
ART HAPPENINGS
FOOD AND DRINK
Meet the Author: Shira Shiloah Shira Shiloah celebrates the
Get a free native tree for your yard! Just drive up to the front entrance of Memphis College of Art, and volunteers will help you load your tree. Satur day, Sept. 24, noon-2 p.m.
A day of great live music, over 20 local vendors, killer local crafts, and free family fun. Sat urday, Sept. 24, noon-5 p.m.
Eat to Live Veganfest Fun, food, games, poetry, live entertainment, and charitable donations. Free. Saturday, Sept. 24, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
MUSEUM
OVERTON SQUARE
Featuring 20 brass legends backed by the Memphis Sym phony Orchestra and Robert Moody. Proceeds benefit cancer research and patient support.
Pink Palace Crafts Fair
Celebrate the fair’s big Five-O! Friday, Sept. 23-Sept. 25.
Steven Martin and Martin Short: You Won’t Believe What They Look Like Today!
Euro Fest
Meddlesome’s Craft Fair
Community Clothing Shop
Memphis Beer & Arcade Festival
National Good Neighbor Day in Memphis
NATIONAL
HATTILOO THEATRE
A show that redefines the comedy form in unexpected and profound ways. $95-$350. Saturday, Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m.
FESTIVAL
Latin Fest 2022
MUSEUM OF
CALENDAR of EVENTS: September 22 - 28
Live music, exhilarating rides, delicious food, ground acts, and so much more. Through Oct. 2.
Morgan Asoyuf’s Virtual Artist Talk
LANDERS CENTER
ANTIQUE WAREHOUSE MALL
Soulful Food Truck Festival - Fall Edition
Saturday, Sept. 24-Sept. 25.
Dust off your steins and leder hosen because Oktoberfest is back. Saturday, Sept. 24, 1 p.m.
PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE
THEATRE MEMPHIS
“Memphis Proud: The Resilience of a Southern LGBTQ+ Community”
WISEACRE BREWERY
Listen and dance to live Latin music, taste some Latin food and drinks, and enjoy crafts for kids, vendors, and fun. Free. Saturday, Sept. 24, noon-6 p.m.
RAILGARTEN
BLACK LODGE & FLIP SIDE
“Meet the Dixons”
Lineup includes Volume Five, Breaking Grass, Theo & Brenna, The Morton Twins, and more. $20. Saturday, Sept. 24, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Fundraiser Euro car show for Youth Villages. Free public view
Meet the Author: Aram Goudsouzian Aram Goudsouzian celebrates the release of Man on a Mission: James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss. Tuesday, Sept. 27, 6 p.m.
TIGER LANE
HEALTH AND FITNESS
PERFORMING ARTS
“Action!: Art in Motion”
OF SCIENCE & HISTORY
A white teen who has grown up in the affectionate com pany of two Black waiters learns that his viciously racist father is on his way home. $35. Through Sept. 25.
Raising crucial funds to ad vance research and treatment by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Saturday, Sept. 24, 8:30 a.m.
OVERTON PARK
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GOLD STRIKE CASINO
Volunteers will weed and repurpose raised beds to fa cilitate the hard-working bees.
OLD UA MOORE BALLFIELD
Get ready for the wildest weekend of the year, with four days of rockin’ music. Thurs day, Sept. 22-Sept. 25.
The biggest creator focused com ic convention in the Mid-South!
Hear from death row exoneree Anthony Ray Hinton, bestsell ing author of The Sun Does Shine. Free. Thursday, Sept. 22, 7 p.m.
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC
SCIENCE & HISTORY
UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVER SITY CENTER THEATER
the best gumbo in Memphis. Sunday, Sept. 25, 4:30-7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 24, 9 a.m.-noon. T.O. FULLER STATE PARK
METAL MUSEUM
Whodi
Whodi is a high-energy act. $15$30. Thursday, Sept. 22, 8 p.m.
Learn about Margaret and Hugo Dixon’s personal lives, their collections, and their legacy. Through Oct. 9.
Send the date, time, place, cost, info, phone number, a brief description, and photos — two weeks in advance — to calendar@memphisflyer.com.
Movies will be shown with English subtitles. Free. Tues day, Sept. 27, 6 p.m.
A music and spoken-word per formance with author Arthur Flowers and musicians. Free. Thursday, Sept. 22, 7-8:30 p.m.
THEATER
National Public Lands Day
LECTURE
COMEDY
At the “Meet the Dixons” exhibit, you can learn more about Margaret and Hugo’s dream to leave behind a special space to highlight art, nature, and beauty.
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Master Harold & the Boys
GRIND CITY BREWING COMPANY
Gonerfest 19
FOURTH BLUFF PARK
Book Release by Candy E. Harris
Native Tree Giveaway
FILM
One of Shakespeare’s best comedies. Through Oct. 2.
Highlighting elements from the museum’s “Love in the Club” photo exhibition. Free. Wednes day, Sept. 28, 7-9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 28, 6:30 p.m.
STAX
Pass Over
Saturday, Sept. 24, 7 p.m.
Aquatseli Bluegrass Festival
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at was last June. In October, their dip will go into stores for a test launch in Memphis. If that goes well, a er three months Walmart will try to put it in stores regionally.
ey opened a restaurant, Moore Food Catering, but they weren’t experienced enough to own a restaurant, Chris says.
e couple met at L’Ecole Culinaire culinary school in Memphis and went into business together a er they graduated. “We started out selling dinners out of our two-bedroom apartment,” Regina says.
e couple now work out of OtherFoods Kitchen, but they’re currently looking at buildings for their Chef Flava restaurant, which they want to turn into a franchise.
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at’s the dip created by chef Chris Moore, who, along with his wife chef Regina Moore, is the owner of Chef Flavas.“We won out of 13,000 companies on an open-call invitation,” Chris says. Out of that 13,000, 11,000 were “invited to the event to pitch their product. ere were maybe 330 companies that ended up getting the golden ticket to get inside Walmart.”
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Tim Stachowiak, vice president of sales for Phoenix, Arizona-based Next Phase Enterprises, which works with Walmart and Sam’s Club, is a fan. “I’m not a foodie,” he says. “I don’t get wowed by a lot. But my initial reaction was, ‘ at’s the best spinach artichoke dip I’ve ever had at retail. If not the best, the second-best I’ve had at a restaurant.’”
ook for Chef Flavas spinach artichoke dip at Walmart stores October 22nd.
As for cooking, Chris says, “ at’s the only career path I ever wanted to do.”
up under my mom when she was in the kitchen.”Hismother was a caterer, and his father owned a restaurant. Chris used to pretend to cook. He turned the family pool table into a “hibachi grill,” he says. “I’d take pool balls and put them on the plate and serve them to my brother.”
Chris’ mom, the late Valerie Hall, taught him how to make the dip. “I took it and put my own little spins on it,” heesays.dip, which he describes as “creamy, tangy, garlicky, and cheesy,” can be used in many dishes. “Our motto is ‘Unlock the inner chef in you.’ You can make stu ed salmon, stu ed chicken, oysters Rockefeller, put it in pastas, and spread it on top of your steak. It’s an aid for people in their kitchen, so they can have guaranteed ‘ ava’ when they make meals.”
Chris and Regina Moore’s Chef Flavas dip is currently available in area stores, including Memphis Cash Saver, Superlo Foods, and Cordelia’s Market.
at led to more CBD-infused products. But they also wanted to come up with products for people who didn’t like CBD-infused food. at’s when they came up with Chef Flavas, which also includes egg rolls, three types of pastas, and a frozen Alfredo sauce.
It will be Italian fusion, including a variety of pastas. Chris says, “I love ItalianChrisfood.”and Regina make a good team. “I’m the chef. She’s the ‘ ava.’ She makes all the stu pop. I’ll create and she’ll make it marketable so people know about it.”
Chef Flavas dip is heading to Walmart.
His mother let him try his hand in the kitchen when he was 11. “She allowed me to cook peas and carrots. at’s the rst thing I ever made. It was the best peas and carrots I’ve ever made in my whole life.”
In 2017, Chris made it to the second round of the Chopped “Squab Goals” episode on Food Network. He had to create a meal out of “mystery basket” ingredients in 15Reginaminutes.came up with the idea for Hemp Flavas, their line of CBD-infused condiments. A er she made a CBDavored cake, Chris thought it needed something else. “I felt it was a little dry. I took the CBD oil and made a sauce with it and poured it on top of the cake and it turned out phenomenal.”
He worked at various restaurants, including the Atlantic Restaurant in Edgartown, Massachusetts, where he cooked for Michelle and President Barack Obama.“It was just so surreal for me. I had ‘cooking for the Obamas’ on my bucket list since 2008 when he got into o ce.”
His mom was instrumental in his career path, Chris says. “I was always
Moonage Daydream is a kaleidoscopic portrait of David Bowie.
Don’t go into Moonage Daydream expecting a Behind the Music-style tell-all, with talking-head interviews o ering scandalous revelations. Morgan’s lm is closer to a fantasia, an impressionistic work of pure montage whose rst priority is marrying sound and vision. Bowie’s story is told mostly in his own words.
1978 Isolar II tour, recorded in Bowie’s hometown of Brixton. e band is a little ragged, and Bowie’s normally stoic delivery is tinged with plastic soul. It turns out to be a perfect choice, taking the song o its pedestal and reminding us that it is a thing awed humans made with their voices and hands.
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Moonage Daydream is an unusual yet carefully considered fantasia.
“ ey’re shoe-shoes,” deadpans Bowie. e director, who also edited, mines these freak shows for moments when Bowie would casually drop some real insight, such as when he admits that the Berlin sessions, now considered his artistic zenith, almost sank his career. ( e exception is writer Mavis Nicholson, whose incisive interview of Bowie on her short-lived BBC show provides Morgan with many of his best quotes.)
Bowie obsessives (such as myself) will notice many omissions, such as his surgical evisceration of MTV’s Mark Goodman, performed live on air when the VJ tried to defend the network’s racist omission of music videos by Black artists.
t’s now considered one of David Bowie’s iconic works, but “Heroes” was not a hit when it was rst released in October 1977. But Bowie loved the song, which was recorded during the now-legendary sessions with producer Brian Eno at Hansa studio in West Berlin. He always gave it a prominent position in his live shows, even when it sounded out of place during the poppy “Let’s Dance” era. en, on July 13, 1985, as 1.9 billion people worldwide watched the sun set over Wembley Stadium, Bowie looked out over the Live Aid crowd and dedicated his nal song to “My son, and all the children of the world.” at was the moment “Heroes” stopped being a song about the longing of doomed lovers and became something bigger — an anthem of everyday valor, a call to help save an ailing world. “We can be heroes/Just for one day.”
is is not the performance of the song that director Brett Morgan chooses to include in his kaleidoscopic documentary Moonage Daydream. Instead, he goes with a previously unreleased version from the
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Bowie was doing was Bowie himself. At one point, he plainly states that he designed the Ziggy Stardust persona as an androgynous space god modeled on his study of classical mythology, and it succeeded beyond his wildest dreams because he allowed fans to read more into it than was really there. e director backs up Bowie’s words with images of screaming teenagers in the audience of the nal Spiders from Mars show, captured by documentarian D.A. Pennebaker.
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Morgan’s decision to let the man speak for himself makes sense because usually the only person who understood what
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Bowie made a sport of talking circles around ill-prepared sensation mongers who had no idea what they were dealing with, such as the contemptuous chat show host who snarls, “Are those
gency with each added layer of drum and guitar, before segueing into a show-stop ping “Let’s Dance,” where Bowies of every era dance alongside the pompadoured crooner from the Serious Moonlight tour.
The performance footage is Moon age Daydream’s red meat, and Morgan’s choices are as unusual as they are carefully considered. The film’s first crescendo is a volcanic performance of “All the Young Dudes.” Here’s Bowie on harmonica, trading lines with Jeff Beck on a jam-out of “The Jean Genie.” There he is duet ting with a young Trent Reznor on Nine Inch Nails’ first tour. He’s on Saturday Night Live, transforming himself into a puppet while Klaus Nomi wails in the background. Where the remixing in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis betrayed a lack of confidence in the material, longtime Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti’s mixes serve to illuminate the songs. The ’80s rave-up “Modern Love” is introduced via an isolated piano line over scenes of Bowie visiting a Buddhist temple, growing in ur
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If you just want facts, watch the excel lent David Bowie: Five Years. Morgan’s ambitions are deeper. He wants to show us what it felt like to be the Starman. Bowie’s collaborators often remarked on his ability to push them to the outer edges of their talent. He seems to have had the same effect on Morgan, who has broken the music documentary and created some thing new and vital from the pieces. David would approve.
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at may be wishful thinking. Today white Christian nationalists would rather ght, openly opposing humanism. Despite having a secular Constitution, they falsely claim that America was founded as a Christian nation. ey criticize Je erson’s ideas of separating church and state, say that our laws should conform to Christian teaching, and work to restrict voting rights and personal freedoms. But then, freedom, equality, and democracy have never been the goals of Christianity.
inking Christians understand that while Christ’s teaching of love thy neighbor is central to a meaningful life, the fundamentalist world views are no longer relevant. People haven’t lost their way; they have found better ways to understand and cope with the complexities of modern society. Reason and fact have proven more e ective than myth and mysticism. Prayer may o er hope and comfort, but modern medicine cures. e success of secular humanism is further re ected in our increased understanding of the physical world and the advanced technology. Whatever one believes God to be, it is certain that humankind has developed, or was given, superior intelligence and the ability to reason, which we appear obligated to use. Christian fundamentalism may inhibit progress but cannot stop it. Banning books, concealing historical facts that make children uncomfortable, or requiring that creationism be taught along with evolution are wrongheaded and futile. e facts supporting evolution and the facts that led to the Civil War will always exist. Germany sets the right example. ere, teaching of the Holocaust is mandatory. Teaching the history of slavery and our treatment of Native Americans should be required here as well. Americans can rightfully be proud of our heritage and aware of our achievements and our Christianityfailings.has impacted our culture in positive ways. Martin Luther King Jr., for example, awakened our collective conscience to the atrocities of Jim Crow. But if Christianity is to be a force for good in modern society, it must reconcile itself with reality and our reasoned understanding of the modern world.
By opposing secular humanism, Christian fundamentalists oppose the very thing that inspired the founding fathers and the foundation of America. With their confused and mistaken view of American history, white Christian nationalists attack what they claim to be saving. ey are on the wrong side of history, and there is no stopping progress. Bob Topper is a retired engineer and is syndicated by PeaceVoice.
Were this claim valid, one would see moral decay paired with increased crime rates. But the data shows something very di erent. As religious belief has declined, so, too, have crime rates. And Denmark, Sweden, and other Western democracies that are far more secular than the U.S. have much lower crime rates. e correlation may be coincidental, but the statistics imply that crime and religious belief go hand in hand.
From the Revolution onward, personal freedom and human rights have been steadily expanded, ending slavery, securing women’s voting rights, guaranteeing civil rights, permitting interracial and gay marriage, and securing rights for gay and transgender people. Rather than a moral decline, secular humanism has generated a more just society, one that is inclusive, that recognizes that people are simply what nature’s god wants them to be.
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Few would think that, but Freakonomics economists Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner make the compelling case for an indirect relationship. ey show that the fall in crime rate is a consequence of Roe v. Wade, which reduced the number of unwanted children who would have been more likely to go astray. Levitt and Dubner’s conclusion is controversial, but if they are correct, future generations will see a rise in crime, due to the Christian crusade, which overturned Roe
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Yet as Christians portray themselves as victims, they have steadily gained power and in uence. Six of the nine presiding Supreme Court justices are Christian. ere was also a majority of Christian fundamentalists in the Trump administration. Christians have never been more in uential than they were in the Trump administration, just two short years ago. And Christians still dominate the Republican party. Christianity is certainly not in any immediate danger.
Speaking at an earlier Notre Dame event, former U.S. Attorney William Barr claimed there is an “assault on religion … not decay. is is organized destruction.” When Barr and Alito — Roman Catholics — say religion, their concern is Christianity. ey, along with evangelical ministers, regularly claim that their beliefs are under attack, that our modern society is decadent, and the cause of our moral decay is a decline in religiosity.
Christians say their religion is “under attack” while they’ve gained power and in uence.
But an even more compelling question is: Who is attacking Christianity? ough neither Barr nor Alito provides an answer, hate-crime statistics o er some insight. Fi y-eight percent of all hate-crime victims were targeted because of racial prejudice, 20.1 percent because of bias against religion, and 16.7 because of discrimination against sexual orientation.
On the other hand, the number of people who identify as Christian is declining. Christianity, especially fundamentalism, is threatened, not by a group of elitist liberals or some organized conspiracy. Religion is threatened by progress, the advance of civilization and science, especially the advance of secular humanism. Each generation in the U.S. is less religious than the previous.
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As keynote speaker at the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit conference in Rome last July, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said that “religious liberty is under attack.”
Christian nationalists attack what they claim to be saving.
In the religion category, bias against Jews was most signi cant at 60 percent, followed by anti-Muslim at 13 percent. Christian groups, including Catholic, Protestant, and other Christian branches, comprise 9 percent. So, of all hate crimes in America, crimes against Christians represent less than 2 percent. at is a serious matter, but while Jews are nearly seven times more likely to be the victims of hate crime, it is the Christians who complain. Shakespeare would think, “Christians doth protest too much.”
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