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Tami Sawyer Talks presents informed, independent, and engaging digital commentary hosted by activist and former elected official Tami Sawyer. Tami Sawyer tackles global and US issues through the lens of her reality as a southern Black woman. Each episode includes a special segment on the southern United States and her hometown of Memphis, TN.
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Forget about getting mad or getting even, this is a political show about how we are moving forward. Movement building pros Gina Christo and Wilnelia Rivera helped get Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-7) elected and know how deep democracy works when it centers the people we usually see at the margins. Each month they look at dumpster fires happening on the political ground and highlight the women, queer folk, and POC fighting the good fight and winning key battles across the country.
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Shelby County Elections Administrator Linda Phillips talks on the “On The Record” podcast about the upcoming August elections and voter turnout. Meanwhile, the latest election commission count shows 593,121 voters countywide as of May - an increase of approximately 10,000 voters from two years ago.بقلم The Daily Memphian
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Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris talked on The Daily Memphian’s “On The Record” podcast about his $1.6 billion county budget proposal and the change to more local funding for a rebuilding of the Regional One Health campus.بقلم The Daily Memphian
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County Commissioner Henri Brooks found out two years ago she was adopted through the Tennessee Children’s Home Society - a notorious black market adoption operation. Her lawsuit against the state could open a “floodgate.” Brooks talked about the sudden revelation in The Daily Memphian’s “On The Record” podcast series.…
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Marcus Pohlmann is a former political science professor at Rhodes College whose 2008 book “Opportunity Lost: Race and Poverty in Memphis City Schools” is required reading for teachers and school administrators in Memphis-Shelby County Schools. It is a case study of busing in Memphis City Schools.
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Roderick Richmond started at Shannon Elementary School as his neighborhood school at a time when busing as well as private schools were changing the definition of neighborhood schools in public and private school systems. For the first grade, he was bused to Wells Station Elementary School, which racially was a school in transition. His time as a s…
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Roshun Austin is a founder of The Works Inc., a community development corporation. She is also a planner who works as a developer in some of the communities affected the most by the impact of busing. She grew up in the Hyde Park section of North Memphis. Austin is also on the board of Memphis Fourth Estate, the nonprofit behind The Daily Memphian.…
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Steve Steffens arrived in Memphis with his family from rural Illinois and Arkansas in 1972, a semester before Plan A began. His neighborhood school was Oakshire Junior High in Whitehaven as an eighth grader. Oakshire and greater Whitehaven beyond the school was predominantly white at the time. Steffens and his family were part of that white majorit…
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Episode 5 of the Tami Sawyer Talks Memphis Mayoral Candidate Series features Van Turner, former County Commissioner and civil rights attorney. More info about Van Turner can be found at www.vanformemphis.com Seventeen candidates are on the ballot to be the next mayor of Memphis, and the people want to get to know them. Sourcing questions from socia…
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Episode 4 of the Tami Sawyer Talks Memphis Mayoral Candidate Series features JW Gibson, former County Commissioner and entrepreneur. More info about JW Gibson can be found at www.jwgibsonformayor.com Seventeen candidates are on the ballot to be the next mayor of Memphis, and the people want to get to know them. Sourcing questions from social media …
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Episode 3 of the Tami Sawyer Talks Memphis Mayoral Candidate Series features Reggie Hall, South Memphis community leader and entrepreneur. More info about Reggie Hall can be found at www.reggiehallformayor.com Nineteen candidates have filed to run to be the next mayor of Memphis, and the people want to get to know them. Sourcing questions from soci…
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Episode 2 of the Tami Sawyer Talks Memphis Mayoral Candidate Series features Michelle McKissack, currently a member of the Memphis-Shelby County School Board. More info about Michelle McKissack can be found at www.michelleformemphis.com Eighteen candidates are expected to run to be the next mayor of Memphis and the people want to get to know them. …
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This week Tami talks about SCOTUS' decisions and how the court upholds white supremacy and views Black Americans as second-class citizens. ---To Do List-- FOLLOW Tami on Twitter @tamisawyer / Instagram @tamisawyer901 READ Nikole Hannah-Jones - The Resegregation of Jefferson County READ Kwame Ture - Black Power WATCH James Baldwin: The Price of The …
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Episode 1 of the Tami Sawyer Talks Memphis Mayoral Candidate Series features Paul Young, Executive Director of the Downtown Memphis Commission. More info about Paul Young can be found at www.youngformayor.com Fourteen candidates are running to be the next mayor of Memphis and the people want to get to know them. Sourcing questions from social media…
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The Daily Memphian's Sam Hardiman sits down with Cole Perry of Perry Strategies, which worked on Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland's two campaigns. Perry shares his insight on the crowded 2023 race and peels back the layers on what a successful campaign looks like.
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Nine years ago this month all trolleys stopped running following a fire on the Madison line. Nine years later, the Riverfront loop and Madison Avenue line are still down. MATA’s chief development officer talks about the delay on The Daily Memphian’s “On The Record” podcast.
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Three contenders reported raising $300,000 or better in the first report of the mayor’s race. J.W. Gibson talked on The Daily Memphian’s “On The Record” podcast about his mix of contributions with self financing and why he wants to depart from outgoing Mayor Jim Strickland’s “brilliant at the basics” theme.…
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Next week, a specially equipped vehicle will begin a drive around of the city collecting data for later analysis on potholes and the condition of streets. The data will be analyzed to find and repair stretches of road for immediate action. The city is also experimenting with artificial intelligence that could make calling in reports of potholes a t…
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The certified vote totals from the November election show an increase in the number of provisional ballots cast and counted compared to the August elections. The votes added didn’t change any of the outcomes on the November ballot, but they did boost the turnout to 34.4%.
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The Daily Memphian’s “On The Record” podcast takes closer look at the unofficial results in the Tuesday Nov. 8 election and finds a lackluster show of support for the Democratic nominee for Governor in the bluest county in the state as well as interesting numbers from the four amendments to the state constitution.…
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