Tina Turner's Schoolhouse Turned Into Museum
The rural Tennessee one-room schoolhouse where Tina Turner went to school has been transformed into a museum honoring the soul singer. The West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center is opening the exhibit inside the Flagg Grove school in Brownsville, Tennessee.
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Not often do properties come on the market on LeMoyne Avenue in Washington County. 160 is located the colorful brick road, LeMoyne which is home to some 7 figure residences. This statuesque white traditional structure has a sweeping driveway across the front leading you to the lighted, over sized detached garage at the end of the super flat, lush green rear yard. Whether you greet your guests at the covered front porch or the covered rear porch, they will be wowed by the modern updates while maintaining the classic integrity. Hardwood floors, interior glass French doors, fireplaces, tons of windows, crown moulding, outlets/HVAC in the baseboards throughout 160 will be sure amaze you. As if that was not enough, the kitchen was renovated with light & dark cabinets, granite counter & back splash, high-end stainless appliances, farm house sink (of course) and more! Whew, that's it right? NO! I'll skip over all of the updated bathrooms, enormous amount of master bedroom storage to get to the finished like no other finished basement! One side has gaming (pool table) while the other side has a full bath, movie area done with the HIGHEST quality. Too much wow to transcribe into text, grab your pre-approval or POF & contact your Realtor to schedule an appointment NOW!
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Episode 3220.1 | Jay Farrell Photography | Tennessee Crossroads
Works of art come in many varieties. Some look to the future, others focus on the past. Tennessee Crossroads met Jay Farrell, a Nashville, TN artist who is focused on what abandoned and crumbling buildings can tell us about the people who built them. Join Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads to find out more.
Artist : Gabriel Trevino A Mexican-American Painter
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Auburn RV Park at Leisuretime Campground
This is a video of Auburn RV Park at Leisuretime Campground in Auburn Alabama, Home of Auburn University. We are located on Interstate I-85 Exit 51 and are the Auburn-Opelika areas easiest on and off interstate RV park as well as the only RV park located inside the city limits of Auburn, Alabama.
We have plenty of large pull thru Big Rig sites as well as sites to fit most any size RV, we also have several large pull through campsites with full hookups available bordering Parkerson Mill Creek where you can open your windows at night and be relaxed by the sound of the flowing waters.we also even have a few tent camping sites, all sites are full hookups with water, sewer, cable, WI-FI, 50amp, 30amp and 20amp services, there is also a really nice men's and women's bath house facility that is heated and cooled. We offer reasonable nightly, weekly and monthly rates. We also have a laundry facility, vending area, ice machine, bicycle rentals and business center on site for your convenience. Pull thru access to propane and diesel are also available at the same turn in for the park.
Our park is perfect for the easy overnight stay right off of I-85 to be able to pull off and not have to unhook your tow vehicle and be able to walk to eating establishments such as Ruby Tuesdays, McDonalds, Philly Connection, Pannie Georges Southern style cooking etc.
We are are also a great place to use as your base of operations for exploring the Auburn-Opelika area and Auburn University and can offer tours of the area and town from a Lifelong residents perspective. Also if you have business in the area and need access to our business center and high speed data capabilities, copying, faxing etc we can assist and also offer advice and connections to local markets of businesses we do business with. If you don't have a tow vehicle don't worry, we wouldn't mind giving you a ride into town or arranging a rental car or we also have several taxi services that service our park.
Attractions within walking distance include a Water Park connected with our property right next door surfsidewaterpark.com and also a world class Softball Complex right next door as well that the park has some premium sites overlooking, also across the street is the 18 hole Auburn Links Golf Course if you would like to bring your clubs auburnlinks.com. Also within biking distance is Chewacla state park which has many beautiful natural attributes, the 2 mile Charlotte and Curtis Ward bike trail is a masterpiece of a bike trail because it is off road and paved the entire way to the park, this is perfect for a morning run or biking outing. Auburn is the only city in Alabama to have been awarded and recognized as a Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists. This is a link to a PDF showing our network of bike paths
Some other area attractions include Auburn University auburn.edu, The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art , 6 incredible Area golf courses Lovelace Hall of Honor Auburn Sports Museum , Auburn Arena auburnarena.com
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Per aspera ad astra
Per aspera ad astra or Ad astra per aspera is a Latin phrase which means any of the following: Through hardships to the stars, A rough road leads to the stars or To the stars through difficulties. The phrase is one of many Latin sayings which use the expression Ad astra.
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Memphis, Tennessee | Wikipedia audio article
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- Socrates
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Memphis is located along the Mississippi River in southwestern Tennessee. The estimated city population in 2017 was 652,236, with a 2017 metropolitan population of 1,348,260 including adjacent suburbs and counties as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. The city is considered the anchor of West Tennessee and the greater Mid-South region, which includes portions of neighboring Arkansas and Mississippi. Memphis is the seat of Shelby County, the most populous county in Tennessee. As one of the most historic and cultural cities of the southern United States, the city features a wide variety of landscapes and distinct neighborhoods.
The land of present day Memphis was first discovered by Spanish conquistador Hernando DeSoto in 1541 with his expedition into the New World. The high bluffs protecting the location from the waters of the Mississippi would then be contested between the Spanish, French, and the English as Memphis took shape. Modern Memphis was founded in 1819 by three prominent Americans: John Overton, James Winchester, and future president Andrew Jackson.Memphis grew into one of the largest cities of the Antebellum South as a market for agricultural goods, natural resources like lumber, and the American slave trade. After the American Civil War and the end of slavery, the city experienced even faster growth into the 20th century as it became among the largest world markets for cotton and lumber.
Home to Tennessee's largest African-American population, Memphis played a prominent role in the American civil rights movement and was the site of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1968 assassination. The city now hosts the National Civil Rights Museum—a Smithsonian affiliate institution. Since the civil rights era, Memphis has grown to become one of the nation's leading commercial centers in transportation and logistics. The city's largest employer is the multinational courier corporation FedEx, which maintains its global air hub at Memphis International Airport, making it the second-busiest cargo airport in the world.
Today, Memphis is a regional center for commerce, education, media, art, and entertainment. The city has long had a prominent music scene, with historic blues clubs on Beale Street originating the unique Memphis blues sound during early 20th century. The city's music has continued to be shaped by a multi-cultural mix of influences across the blues, country, rock n' roll, soul, and hip-hop genres. Memphis barbecue has achieved international prominence, and the city hosts the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, which attracts over 100,000 visitors to the city annually.
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Memphis, Tennessee - Wiki
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U S state of Tennessee and the county seat of Shelby County The city is located on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff south of the confluence of the Wolf...
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The First Lady Speaks to Students
First Lady Michelle Obama talks to students about the importance of following their passions and chasing their dreams before a workshop with musicians Lyle Lovett, Darius Rucker, and Kris Kristofferson. November 21, 2011.
Louisiana Tech University
Louisiana Tech University, colloquially referred to as Louisiana Tech or La. Tech, is a coeducational public research university in Ruston, Louisiana, United States. Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier One national university by the 2016 U.S. News & World Report college rankings and is the only Tier One national university in the nine-member University of Louisiana System. As a designated space grant college, member of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, member of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, and Carnegie Research University with high research activity, Louisiana Tech conducts research with ongoing projects funded by agencies such as NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and the Federal Aviation Administration. Louisiana Tech is one of less than 50 comprehensive research universities in the nation and the only university in Louisiana to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research and a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education and Research by the National Security Agency and the United States Department of Homeland Security. The university is known for its engineering and science programs.
Louisiana Tech opened as the Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana in 1894 during the Second Industrial Revolution. The original mission of the college was for the education of students in the arts and sciences for the purpose of developing an industrial economy in post-Reconstruction Louisiana. Four years later, the state constitution changed the school's name to Louisiana Industrial Institute. In 1921, the college changed its name to Louisiana Polytechnic Institute to reflect its evolution into a larger and more capable institute of technology. Under the leadership of Dr. F. Jay Taylor, the college continued to grow and change over time. Louisiana Polytechnic Institute became desegregated in the 1960s and officially changed its name to Louisiana Tech University in 1970 as the school developed into a research university.
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04/16/2019 Fair Board Meeting
Coverage of the Board of Fair Commissioners Meeting held at the Nashville Fairgrounds on April 16, 2019
The Juneteenth Book Festival Symposium on Black Literature & Literacy
A day-long symposium on Juneteenth, one of the oldest observances marking the end of the enslavement of African descendants in the United States. The holiday has been celebrated in Galveston, Texas, since June 19, 1865, when news of the Emancipation Proclamation first was announced in Texas. Today, Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom with an emphasis on education and literacy. The opened with a history of Juneteenth. Three panels followed on The State of Black Literature, The Stakeholders of Black Literacy and Independent Artists: Our Journey as Storytellers of the African Diaspora.
Speaker Biography: Hari Jones is curator of the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Haki Madhubuti is founder of of Third World Press, the longest-running independent black-owned publishing company in the U.S.
Speaker Biography: E. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist, poet and editor.
Speaker Biography: Nikki Woods is a social media consultant and senior producer of The Tom Joyner Morning Show.
Speaker Biography: Yanick Rice-Lam is a journalist, associate professor at Howard University and co-founder of FierceforBlackWomen.com, a digital health and fitness network.
Speaker Biography: Brenda Greene is director of the National Black Writers Conference and executive director of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York.
Speaker Biography: Bomani Armah is known as Mr. Read a Book and the Poet with a Hip-Hop Style.
Speaker Biography: Bahiyyah Muhammad is assistant professor of criminology at Howard University and founder of Project Iron Kids, which educates and empowers children of incarcerated parents.
Speaker Biography: Rahman Branch is former principal of Ballou High School in Washington, D.C., and the first executive director of the Office of African American Affairs in the Office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia.
Speaker Biography: Gabriel Asheru Benn is an international hip-hop artist and co-founder of Educational Lyrics, which sponsors H.E.L.P, the Hip Hop Educational Literacy Program.
Speaker Biography: Beverly East is an international forensic-document examiner and author.
Speaker Biography: Hafiz F. Shabazz is adjunct assistant professor and director of the World Music Percussion Ensemble at Dartmouth College, where he developed the Oral Tradition Musicianship course and produced more than 85 major concerts.
Speaker Biography: Haile Gerima is distinguished professor of film at Howard University and an independent Ethiopian filmmaker who produced and directed the 1993 film Sankofa.
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Lambert–St. Louis International Airport | Wikipedia audio article
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Lambert–St. Louis International Airport
00:01:55 1 History
00:02:04 1.1 Beginnings
00:04:43 1.2 1945–1982: Post World War II expansion; Ozark Airlines hub
00:08:50 1.3 1982–2001: Trans World Airlines hub
00:13:43 1.4 2001–2009: American Airlines hub; closure of Air National Guard base
00:18:28 1.5 2009–2017: Southwest expansion; rebirth of the airport
00:24:07 1.6 2017–Present: Continued growth
00:32:18 2 Facilities
00:32:27 2.1 Control Tower
00:32:48 2.2 Runways
00:33:18 2.3 Terminals
00:33:56 2.3.1 Terminal 1
00:37:52 2.3.2 Terminal 2
00:39:29 2.4 Aircraft production
00:42:52 2.5 Other facilities
00:43:18 3 Modernization
00:43:27 3.1 21st-century renovation
00:44:58 4 Art and historical pieces
00:45:08 4.1 iBlack Americans in Flight/i mural
00:46:34 4.2 Aircraft on display
00:47:32 5 Cargo operations
00:47:42 5.1 China cargo hub and Aerotropolis endeavour
00:50:03 5.2 U.S. - Mexico Dual-Customs Cargo Facility
00:54:02 6 Airlines and destinations
00:54:12 6.1 Passenger
00:54:20 6.2 Cargo
00:54:28 7 Statistics
00:54:37 7.1 Passenger and Operational Statistics
00:54:47 7.2 Airline market share
00:54:56 7.3 Top destinations
00:55:05 7.4 Annual traffic
00:55:14 7.5 Cargo Statistics
00:55:23 7.6 Based Aircraft
00:55:38 8 Ground transportation
00:55:47 8.1 Mass transit/light rail/subway
00:56:13 8.2 MetroBus
00:56:31 8.3 Road
00:56:58 9 Accidents and incidents
00:57:08 9.1 Accidents
01:01:52 9.2 Incidents
01:03:23 10 In popular culture
01:03:32 10.1 Television
01:04:06 10.2 Film
01:05:07 11 Public Safety
01:05:40 12 See also
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St. Louis Lambert International Airport (IATA: STL, ICAO: KSTL, FAA LID: STL), formerly Lambert–St. Louis International Airport, is an international airport serving St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It is 14 miles (23 km) northwest of downtown St. Louis in unincorporated St. Louis County between Berkeley and Bridgeton. Commonly referred to as Lambert Field or simply Lambert, it is the largest and busiest airport in Missouri with over 270 daily departures to over 80 domestic and international locations. In 2017, 14.7 million passengers traveled through the airport. The airport is a focus city for Southwest Airlines and serves as a hub for Air Choice One and Cape Air, and was formerly a hub for Ozark Air Lines, Trans World Airlines, and American Airlines. It is the largest U.S. airport classified as a medium-sized primary hub and currently the second busiest after Dallas–Love.St. Louis Lambert International Airport is the primary airport in the St. Louis area, with MidAmerica St. Louis Airport, about 37 miles (59 km) east, serving as a secondary metropolitan commercial airport. The two airports are connected by the Red Line of the city's light rail mass transit system, the MetroLink. Both airports are currently served by commercial passenger airlines.
Named for Albert Bond Lambert, an Olympic medalist and prominent St. Louis aviator, the airport rose to international prominence in the 20th century thanks to its association with Charles Lindbergh, its groundbreaking air traffic control, its status as the primary hub of Trans World Airlines, and its iconic terminal. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki, the building inspired terminals at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France.
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Civil rights movement | Wikipedia audio article
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Civil rights movement
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The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) in the United States was a decades-long movement with the goal of enforcing constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already enjoyed. With roots starting in the Reconstruction era during the late 19th century, the movement achieved its largest legislative gains in the mid-1960s, after years of direct actions and grassroots protests organized from the mid-1950s until 1968. Encompassing strategies, various groups, and organized social movements to accomplish the goals of ending legalized racial segregation, disenfranchisement, and discrimination in the United States, the movement, using major nonviolent campaigns, eventually secured new recognition in federal law and federal protection of all Americans.
After the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery in the 1860s, the Reconstruction Amendments to the United States Constitution granted emancipation and constitutional rights of citizenship to all African Americans, most of whom had recently been enslaved. For a period, African Americans voted and held political office, but they were increasingly deprived of civil rights, often under Jim Crow laws, and subjected to discrimination and sustained violence by whites in the South. Over the following century, various efforts were made by African Americans to secure their legal rights. Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations and productive dialogues between activists and government authorities. Federal, state, and local governments, businesses, and communities often had to respond immediately to these situations, which highlighted the inequities faced by African Americans across the country. The lynching of Chicago teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi, and the outrage generated by seeing how he had been abused, when his mother decided to have an open-casket funeral, mobilized the African-American community nationwide. Forms of protest and/or civil disobedience included boycotts, such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–56) in Alabama; sit-ins such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina and successful Nashville sit-ins in Tennessee; marches, such as the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade and 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) in Alabama; and a wide range of other nonviolent activities.
Moderates in the movement worked with Congress to achieve the passage of several significant pieces of federal legislation that overturned discriminatory practices and authorized oversight and enforcement by the federal government. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 expressly banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment practices; ended unequal application of voter registration requirements; and prohibited racial segregation in schools, at the workplace, and in public accommodations. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 restored and protected voting rights for minorities by authorizing federal oversight of registration and elections in areas with historic under-representation of minorities as voters. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. African Americans re-entered politics in the South, and across the country young people were inspired to take action.
From 1964 through 1970, a wave of inner-city riots in black communities undercut support from the white middle class, but increased support from private foundations. The emergence of the Black Power movement, which lasted from about 1965 to 1975, challenged the established black leadership for its cooperative attitude and its practice of nonviolence. Instead, its leaders demanded that, in addition to the new laws gained through the nonviolent movement, political and economic self-suffici ...
War On Everyone
Two corrupt cops in New Mexico, Terry (Alexander Skarsgård, The Legend of Tarzan) and Bob (Michael Peña, Ant-Man), set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister turn, however, when they try to intimidate a man more dangerous than they are.
Civil rights movement | Wikipedia audio article | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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SUMMARY
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The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) in the United States was a decades-long movement with the goal of enforcing constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already enjoyed. With roots starting in the Reconstruction era during the late 19th century, the movement achieved its largest legislative gains in the mid-1960s, after years of direct actions and grassroots protests organized from the mid-1950s until 1968. Encompassing strategies, various groups, and organized social movements to accomplish the goals of ending legalized racial segregation, disenfranchisement, and discrimination in the United States, the movement, using major nonviolent campaigns, eventually secured new recognition in federal law and federal protection of all Americans.
After the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery in the 1860s, the Reconstruction Amendments to the United States Constitution granted emancipation and constitutional rights of citizenship to all African Americans, most of whom had recently been enslaved. For a period, African Americans voted and held political office, but they were increasingly deprived of civil rights, often under Jim Crow laws, and subjected to discrimination and sustained violence by whites in the South. Over the following century, various efforts were made by African Americans to secure their legal rights. Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations and productive dialogues between activists and government authorities. Federal, state, and local governments, businesses, and communities often had to respond immediately to these situations, which highlighted the inequities faced by African Americans across the country. The lynching of Chicago teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi, and the outrage generated by seeing how he had been abused, when his mother decided to have an open-casket funeral, mobilized the African-American community nationwide. Forms of protest and/or civil disobedience included boycotts, such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–56) in Alabama; sit-ins such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina and successful Nashville sit-ins in Tennessee; marches, such as the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade and 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) in Alabama; and a wide range of other nonviolent activities.
Moderates in the movement worked with Congress to achieve the passage of several significant pieces of federal legislation that overturned discriminatory practices and authorized oversight and enforcement by the federal government. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 expressly banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment practices; ended unequal application of voter registration requirements; and prohibited racial segregation in schools, at the workplace, and in public accommodations. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 restored and protected voting rights for minorities by authorizing federal oversight of registration and elections in areas with historic under-representation of minorities as voters. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. African Americans re-entered politics in the South, and across the country young people were inspired to take action.
From 1964 through 1970, a wave of inner-city riots in black communities undercut support from the white middle class, but increased support from private foundations. The emergence of the Black Power movement, which lasted from about 1965 to 1975, challenged the established black leadership for its cooperative attitude and its practice of nonviolence. Instead, its leaders demanded that, in addition to the new laws gained through the nonviolent movement, political and economic self-sufficienc ...