#Benton Harbor

[detroitlib]

View of the Public Library in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Men, women and children gather on steps and benches. Printed on front: "Benton Harbor Library, Benton Harbor, Mich." Printed on back: "No. 44. Publ. by Burkhard Bros., St. Joseph, Mich." Handwritten on back: "Feb. 12th. Dear Friends, Harvey arrived safe Friday eve on the [undecipherable] well and is feeling well but has the stomache [sic] because he ate so much chicken for dinner at [undecipherable]. Love to all, Helen." Card is postmarked February 13, 1911.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[theshowroom]

ATG-House Of David by Archmagechemosh for MLB The Show 24

ATG 1935

[wall-ghosts]

[vox-anglosphere]

The west wind sure howls during ice storms on the Great Lakes..

A frozen lighthouse on Lake Michigan.

[tachyonblu]

Premiering July 5th at 1PM EST! Peter Coffin says he doesn't want to be a games journalist and that he was pressured off the air of Michigan's WSJM over his criticisms of the Whirlpool Corporation, which he says tries to control Benton Harbor.

[ammiemarie]

Meet-and-Greet with Buddy Jewell

At the Mendel Center, Lake Michigan College, Benton Harbor, Michigan on March 26, 2004.

[paliwalls]

أنقذوا غزة بينتون هاربور، ميشيغان

"Save Gaza"

Spotted in Benton Harbor, Michigan

[grahamandmorton]

Graham and Morton Fall Schedule, 1907

[orderjackalope]

On this day (February 16) in 1903 the Peter and Cox munitions factory in Fostoria, OH explodes, killing nine workers and seriously injuring three more. Among the dead is Hettie Purnell, age 16. Her father is Benjamin F. Purnell, is the head a local colony of Christian Israelites, The House of David, more colloquially referred to as "The Flying Rollers."

Adult Flying Rollers take the Vow of the Nazirite (Numbers 6), which forbids contact with the dead. As a result, Purnell refuses to claim his daughter's body from the morgue, or even acknowledge that she has died. Locals have a hard time understanding this, and turns against the Christian Israelites. An angry mob assaults their church, but is repelled by the police. The Christian Israelites get the message, though, and relocate to Benton Harbor, MI.

(We discussed the long strange history of America's Christian Israelite sects in the episode "Exceeding Great.")

[mieczyhistory]

July 1940 - Recruitment poster in Benton Harbor, Michigan

william l.bird,jr.harry.r.rubenstein.1998.pg.16

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Solid, 1928 brick fixer-upper in Benton Harbor, MI has 4bds, 2ba, and some very unique features. It was reduced $10K to $69,900. Let's take a look inside and see what needs to be done. Outside, we can see that it needs new stairs and the wood trim needs tending to. Roof looks okay.

Back of the house. It's going to need some leaders and gutters.

2 car garage doesn't look too bad. Looks like it needs a window pane.

This little building is adorable, but it's really been neglected. Needs some replacement fencing, too. 6,969 sq ft lot.

Some work has been done. Looks like new flooring.

Definitely new floors, and look at the doorways. Interesting.

Has a nice sun porch.

Looks like they put up some new drywall and painted it gray.

Two closets and a window seat.

That's interesting, a round hole in the wall. Are the doorways meant to be a little off-center?

Kitchen needs new flooring. One thing about those dated cabinets, is that they're sturdy. I would keep them, at least for now, and maybe paint them. Maybe not, maybe just refresh them.

One of the bedrooms with a closet.

Another bedroom.

This bath is yucky. I would say total gut.

These stairs are weird.

They've got the fridge stored in here and there's the 2nd bath.

Actually, the sinks look salvageable.

Tub and toilet look okay. Just needs a new seat.

The basement is the most interesting place and has potential. It's got good natural light.

This looks fairly new, but why is it missing the panel.

A lone built-in desk? Weird.

Now, here's your indoor pool. According to the real estate description, " Yes this is that house with the little pool in the basement! Solid, Sturdy and Sound they definitely don't make them like this anymore." I agree- it is little. But, it's unique.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1064-Colfax-Ave-Benton-Harbor-MI-49022/73876338_zpid/

[porcelainapparition]

Benton Harbor, Michigan

built in 1910

[sataniccapitalist]

Body camera footage reveals Officers George Kanyuh and Matthew Okaiye conspiring to plant drugs on Dakaria Larriett in Benton Harbor, MI, according to lawsuit allegations.

[rgr-pop]

i have a (unrelated) professional meeting in a few weeks with the archivist responsible for state prison records. you can request inmate files as a patron and i want to go through that process to see what it’s like (i do this for everything, not enough archivists are user services brained). i want the files on grandma fran’s brother in law, who spent a few months in jackson in 1914 or so for probably assaulting grandma’s sister. but he ended up getting out because they argued she was older than she said—exTREME old world messiness. his name is a name you would come up with if i told you to think of a jewish guy’s name as dead common in 1913 as it would be today. but he ended up changing it (name change petitions—another source i’ve never used but always wanted to, had a professor who wrote a book with these—later). i thought maybe to distance himself from the case, but his name was so wildly common it was already difficult to track him anywhere. (his wife’s name is fairly uncommon now but was insanely common for jewish immigrant girls then, so much so that his parents likely had exactly the same names as he and his wife.) so maybe for classic jewish name reasons—and they would go on, decades later, to convert to christianity. but: shortly after his case there was another jewish boy with exactly his name all over the news, he caught leprosy, i think he lived in the benton harbor jewish colony. my first thought was that i’d be relieved, if i wanted to run from my notoriety, if some guy with the same name did something flashier, and the public lost my trail. (seo brain maybe.) but then i found this article about how after the leper news, jewish guys in michigan with exactly this name (again there were many) were facing widespread discrimination on account of being mistaken for a leper. so who knows! anyway i’m gonna file my request for his papers now so maybe it’ll be a fun conversation starter at the meeting.

[stevebattle]

HERO 2000 (1986) by Heathkit, Benton Harbor, Michigan. “HERO 2000 features advanced programmability. This incredible robot has a 16-bit 8088 master microprocessor that runs user programs and eleven 8-bit peripheral microprocessors. This lets you simultaneously operate HERO 2000’s sensory and manipulative functions. There’s also HERO 2000 BASIC stored in the 64K ROM. … The synthesized voice lets HERO talk, play music and even emit sound effects. And for easy programming, HERO 2000 has direct text-to-speech conversion. … The optional robot arm is multi-jointed with a gripper that has a sense of touch. The arm lifts one pound in any direction, plus has full wrist action and accurate repeatability.”

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Kamala/ James Arthur Harris

James Arthur “Kamala” Harris was a professional wrestler best known for his professional wrestling persona, Kamala, a fictional Ugandan giant. Harris was born on May 28, 1950, to Jessie Harris and Betsy Mosely in Senatobia, Mississippi. He had four sisters as well. Harris grew up in Coldwater, Mississippi where his family owned a furniture store. When he was four years old, his father was murdered after a dice game. Growing up, he worked as a sharecropper to help provide for the family. Harris dropout out of high school in the ninth grade and became a burglar.

In 1967, on the advice of police, Harris left Mississippi and moved to Florida where he worked a truck driver and fruit picker. He next moved to Benton Harbor, Michigan where he met a professional wrestler Bobo Brazil who became his trainer. In 1978, Harris made his professional wrestling debut as “Sugar Bear” Harris. One year later, in 1979 he won his first professional wrestling championship in the National Wrestling Association (NWA) Tri-State Tag Team competition with wrestler Oki Shikina. In 1980 he joined Southeastern Championship Wrestling as “Bad News” Harris and later that year won its championship. In 1982, Harris joined the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) after being offer by a job by promoter Jerry O’Neal “The King” Lawler.

While wrestling for CWA, Lawler and another wrestling promoter, Jerry Winston Jarret, created a new wrestling character for Harris. This character, named Kamala, was a stereotypical Ugandan headhunter with face and body painting who was supposed to be the bodyguard of former President of Uganda Idi Amin. Harris then joined Mid-South Wrestling owned by promoter William Harris and remained with the organization until 1986.

Harris wrestled with other wrestling organizations during his career including World Class Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE), and World Championship Wrestling before retiring in 2010 at the age of 60.

Despite his long successful wrestling career, Harris had numerous personal and health related issues. In 2011, had his left leg amputated below the knee due to complications from high blood pressure and diabetes. A year later, his right leg was also amputated below the knee. As a result of the amputations, a charity fund was set up to help with his financial needs.

In 2016, Harris was part of a class action lawsuit filed against World Wrestling Entertainment claiming that wrestlers received traumatic brain injuries during their time with WWE. Unfortunately for Harris and other wrestlers, the lawsuit was dismissed by Judge Vanessa Lynne Bryant in 2018.

Harris was married twice during his lifetime, first to Clara Freeman. That marriage ended in divorce. He later married Emmer Jean Bradley and that marriage lasted until his death. He was also father six children, five daughters and one son.

In 2017, Harris underwent lifesaving emergency surgery to clear fluid from around his heart and lungs. His health problems continued. He was hospitalized on August 5, 2020, after testing positive from COVID-19 during the pandemic in Mississippi. Four days later, on August 9, Harris died from complications from diabetes and COVID-19 in Oxford, Mississippi. He was 70.

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/kamala-james-arthur-harris-1950-2020/