#Tennessee O'neal

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Sensitive type

Heart throb

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[ID: a drawing of tennessee from disney's country bear jamboree. he has top surgery scars. he's holding his instrument with a grin. the background is a pale pink. /end ID]

was in a country bear mood

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A List of Works Influencing and Referenced by IWTV Season 1

Season 2 here, Season 3 here

Works Directly Referenced:

Marriage in a Free Society by Edward Carpenter

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Cheri by Collete

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

La Nausee by Jean-Paul Sartre (credit to @demonicdomarmand )

Complete Poetry of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. Johnson*

Blue Book by Tom Anderson

The Book of Abramelin the Mage

Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti with libretto by Giovanni Ruffini

Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky with libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky

Pelleas et Melisande by Claude Debussy

Epigraphes Antiques by Claude Debussy

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Nosferatu (1922)

The Graduate (1967)

Marie Antoinette (1938)

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis by Michael Ranft (1728)

Emily Post’s Etiquette

Bach’s Minuet in G Major (arranged as vampire minuet in G major)

Works Cited by the Writer’s Room as Influences:

Bourbon Street: A History by Richard Campanella (as it hardly mentions Storyville I think interested parties would be better served by additional titles if they want a complete history of New Orleans)

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (This was also adapted into an award winning opera)

poetry by Charles Simic (possibly A Wedding in Hell?)

poetry by Mark Strand (possibly Dark Harbour?)

As seen in Daniel’s apartment & quoted on his LinkedIn account:

The Savage Garden by Mark Mills credit to @speckled-jim

Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff credit to @spreckled-jim

America and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide by Alan S. Blinder credit to @speckled-jim

Dairy Queen Days by Robert Inman credit to @speckled-jim

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R. Brown credit to @speckled-jim

Attila: the Judgement by William Napier credit to @speckled-jim

In A Heartbeat by Rosalind Noonan credit to @spreckled-jim

The Lost Recipe for Happiness by Barbara O'Neal credit to @speckled-jim

Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism" by Jacques Dupuis credit to @speckled-jim

Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole's Gothic Castle by Anna Chalcraft & Judith Viscardi credit to @speckled-jim

Sailing to Byzantium by Yeats

The Circus Animal's Desertion by Yeats

The Second Coming by Yeats

Artworks referenced (much credit in this section to @iwtvfanevents and to @nicodelenfent )

Fall of The Rebel Angels by Peter Bruegel The Elder (1562)

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt (1633)

Three Peaches on a Stone Plinth by Adriaen Coorte (1705)

Strawberries and Cream Raphaelle Peale, (1816) credit to @diasdelfeugo

Red Mullet and Eel by Edouard Manet (1864)

Starry Night by Edvard Munch (1893)

Self Portrait by Edvard Munch (1881)

Captain Percy Williams on a Favorite Irish Hunter by Samuel Sidney (1881)

Autumn at Arkville by Alexander H. Wyant 

Cumulus Clouds, East River by Robert Henri 

Mildred-O Hat by Robert Henri (Undated)

Ship in the Night James Gale Tyler (1870)

Bouquet in a Theater Box by Renoir (1871)

Berthe Morisot with a Fan by Édouard Manet (1872)

La Vierge D’aurore by Odilon Redon (1890) credit to @vampirepoem on twt

Still Life with Blue Vase and Mushrooms by Otto Sholderer (1891)

After the Bath: Woman Drying her Hair by Edgar Degas (1898)

Bust of a Woman with Her Left Hand on Her

Chin by Edgar Degas (1898) credit to @terrifique

Backstage at the Opera by Jean Beraud (1889)

Roman Bacchanal by Vasily Alexandrovich Kotarbiński (1898)

Dancers by Edgar Degas (1899)

Calling the Hounds Out of Cover by Haywood Hardy (1906)

Dolls by Witold Wojtkiewicz (1906) credit to @gyzeppelis on twt

Forty-two Kids by George Bellows (1907)

The Artist's Sister Melanie by Egon Schiele (1908)

Paddy Flannigan by George Bellows (1908)

Stag at Sharkey’s by George Bellows (1909)

The Lone Tenement by George Bellows (1909)

Ode to Flower After Anacreon by Auguste Renoir (1909) credit to @iwtvasart on twt

New York by George Bellows (1911)

Young Man kneeling before God the Father

Egon Schiele (1909)

Kneeling Girl with Spanish Skirt by Egon Schiele (1911)

Portrait of Erich Lederer by Egon Schiele (1912)

Krumau on the Molde by Egon Schiele (1912)

Weeping Nude by Edvard Munch (1913)

The Cliff Dwellers by George Bellows (1913)

Church in Stein on the Danube by Egon Schiele (1913)

Self Portrait in a Jerkin by Egon Schiele (1914)

The Kitten's Art Lesson by Henriette Ronner Knip credit to @terrifique

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion by Francis Bacon (1944)

New York by Vivian Maier (1953)

Self Portrait by Vivian Maier (Undated)

Self Portrait by Vivian Maier (1954)

Slave Auction by Jean-Michelle Basquiat (1982)

(Untitled) photo of St. Paul Loading Docks by Bradley Olson (2015)

Transformation by Ron Bechet (2021)

(Untitled) sculpture in the shape of vines by Sadie Sheldon

(Untitled) Ceramic Totems by Julie Silvers (Undated)

Mother Daughter by Rahmon Oluganna

Twins I by Raymon Oluganna

@iwtvfanevents made a post of unidentified works here.

Works IWTV may be in conversation with (This is the most open to criticism and additions)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, uncensored (There are two very different versions of this which exist today, as Harvard Press republished the unedited original with permission from the Wilde family.)

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Warsan Shire for Beyoncé’s Lemonade

Faust: A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

La Morte Amoreuse by Theophile Gautier

Carmilla by Sheridan LeFanu

Maurice by E.M. Forster

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (credit to @johnlockdynamic )

1984 by George Orwell (credit to @savage-garden-nights for picking this up)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

Gone With the Wind film (1939)

Hannibal (2013)

Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle Suzanne de Villenueve

Music used in Season 1 collected by @greedandenby here

*if collected or in translation most of the best editions today would not have been available to the characters pre-1940. It’s possible Louis is meant to have read them in their original French in some cases, but it would provide for a different experience. Lydia Davis’ Madame Bovary, for example, attempts to replicate this.

** I've tagged and linked relevant excerpts under quote series as I've been working my way through the list.

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for the fictional character -> disney character meme: David Rossi, Nate Kulina, Derek Morgan?

Dave is Colonel from 101 Dalmatians

Nate is Mirabel from Encanto

Derek is Tennessee O'Neal from The Country Bears

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Johnny O'Neal - Peg Leg Baby (1953 / Unreleased) Johnny O'Neal Johnson from: "Memphis Blues: Unissued Titles from the 1950's"           (1985 Compilation)

Personnel: Johnny O'Neal: Vocals Ike Turner: Guitar Bonnie Turner: Piano James Wheeler: Saxophone Thomas Reed: Saxophone Jesse Knight: Bass Guitar Willie Sims: Drums

Produced and Engineered by Sam Phillips

Recorded: @ The Sun Recording Studio on August 2, 1953 in Memphis, Tennessee USA

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Hi it's been awhile... I want to tell you a story about a little girl and Batman. Growing up even as far back as I can remember I have always been a Batman fan. My mom's best friend had two sons so I was never lacking in comic books and my parents took me to see the first movie (Michael Keaton) in the theater. My dad introduced me to Adam West and he will always be my favorite. But as I grew up I learned that boys didn't like it when girls liked things they considered "theirs." So when I tried to play with the boys in my class I was always relegated to lying in the middle of the sandbox waiting to be rescued something one of my exes would say led to an "April O'Neal Complex" because all I wanted was to be Donatello but I was a girl so that notion was nixed quickly. But then when I was in 6th grade came Batman Forever and with it came the soundtrack and that's where I discovered U2 and Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me became my song. Now the boys still had me on damsel in distress duty and they would try to reduce my love for Batman to the fact that I thought Val Kilmer was hot (and he definitely was) but that song! I could listen to it and instantly feel BADASS. It was loud and epic in a way I'd never heard before. It made me feel like I was the hero even in 6th grade. And while I was growing up I may have put U2 aside to listen to the Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls I could always come back to them when I needed to summon the courage to do something big; audition for a play, get ready for swim meet or a tennis match, just deal with life as a middle school kid. When I got to high school U2 opened the door to Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and a whole new side of rock music that I didn't really know about but desperately wanted to learn. The summer before junior year I moved from my hometown in Florida to East Tennessee and with that came new challenges but I had U2 there with me. I still had to hide my proclivity for the geekier interests, pretending that I didn't like the Batman charm my aunt got me for my charm bracelet because "I haven't liked Batman since like 6th grade so uncool." My boyfriend junior year didn't like it when I tried to show an interest in his comic books because I should be reading Cosmo or whatever. I did read Cosmo but that's beside the point. My boyfriend senior year would encourage me to get back to my geek girl roots but more on his terms. But he gave me one of the best gifts; it was kind of off hand and I wish I still had it but he gave me Achtung Baby by U2. He was so casual about it "I was going through my CDs and found this if you want it you can have it," and just handed it to me. Of course I was ecstatic and I started to feel like myself again the hero of my own story. When I got my first job I started buying the older albums like War, Joshua Tree, and Boy and I really started listening to them... I mean really listening and a fire was lit inside me. A fire that wanted to fight for social justice and change. Just listen to Sunday Bloody Sunday or Pride in the Name of Love and I dare you not to get amped up to protest anything even if it's just doing the dishes. My sister got me How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb for Christmas the year it came out and I immediately ran upstairs to listen to it from beginning to end and while Vertigo put me back in that Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me headspace it was Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own that reduced me to tears. What if I couldn't make it on my own? I was single at the time and I was still at that age where a breakup and the subsequent loneliness felt permanent. And while there have been many inconsistencies in my life (99.99% were self inflicted) there have been a few constants aside from my family who love me at my worst I've always had U2 and Batman.

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I Hope You Had the Time of your Life, Kade Martin

Kade Martin, 25, of Chattanooga, Tennessee died Sunday, November 22, 2020 in Woodstock, GA tragically taken by an impaired driver.

Kade was born on April 23, 1995, in Chattanooga to Lt. Gary R. and Lisa (McDowell) Martin.

They graduated from East Hamilton High School. Kade graduated with honors from Chattanooga State Community College with an Associate’s Degree in Journalism. 

They were a Community Manager for High Road Craft Ice Cream, where they even had a hand in creating a signature flavor for GRiZ - DJ, songwriter, and electronic producer. 

Kade’s creativity, love of live music, and talent for writing and photography made them an asset to ConcertHopper.com. For the website, Kade interviewed artists such as Cherub and Maddy O'Neal, and covered music festivals and concerts such as Suwannee Hulaween. Kade also combined their love of food and music festivals to create and manage ConcertHopper.com’s Bars & Bites column.

ConcertHopper.com will be setting up a memorial Music Festival/Music Camp Scholarship in Kade’s honor. With this scholarship they hope to give someone the opportunity to experience the joy and community that Kade felt while enjoying music. The fundraising and application process will begin early in 2021.

Kade was an active supporter of and participant in the arts, especially photography. Kade was a gifted guitarist. They were plucked from the crowd two different times while seeing their favorite band, Green Day in concert.The second time they took the stage, they actually played guitar with Green Day!

They enjoyed cooking and sharing food with others. They also enjoyed hiking, camping and kayaking.

Kade was the loudest cheerleader for everyone lucky enough to call them a friend. Kade carried the spirit of Camp Kulabunga with them everywhere after attending in 2019. Camp Kulabunga is focused on creating a safe space of radical inclusion, community, self-empowerment, and wellness.

They are survived by their parents, Lt. Gary R. and Lisa Martin; grandparents, Judy and Melvin McDowell of Chattanooga, and Frances Jenkins of Chattanooga; aunts, Karen McDowell of Ooltewah, Karen (Glenn) Gass of Chattanooga, and Debra (Lonnie) Essex of Virginia; an uncle, Lt. Brian McDowell of Chattanooga; and her cousins, Drew, Ashlyn, and Abbey McDowell, Nicholas Gass, and Cassie Essex.

They also leave behind their best friend, Austin Adderholt, two cats, Fink and Nala, and a chosen family of Camp Kulabunga campers, concert hoppers, and artists all over the country.

Kade is preceded in death by their great-grandparents, Cynthia Tripp, James Monroe Tripp, and Willie McVeigh; and their grandfather, Ray Jenkins.

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Cleavant Derricks

Cleavant Derricks Jr. (born May 15, 1953) is an American actor and Tony Award winning singer-songwriter, who is best known for his role of Rembrandt Brown on Sliders.

Biography

Derricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee to a pianist mother Cecile G. and Baptist preacher/composer Cleavant Derricks Sr., famous for his popular gospel music hymn Just a Little Talk with Jesus. His twin brother is actor and musician Clinton Derricks-Carroll. Derricks began his career as a Nashville gospel songwriter. With his father, he wrote the gospel album Satisfaction Guaranteed. He was the musical director and composer for the musical When Hell Freezes Over I'll Skate.

Derricks went to New York City to study acting with Vinnette Carroll at the Urban Arts Theatre. He received rave reviews for his performance in his Broadway shows, including But Never Jam Today. He also won a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for creating the role of James "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls. Off-Broadway he was in the William Finn musical Romance in Hard Times in 1989. He also starred in the Broadway musical Brooklyn as the Streetsinger.

Soon afterwards, Derricks appeared in films such as Moscow on the Hudson, Neil Simon's The Slugger's Wife and recently, Wes Craven's Carnival of Souls. He was a series regular on the short-lived television series Thea with Thea Vidale and Brandy, and Good Sports with Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal. His role as Rembrandt Brown on Sliders with Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd and John Rhys-Davies was the only Sliders character to appear throughout the entire series. In addition, Derricks has had numerous guest-starring roles in series such as Roseanne, A Different World, Miami Vice, Spenser: For Hire, Charmed and many others.

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Some state leaders are pushing for investigation into social media platforms, saying they harm teen mental health

Lawmakers said they were worried social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok are unhealthy for kids.

Instagram recently added parental control options after the app came under fire for possibly posing a danger to the mental health of young users. New parental controls are being rolled out, meant to make the platform safer for children under 16 years old.

They include choosing how long a child can spend on Instagram and parental notifications for when a child reports another user on the app.

But Instagram isn't alone in the spotlight. Several other social media platforms are under the microscope.

Tennessee is among states launching a probe into TikTok's effect on minors' mental health. The investigation was launched in March by a group of Attorneys General from states including California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Vermont.

In November, a former employee said Instagram's parent company did not protect its users, even after an internal investigation showed the harm it can have on a teen's mental health.

Some Knoxville moms said they agreed there should be more parental control on social media platforms. Jessica Seeber said, among other topics,that she's concerned about cyberbullying, the impact social media can have on body image and self-esteem.

"Kids need to be monitored on the internet," Seeber said. "I want my girls to be confident in themselves,"

Celena O'Neal, a social worker for Oneida Schools, said she's seen the harmful effects of social media firsthand.

"A lot of students compare their lives to others and that often results in self-esteem issues,” she said. "There's a lot more things on there now than there were when we were young."

The school is promoting early intervention, she said.

"A full-time therapist for Mountain People is on staff here at the school. We have the STEM Project that comes in and talks to the students regularly," O'Neal said, and all students also have access to a social-emotional learning program that teaches students how to develop coping skills.

Lots of parents are in favor of parental controls on social media platforms and some Tennessee lawmakers said he worries about the impact of social media, particularly TikTok.

“I’m concerned about the potential long-term effects TikTok could have on a young person’s ability to concentrate and to stay focused for a longer period of time. This concern stems from the nature of its brief videos and the ability for a user to quickly scroll through various posts. I look forward to working with my colleagues in the General Assembly to address any issues that may be revealed as a result of this investigation," State Rep. Chris Hurt said to WBIR in a statement.

State Rep. Dennis Powers also said he thinks there needs to be a change to the way social media is filtered.

"TikTok has been one of the worst offenders, I believe. I've seen so many things on there that we encourage and we try to keep our little ones from ever watching," Powers said.

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Spring 2018 Dean’s List

NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State University announced the names of 1,087 students named to the Dean’s List for the Spring 2018 semester.  Students on the Dean’s List maintained a 3.5-3.99 grade point average. Students, listed by hometown, are as follows.

 Abbeville -- MaKayla Lewis;

Albany -- Kaitlyn Kinchen;

Alexandria -- Chris Vincent Advincula, Evelyn Allen-Lewis, Lili Bedoya, Heather Bergeron, Tianna Bowens, Lydia Branch, Morgan Bryant, Thomas Crowe, Noel Cusick, Angela Dunn, Aubrey Farque, Claudia Gauthier, Ian Grant, Monnie Guillory, Tameka Hammonds, Tyraneisha Hayward, Roderick Henry, Martha Hopewell, Jaliyah Jasper, Whitney Joffrion, Jordan Johnson, Kelli Leone, Hunter Lewis, Jimmie Magee, Aaron Martin, Ceerah McNeal, Jennifer Miranda, Kylah Porter, Sailor Reed, Savannah Sices, Shacora Simpson, Christopher Warren, Shanequa Watkins, Amber Williams Taylor;

Anacoco -- Lindsey Alligood, Kinsley Blakeway, Kenneth Cochran, Alan Cosio, Nicole Fitzgerald, Rachel Fournier, Christopher Guy, Elizabeth Guy, Karlee Laurence, Brittany Lewis, Mahala Lewis, Caitlin McKee, Kayli O’Toole, Clarissa Owens, Katie Perkins, Bret Phillips, Amanda Shores, Cheyenne Taylor;

Anchorage, Alaska -- Sydney Bulot;

Angola -- Ursula Poarch;

Arlington, Texas -- Mariah Denson;

Arnaudville -- Zachary Leboeuf;

Ashland -- Victoria Roderick;

Atlanta -- Peyton Howell, Morgan Williams;

Atlanta, Texas -- Shannon Jones;

Aurora, Colorado -- William Mccullough;

Austin, Texas -- Ysmina Smith;

Avondale -- Brian Videau;

Baker -- Devante George;

Baldwin -- Lakesha Colar, Gerianna Lyons;

Ball -- Stephen Carpenter, Nickolas Juneau, Lauren Nugent, Vanessa Toney, Megan Wakefield, Alice Wilson;

Barksdale AFB -- Elysia Lanier, Tova Volcheck;

Barlanquillo Atlantico, Columbia -- Camilo Simancas Morelo;

Baton Rouge -- Emmanuel Dunn, Lydell Emerson, Madison Fry, Julian Guerrero Acevedo, Maisyn Guillory, John Guillot, Kelly Guillot, Madison Harris, Jessica Joseph, Mckane Kinchen, Henrietta Mercer, Madalyn Mullins, Katie Pham, Colleen Reese, Reagan Smith, Jason Stampley;

Beaumont, Texas -- Dustin Burns;

Belcher -- Sierra Laing;

Belle Chasse -- Natalie Wilson;

Belmont -- Tristan Ponder;

Bentley -- Zachary Doucet;

Benton -- Kelyn Bihm, Christopher Heard, Kara Knippers, Jessica O'Neal, Jadyn Sepulvado, Torea Taylor, Kimberly Umphries;

Bernice -- Brandy Ganter;

Blanco, Texas -- Reagan Rogers;

Bogalusa -- Amanda Crawford;

Boise, Idaho -- Jessica Anderson;

Bossier City -- Alexander Bequette, Kendall Caple, Jael Ahmad, Lauryn Bakalis, Abigail Barkley, Breanna Black, Elizabeth Blair, Brittany Boothe, Steven Braddock, Katie Briggs, Jonathan Castillo, Peyton Davis, Anthonia Dogbey, Madison Edwards, Bailey Freeman, Karli Freeman, Laschae Gadson, Kelsey Gallman, Julie Golden, Mizzani Grigsby, Candace Guillory, Devonte Hall, Oai Lee Huynh, Anton Inyakov, Dejaney Jackson, Nourain Jamhour, Anqumesha Jeter, Shane Kaiser, Tina Kile, Danielle Lombardino, Alexandra Madrid, Samantha Maiette, Caroline McKee,  Amanda Mings, Stacy Moore, Katherine Parson, Kennedy Parson, Brittani Phillips, Kathryn Pierce, Rachael Pierce, Tatyana Porter, Timothy Rice, Jami Rivers, Jasmine Roberson, Kassidy Robideaux, Madison Rowland, Rheagan Rowland, Jeremy Ryals, Dakota Schudalla, Ranya Shihadeh, Hope Spaw, Tabitha Stevenson, Susan Stone, James Taylor,  Jazmine Tom-Jones, Giselle Trejo, Lacey Velasquez, Madalyn Watson, Meagan Willis, Nour Zeidan, Eric Zheng;

Bourg -- Micaiah Richie, Abigail Trahan;

Boyce -- Tiffany Barnhart, Ekaterina Bordelon, Sarah Hill, Sonya Hill, Hannah Miller, Ashley Smith;

Breaux Bridge -- Ashtin Mouton, Tyler Thibodeaux;

Brentwood, Tennessee -- Joe Tappel;

Broken Arrow, Oklahoma -- Madeline Drake;

Bunkie -- Emily Arnaud;

Burleson, Texas -- Eric Neeley;

Campti -- Alisha Bedgood, Paige Cason, Trenton Parker, Ronald Reliford, Madeline Valencia, Rebekah Wiley;

Carencro -- Malik Babin, Chaney Dodge, Destiny Kennerson;

Cartagena, Bolivar -- Carlos Camargo Patron, Maria Carmona-Ruiz, Angela Coneo Valdez, Carlomagno Leon Jimenez, Paula Martinez Marrugo, Nestor Mercado-Garcia, Romulo Osorio Herrera, Ronald Rodriguez Herrera, Valentina Herazo Alvarez, Luis Osorio Betancourt, Juan Paternina Paez, Valeria Perez Espinosa, Alonso Restrepo Cardozo;

Cedar Hill, Texas -- Timmis Bonner;

Chalmette -- Sara Mendoza;

Cheneyville -- Katelyn Baronne;

Chicago, Illinois -- Brandon Hutton;

Choudrant -- Taylor Holley, Mya Melancon;

Clayton -- Glendalyn Boothe, Ruben Smith;

Colfax -- Camren Bell, Michael Dupre, Angela McCann, Lessie Rushing, Elizabeth Slayter, Morgan Vandegevel;

Colorado Springs, Colorado -- Rossana Potempa;

Columbia, South Carolina -- Brittany Bell;

Converse -- Samantha Davis, Ashley Forgues Brock, Hannah Womack;

Costa Mesa, California -- Keith Ford;

Cottonport -- Zachary Gauthier, Justin Tigner;

Coushatta -- Jason Bell, Nick Ezernack, Erikka Johnson, Jamary Jones, Sidney Jones, Aaron Murray, Jacob Shaver, Precious Smith, John Squires, Keyairrowa Thomas, Treasure Wilson, Caroline Wren, Lauren Young, Rena Yount;

Covington -- Justin Brogdon, Rachael Coyne, Margaret Denny, Titus McCann, Andrea Mier, Cathleen Oviedo, Catherine Sadler, Kenneth Sears, Jennifer Vo;

Coyolilla Veracruz, Mexico -- Guadalupe de Jesus Mendez Zaragoza;

Creole -- Brooklyn Frerks;

Crowley -- Kylan Poullard, Desiree Robinson;

Cut Off -- Zachary Breaux;

Cypress, Texas -- Alexis Gomez;

Dayton, Texas -- Jerry Maddox;

DeBerry, Texas -- Sarah Britt;

Deer Park, Texas -- Blake Stephenson;

Denham Springs – Joey Carroll, James Fillingame, Caitlin Griffin, Keisha Johnson, Halle Mahfouz, Amy Thomas, Jenson Wall, Emily Williams;

DeQuincy -- Austin Nichols;

DeRidder -- Dawanna Burgess, Maygin Chesson, Alphonse Engram, John Ham, Michael Keeper, Kayla Kowalski, Reagan Laird, Brittney March, Shayla Miller, Zachary Pursley;

Derry -- Hannah Antee;

Desoto, Texas -- Nicholas Forde;

Destrehan – Patrick Juneau;

Deville -- Hailey Bolton, Savannah Carter, Hailie Coutee, Kinley Deville, Candice Dryden, Hannah Lewis, Caleb Rhodes, Sydney Ryder;

Dike, Texas -- Brynn Offutt;

Dodson -- Courtney Booker, Kierstyn Cyrus, Haley McClendon;

Doyline -- Lucas Darbonne, Zeke Wallace;

Dry Prong -- Megan Alwell, DeAnna Bartlett, Jacob Boydstun, Ashley Martin, Judith Mixon;

Dubberly -- Alex Robles;

East Windsor, New Jersey – Andreia Martins;

Edmond, Oklahoma -- Ashley Medawattage, Amanda Stokes;

El Paso, Texas -- Christopher Barron;

Elizabeth -- Kolby Friday, Clyde Hurst;

Elmer -- Tula Newman;

Eros -- Alecia Smith;

Eunice -- Jeremy Ortego;

Ferriday -- Dalenesha Wimley;

Flatwoods -- Taylor Nichols;

Florien -- Whitney Byles, Travis Cook, Emma Herrington, Jackson Kleven, Ashton Remedies, Megan Wagley, Shari Wilson;

Flower Mound, Texas -- Cody McGee;

Folsom -- Sarah Moore;

Forest Hill -- Brett Atkinson, Anna Doherty, Rafael Sierra, Charli Stanley, Nancy Vargas, Leslie Winners;

Fort Lauderdale -- Abigail Pangallo;

Fort Polk -- Brittany Chadwick, Molly Fields, Clarrissa Lancour, Blaise Nkengafac, Lindsay Romero, Shiela May Tabonares, Jimma Tear, Nohora Valencia Camacho, Leslie Whitsett;

Fort Worth, Texas -- Angelica Valdez;

Fouke, Arkansas -- Holly Tweedy;

FPO, AP -- Amber Travis;

Franklin -- Shelley Bell, Abriana Lanceslin;

Franklinton -- Brian Geraghty, Bethany McGinnis;

Freeland, Washington -- Paul Aune;

Frierson – Mason Barnes, Shelby Callens, Treanna Howard, Shawna Longoria, Clinton Oliver, John Rachal;

Frisco, Texas -- Adam Trupp;

Garland, Texas -- Joseph Goodson, Alec Horton, Nia Randall;

Geismar -- Emilee Hawkins;

Georgetown, Texas -- Kyle Bryant;

Glenmora -- Brooks Davis, Faith Lawrence;

Gloster -- Paris Gillum;

Goldonna -- Alexander Guillory, Brandon Smith;

Gonzales, Texas -- Ivan Longoria;

Gorman, Texas -- Kourtney Seaton;

Gorum -- Josephine White;

Grand Cane -- Nathan Graham, Rachel Kinman, Jaylen Mcintyre;

Grand Isle -- Abigail Frazier,

Grand Prairie, Texas -- Stephen Garrett;

Grant -- Regina Johnson;

Gray -- Cassie Becnel;

Greenwell Springs -- Katherine Bryant, Madison Shade, Jamie Brooks;

Greenwood -- Ragan Aple, Malory Jeter, Char'Tarian Wilson;

Gretna -- Donald Wagner;

Gun Barrel City, Texas -- Dustin Huffman;

Hallandale Beach, Florida -- Ralph Boereau;

Hallsville, Texas -- Emma Hawthorne;

Hamtramck, Michigan -- Mary Cotter;

Harlingen, Texas -- Frances Knight;

Harvey -- Tajalai Evans;

Hattiesburg, Mississippi -- Mary Mitchell;

Haughton – Benny Broadway, Kayla Bull, Brittony Cole, Randi Corley, Bethanie Couch, Brandon Curry, Ashley Hamil, Tyler Holdsworth, Sydney MacFarlane, Tonya Morgan, Brooke Payton, Jamie Phillips, Makenzie Rains, Johnathan Schlicher, Logan Turner, Kaili Williams, Brigette Wilson, Chase Woltz;

Haynesville -- Eriel Fields;

Hempstead, Texas -- Joshua Roberts;

Henderson, Texas -- Andrew Blackmon, Asha Cormier;

Hermon, Maine -- Allessa Ingraham-Albert;

Hessmer -- Dana Lala, Molli Lamartiniere;

Hineston -- Richard Clark, Angela Merchant, Madison Morrison, April Nornholm;

Homer -- Madison Cain, Francene Ferguson;

Honolulu, Hawaii -- Melissa Baker;

Hornbeck -- Ronald Guess, Jerry Hughes Jr, Jaclyn Smith;

Hosston -- Alaysia Jaynes;

Houma -- Rhiannon Dean, Billy Gorr, Zoe Hebert, Corinne Paris, Sherrie Pena;

Houston, Texas -- Brittany Davis, Stephanie Hall, Natashia Jackson, Alyssa Jacobs, Kenneth Sheldon, Kendall Westfall, Madilyn Wood;

Hutchinson, Kansas -- Cassandra Childress;

Hutto -- Tommi Long;

Independence -- Sabrina Cook;

Iowa -- Nicholas Fisher, Matthew Phillips, Marvette Williams;

Jeanerette -- Selene Allain-Kovacs, Brandy Jackson;

Jefferson -- Matthew Broekman, Jaleia Parker, Codi Vernace, Amanda Wilburn;

Jena -- William Tradewell;

Jennings -- Emily Benoit, Destany Brown, Janee Charles, Rachel Edwards, Kelsey Fitzgerald, Lindsay Orgeron, Lydia Williams,

Jonesboro -- Dearo Nash;

Jonesville -- Rachel Eichmann, Shana Jefferson, Kayla Robertson, Memory Shriner;

Kaplan -- Gabriel LeMoine;

Katy, Texas -- Brittany Cecil, Clayton Holgorsen;

Keithville -- Eleanor Coleman, Erin McDonnell, Hannah Mikovich, Allie Neill, Cora Procell, Erica Sanders, Alexandra West, Deja White;

Kenner -- Christina Arrechavala, Willie Soniat, Kailyn Verdin;

Kentwood -- Iris Travis;

Kerens, Texas -- Brandon Brumbelow, Eric Guerra;

Kilgore, Texas -- Hannah Gribble;

Kinder -- Lorin All;

Kingwood, Texas -- Eric Piccione;

Klamath Fall, Oregon -- Megan Baker;

Lacey Washington -- Shana Sweeney;

Lafayette -- Samantha Donlon, Ashley Fontenot, Ashley Guidry, Bryce Hernandez, Emilee Leger, Nicole Neveu, Christina Poole, Hunter Robicheaux, Caleb Starks, Julia Towry, China Young;

Lake Providence -- Jayadra Campbell, Tamika Turner;

Lake Arthur -- Nicole Andrews, Hannah Worley;

Lake Charles -- Andrew Darbonne, Kennedy Fontenot, Marsha Heap, Karley Hebert;

LaPlace -- Jalen Haydel, Jacob St. Pierre, Doria Wilson;

Las Vegas, Nevada -- April Ficarrotta;

Lawtell -- Karoline Guidry, Olivia Guidry;

League City, Texas -- Emily Ornelas, Hunter Wamack, Christopher Zirkle;

Lecompte -- Allison Williams;

Leesville -- Junette Cutshaw, Skyler Abrams, Lyric Bacote, Marilyn Brooks, Kaylee Busby, Victoria Butler, Anthony Cantrell, Michael Carradine, Charlotte Cassin, Raven Collins, Haleigh Edinger, Brittany Edwards, Tyana Ellis, Caryllann Fermato, Ashley French, Brittany French, Jessica Gray, Gabriella Haymon, Kimberly Henley, Jessica Herring, Heather Hickman, Caitlan James, Zachary Keeton, Jessica Gray, Karl Marzahl, Kylie McAllister, Kelsea Mckinney, Emily Moore, Kaitlyn Pajinag, Montana Phillips, Charlotte Rivara, Chloe Rouleau, David Santos,  Hannah Scott, Heather Snell, Peggy Stanley, Collin Strickland, Haley Tucker, Matthew Ward, Jessica Taylor;

Lena -- Juan Gonzalez;

Lewisville, Texas -- Venus Par;

Little Elm, Texs -- Jasmine Ealy, Daniel Larin;

Little Rock, Arkansas – Tara Lane;

Livonia -- Ryann Bizette;

Logansport -- Amanda Hill, Ashley Wheless;

 Longview, Texas -- Gustavo Corrales, Hannah Dunn, Robdrick Halton, Joni Overman;

Julie Rawls;

Longville -- Johanna Braden;

Lonoke, Arkansas -- Rachel Terry;

Loranger -- Cambree Bailey, Laurie Lassalle;

Louisville, Mississippi -- Zachary Wilson;

Luling --- Nathan Roth;

Lumberton, Texas -- Joshua Terry;

Madisonville -- Alyce Lis, Jensen Volz;

Mandeville -- Evan Guillory, Guy Lecompte, Connor Loar, Carrie Maxwell, Blake Naquin, Prinice Neyland, Shannon Roussell, Sheridan Smith;

Mangham -- Rebekah Aultman;

Manito, Illinois -- Sarah Picken;

Mansfield -- Nicolette Hogan, Ashley Shelton, Brooke Smith;

Mansura -- Deaisha Johnson, Jonah Johnson, Katherin Lemoine, Distiny Thompson;

Many -- Rachel Bensinger, David Bourgeois, Toby Bruce, Jocelyn Cannon, Tyler Colston, Skyler Ezernack, Tiarra Frazier, Alison Garcia, Brittney Garcie, Savannah Garcie, Sheridan Gowen, Emmy Hinds, Emily Holcomb, Jenifer Meadows, Matthew Peace, Lincoln Pearce, Jonathan Pilcher, Bailey Walker;  

Maringouin -- Laura Scronce, Jalacia Toussant;

Marksville -- Andre Boyer, Erica Ducote, Andria Lachney, Chaterrika Lavalais, Zachary Moreau, Madeleine Morrow, Tanner Nugent;

Marrero -- Lorn Bourgeois, Jade Duthu, Luis Escobar, Addison Hinson;

Marshall, Texas -- Tiffany Cortes, Laurann Graham, Tristian Zamora;

Marthaville -- Dillon Hagan, Mallory Powell, Madeline Procell, Daniel Rachal-Claspill;

Masura -- Kate Losavio;

Maurice -- Jenna-Clair Courville, Nicole Levine;

Merryville -- Kalan Townsley;

Metairie -- Kathryn Bancroft, Cameron Duhe, Mary Gaffney, Ellie Mandel, Madysen Norra;

Midland, Texas -- Savannah Cantwell;

Minden -- Kadeem Bailey, Aubry Dennis, Erin Dotson, Abby Greene, Hutton Leppert, Madison Tanner, Kayla Theus, Heather White;

Mira -- Taylor Andrews;

Missouri City, Texas -- Cayla Jones;

Monroe -- Demonta Brown, Dataya Cummings, Deshon Hayes, Ashley Jackson Franklin, Tatianna Randle;

Montgomery --Laryn Graves, Teri Ogorek, Stephanie Sanders;

Mooringsport -- Jacklyn Dublin;

Mora -- Gracy Rowell;

Morgan City -- Norris Duthu;

Morrow -- Quaniqua Joseph;

Moscow, Russia -- Polina Ivanova,

Mt. Hermon -- Warren McFarlain;

Murrieta, California -- LaQuitta Wilkins;

Natchez -- Victoria Bradford, Courtney Sarpy;

Natchitoches -- Alissa Addison, James Armstrong, Cass Arnold, Adam Barnes, Behrend Behrendsen, Lauren Bennett, Joshua Bolton, Kayla Bordelon, Megan Bouchie, Taylor Burch, Deasia Burrell, Ebone Burton, John Byone, Ana Cardaba Garcia, Valerie Chadick, Hannah Chelette, Laura Coffey, Donna Cooper, Whitney Crooks, Dalton Dark, Cieara Davis, Sean Day, Jacob Ellis, Fred Fontenot, Daniela Forero Salcedo, Ashley Fortenberry, Mark Gallien, Luis Gallo Quintero, Taylor Garland, Christopher Gistarb, Samuel Greene, Pamela Gross, Hannah Haigh, Michaela Haigh, Jorgia Hamel, Jett Hayes, Emily Heard, Marcie Jenkins, Regina Johnson, Zachary Johnson, Jeremy Jones, Brian Jordan, Daniel Killian, Michael Kingsley, Abagael Kinney, Lyndon Knueppel, Jiyoon Lee, Robert Lee, John Lindsey, Luke Lucky, Kary-Katharine McCormick, Amber Minor, Shanteria Montgomery, Destiny Moody, Sarah Moody, Brooklyn Noe, Karmen O' Connor, Joseph Parrie, Kevin Price, LaKendria Remo, Antavious Roberson, Cayla Roberts, Tyler Roberts, Aaron Rogers, William Rogers, Kayla Roquemore, Dante Samuel, Spencer Sepulvado,  Anna Sibley, Josie Stamey, Scott Stewart, Harrison Thomas, Margaret Thompson, Victoria Thompson, Kaleb Usleton, Kristan Valdez, Ricardo Ventura, Ryan Wade, Kathryn White, Sarah Kay, Nicholas Wiggins;

New Iberia -- Tara Bonvillain, Bryson Bourque, Destinee Leger, Natalie Ortega, Madison Romero, Alexis Trosclair;

New Llano -Kendra Jones, Reaz Khan, Dennis Stein;

New Orleans -- Rayna Brantley, Beau Cook, Marquise Davis, Amy Favalora, Jaime Hendrickson, Karina Santiago, Jeffrey Swift;

Newman, Georgia -- Samantha Sims;

Norcross, Georiga -- Kailee Striplin;

Norwood -- Ty'Dashia McElwee;

Oakdale – Alyssa Cole, Kirstin Richard;

Oberlin -- Jonathon Villareal;

Opelousas -- Kierra Doucet, Diamond Leblanc, Amy Levier;

Pacifica, California -- Nicholas Pierotti;

Paris, Texas -- Emily Essary, Zachary Hevron, Cody Vorwerk, Jordan Whatley;

Pattison, Texas -- Morgan Hildebrand;

Pelican -- Mary Myers;

Pereira Risaralda, Columbia -- Mariana Ospina Rivas;

Pineville -- Connor Littleton, Aimee Ashworth, Christian Boudreaux, Raegan Brocato, Samantha Browning, Kaitlyn Burns, Taylor Campbell, Erika Carter, Luke Conway, Caitlin Crawford, Glory Deaton, Cory Franklin, Hannah Gaspard, Brooke Gongre, Leia Graham, Megan Gypin, Katelyn Hebert, Kaylin Jameson, Jacqueline Johnson, Alissa Joseph, Jessica King, Landon King, Carlee Lake, Brooke Leger, Jeffery Lepage, Ashlee Mitchell, Austin Nelson, Michalene Perry, Cinnamon Player, Wendi Powell, Brittany Shackleford, Odie Trusty, Wesley Williams, Alexis Williamson, Alan Winegeart, Jewel Woods, Madeline Wright;

Pitkin -- Jessica Jones;

Plain Dealing -- Hunter Horton;

Plaquemine -- Kameron Landry, Ma Kayla Washington;

Plum City, Wisconsin -- Brittany Reiter-Theeuwen;

Pollock -- Tanner Brazil, William Hardy;

Port Barre -- Olivia Lanclos, Danielle Schexnayder;

Prairieville -- Lauren Breaux, Joanna Bunnell, Claire Credeur, Andrea Gathercole, Jakalyn Hills, Bailey Mohler, Kyle Munson, Payton Stafford, Brooke Tompkins, Kaylon Wood;

Pride -- Leann Wills;

Princeton -- Ariell Shield;

Raceland -- Emily Adams, DQuincy McGuire;

Raeford, North Carolina -- Lauren Reilly;

Raleigh, North Carolina -- Aleida Alfonso;

Rayne -- Cameron Desselle;

Rayville -- Emily Rawls, Jennifer Rogers, Mary Rogers, Leslie Sharbono;

Reserve -- Ranata Coxie;

Rhinehart -- Bethany Russell;

Richardson, Texas -- Erin Wrozek;

Richmond, Texas -- Sidney Harris;

Ridgeland, Mississippi -- Jacqueline Fairley-Taylor;

Ringgold -- Alora Bryant, Abram Cook;

River Ridge -- Taylor Young;

Robeline -- Amy Bass, Hunter Dubois, Keira Huff, Bergen Oge, Laura Olguin, Megan Palmer, Rebecca Sparish, Christopher Taylor;

Rogers, Arkansas -- Taylor Bush;

Roseland -- Erin Verberne;

Rosepine -- Emily Camacho;

Rosharon, Texas -- Whitney Washington;

Rowlett, Texas --Daniel Miner;

Ruston -- Irene Hild, Qay'Shon Thurman, Jena Warren;

Saint Francisville – Claire Leming, Kathleen Morse, Katherine Noble, Hannah Prewitt;

Saint Gabriel -- Jainakee Cross;

Saint Ignace, Michigan -- Emilee Keuten;

Saint Martinville -- Blake Blanchard;

San Pedro Sula, Cortes, Honduras -- Jonathan Andino Madrid, Vilma Castro Lopez, Cesia Corrales;

Santa Fe, Texas -- Micaela Bouvier;

Saratoga, Arkansas -- Christie Sain;

Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada -- Loren MacLennan;

Scott -- Tayla Soileau;

Scottsboro, Alabama -- Jessica Provenza;

Scurry, Texas -- Rebecca Blackshear;

Shreveport -- Foster Adams, Phillip Adams, Ashlee Arkansas, Chris Bankson, Angelica Bartlett, Austin Beene, Azhani Bennett, Jessica Bollingham, Hannah Bolton, Alyssa Bonacci, JiKeeriya-Jontay Bowden, Rakeisha Brown, Amanda Charles, Brandon Cockerham, Caitlin Coker, Elizabeth Cook, Colby Cranford, Naterria Davis, Emily Dean, Courtney Dehart, Kimberly Dennis, Kristina Doyal, Jada Dudley, Shalanda Duncan, Hannah Ellis, Reagan Escude, Ronald Evans, Candice Faith, Amye Flair, Sierra Foster, Sterlin, Samantha Freeman, Jamie French, Zachary Fussell, JaSae Gatlin, Rayvin Gaudet, Michael Ghattas, Destinee Green, Lashonda Hall, Madison Harper, Brea Housley, Melinda Hunt, April Hunter, Alyecia Ivory Stills, Ronesha Johnson, Randall Johnston, Lajarious Jones, Demariae Jordan, Molly Kelly, Emalee Kennon, Kaitlyn Knighton, Lakenya Lafitte, Katie Layfield, Hannah Lee, Jay Lester, Brandon Lewis-Graham, William Mahoney, Alaina McMillian, Destiny Mitchell, Damitron Moore, Latravia Mosley, Aaron Navarre,  Maria Ogletree, Haley Peace, Allison Pearah, TreSor Pennington, Jared Perkins, Hayden Pilcher, Laura Pritchard, Lindsey Ray, Patricia Reed, Harrison Reeves, Kendall Reeves, Keyonna Roberson, Ansley Rosett, Caleb Rounsavall, Amanda Rushing, Mallori Sanders, Elizabeth Scott, Lawson Scott, Catherine Shaw, Kathryn Shrader, Mary Sibley, Jackiesha Simmons,  John Slocum, Shelby Sowers, Christa Sprawls, Angel Stewart, Rashima Stewart, Somer Stratton, Amanda Strother, Khalil Sumlin, Destini Sweet, Joyce Taylor, Breyonna Thompson, Albert Tuiel, Kayla Waller, Ilyanna Warlen, Aaliyah Watkins, Dillion Wilkerson, Donald Williams, JeVannica Williams, Suzanne Williams, Emily Wingrove, Morgan Woodall,  Randy Woodle;

Sibley -- Julianna Schober;

Sierner -- Emily George;

Sieper -- Whitney Browning;

Sikes -- Dylan Kelly, Tonya LeBaron;

Simmesport -- Kimani Batiste, Bailie Marsh, Taylor Myers;

Slaughter -- Ciara Gibbs;

Slidell -- Katie Buttner, Robert Carter, William Jensen, John Norvel, Theresa Sharp, Sophia Toranto, Maci Walgamotte, Olivia Warren;

Spring, Texas -- Victoria Harris, Elyssa Hernandez;

Starks -- Triston Bussell,

Stockbridge, Georgia -- Rachel Jeane;

Stonewall -- Hailey Compton, Madison Parker, Chassidy Sutton;

Sugarland, Texas -- Jake Gore;

Sulphur -- Kobe Ardoin, Derek Henry, Bralyn James, Rylie Mcfarlain;

Summerfield, South Carolina -- Alexandria Hughes;

Talihina, Oklahoma -- Heidi Couch;

Texarkana, Texas -- Cody Hambly, Daphne Hammett;

The Woodlands, Texas -- Robyn Beatty, Tyler Rapp;

Thibodaux -- Tierra Johnson;

Tioga -- Hannah Pusateri;

Tomball, Texas -- Kylie Spencer;

Toms River, New Jersey -- Jacqueline Manza;

Trout -- Makayla King, Kalee Mcguffee, Jacie Paul;

Turkey Creek -- Kelsie King;

Tyler, Texas -- De'Shalyn Jones;

Vacherie -- Tameeka Ross;

Vidalia -- Kayla Banks, Charles Johnson;

Vierzon -- Lena Billault;

Ville Platte -- Gabrielle Chapman, Joseph Evans, Hannah Gallow;

Vinton -- Shae Cramer;

Vinton, Texas -- Alexis Frescas;

Virginia Beach, Texas -- Danielle Hill;

Walker -- David Kolb;

Washington -- Halie Briley;

Welsh -- Jordan Durio, Lauren LeDoux;

West Monroe -- Charles Allen, Abigail Beck, Laura Lovell;

Westlake -- Baleigh Derouen,

Wills Point, Texas -- Rebekah Clark;

Winnfield -- Jermesia Anderson, Taylor Burnett, Simona Curry, Trenton Dill, Rhonda Duff, Kerry Fitzgerald, Kara Grantadams, Ieishlia Lynch, Brittany Parker, Katreiona Starks, Caitlin Womack, Caroline Womack, Katy Zimmerman;

Winnsboro -- Hunter Cooper, Darrel Doyle, A'Lexus Johnson;

Woodville -- Tiera Trask;

Woodworth -- Taylor Henry;

Yaroslavl, Russia -- Polina Mutel;

Youngsville -- Randall Blair, Hannah Broussard, Jessica Gilmore, Alexys Hebert, Brian Horton, Devyn Shores;

 Zachary -- Carmeka Cooper, Neil Ahldwin;

 Zwolle -- Holly Laroux, Courtney McDaniel, Konner Parrie, Holden Rivers;

Rebecca Reine.

[hunter-husky]

The bands back together

Head empty only country bears

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

The Night of the Iguana (1964) was based on Tennessee Williams' play.  The Broadway production debuted on Dec 28, 1961 and ran for 316 performances.  The original cast included Patrick O'Neal, Bette Davis as Maxine, and Margaret Leighton.  Bette left after four months and was replaced by Shelley Winters.

[sundayera7-blog]

Tamara O’Neal Was Almost Erased From The Story Of Her Own Murder

Dr. Tamara O’Neal had just finished up her emergency room shift at Mercy Hospital in Chicago on Nov. 19 when Juan Lopez, her ex-fiance, materialized in the parking lot. He knew where to find her. Earlier in the day, he rang the hospital trying to get her on the phone. She told the clerk who took the call to tell him she was busy.

As recently as September, O’Neal, 38, had planned to marry Lopez. But something caused her to change her mind, and a few weeks before the wedding, she broke off the engagement. On Monday the sight of him scared her enough to dial 911.

In the parking lot, he claimed to want his engagement ring back, but that was an excuse, another attempt to control her. He revealed his true intentions when he pulled out his gun and shot her six times. Afterward, he ran into the hospital and kept shooting, killing Dayna Less, a 24-year-old pharmacy resident, and Samuel Jimenez, 28, a rookie officer with the Chicago Police Department, before being killed by officer gunfire.

In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, when the facts were still being sorted, the media latched onto the policeman who was killed in the line of duty. His death ― understood as the most newsworthy component of the incident ― became the story. Headlines, captions and mobile alerts (including HuffPost’s), focused on him. In The New York Times, for example, O’Neal was not named until the fifth paragraph, as one of the “other victims,” and her relationship to the shooter wasn’t explained until later in the story.

Somehow, a mass shooting rooted in gendered violence was framed as a random act. Even Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a news conference said the mass shooting was “the consequence of evil.”

But the shooting was not random at all. It was the consequence of domestic violence. And by relegating O’Neal to a supporting part in the story, the media fundamentally misrepresented the nature of the attack. The massacre was a result of her ex-partner’s final attempt to control her.  

“We are not connecting the dots correctly,” said Monica McLaughlin, the director of public policy at the National Network to End Domestic Violence.

The erasure of O’Neal from the narrative obscures the motivation behind the attack, McLaughlin added, making it harder for the public to recognize the undercurrent of toxic masculinity in American gun violence.

Monte Gerlach Photography via AP

Tamara O'Neal in September 2017. Although her killing was the consequence of domestic violence, many news outlets at first minimized her in their reports about a mass shooting.

“Violence against women is a common denominator in many, many, many of these shootings,” she said.

As HuffPost has reported, most mass shootings in the U.S. involve a man targeting his intimate partner or another family member. And among mass shooters who target the public in random acts of violence, many have histories of abusive behavior toward women. (See: Pulse, Parkland, Sutherland Springs.)

David Adams, a domestic violence expert who has studied men who kill their partners, said many homicidal abusers feel a sense of ownership over their wife or girlfriend.

“They blame their partners for their own problems and, in general, see themselves as victims of unappreciative, selfish partners,” he said. Men who kill their partners as part of a mass shooting may simply want a larger audience to advertise their grievances, he added.

Like many mass shooters before him, Lopez had a history of abusive behavior toward women. He was fired from the Chicago Fire Academy in 2014 after he was accused of inappropriate conduct with female cadets. The same year, his then-wife filed an emergency protective order against him. “I fear that my safety is in jeopardy,” she wrote, stating that he was acting erratically with his firearm and had threatened to go to her job and cause a scene.

Four years later, he followed through on his threat to cause a scene at a workplace, only this time it was to confront O’Neal. “He couldn’t let it go,” her father, Tom O’Neal, told the Chicago Sun-Times. “He couldn’t let go and he took her away from us.”

Ruth Glenn, the executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said she understood the gut instinct among media outlets to emphasize the police officer’s death. Unfortunately, when it comes to gun violence, there is a hierarchy of newsworthiness. A police officer killed in the line of duty makes headlines far more often than a woman slain by her intimate partner. Especially, Glenn said, if she is a woman of color.

“[Police officers] put their lives on the line every day,” she said. “But if you think about it, so does a victim when she has decided that she needs to be away from the violence.”

A mass shooting rooted in gendered violence was framed as a random act.

Women are at the highest risk of being killed when they leave their partners, said Maureen Curtis, the vice president of criminal justice programs for the nonprofit group Safe Horizon. For many women, their workplaces can become a place of heightened danger, as their partners know when and where they work.

In 2017, Karen Elaine Smith was teaching an elementary class in San Bernardino, California, when her husband, whom she had recently left, walked in with a handgun and began shooting, killing her and an 8-year-old student. 

“This is one reason why we need to recognize that domestic violence is not just a personal matter and that helping and supporting a victim not only can save her life but the lives of others,” Curtis said.

Erasing domestic violence from the story also does a disservice to the police officer slain, said Mark Wynn, a retired Tennessee officer who now travels the country training police on issues related to violence against women.

Calls related to domestic disputes are the most dangerous for police, he said. In a strange coincidence, Wynn was just a few miles from Mercy Hospital, training Chicago police officers how to respond to domestic violence incidents, with a focus on officer safety, when the shooting happened.

“Every cop knows the deadly line of ‘If I can’t have you, nobody will,’” he said. “Abusers do not like to be held accountable for their crimes.”

This story has been updated to include Dr. Tamara O’Neal’s occupation.

Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tamara-oneal-chicago-shooting-domestic-violence_us_5bf576a6e4b0771fb6b4ceef

[odk-2]

Charley Pride - Kiss an Angel Good Mornin' (1971) Ben Peters from: "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" / "No One Could Ever Take Me from You"

Country Music | The Nashville Sound

JukehostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Charley Pride: Vocals Billy Grammer: Guitar Chip Young: Guitar Allen Reynolds: Guitar Jack Clement: Guitar Gene O'Neal: Steel Guitar Buddy Spicher: Fiddle Tommy Williams: Fiddle Hargus Robbins: Piano William Irwin: Organ Junior Huskey: Bass Jerry Carrigan: Drums

Produced by Jack Clement

Recorded: @ RCA's "Nashville Sound" Studio (RCA Studio B) in Nashville, Tennessee USA on July 29, 1971

Released: October 23, 1971

Charley Pride March 18, 1934 – December 12, 2020

[thehouseofjohndeaf]

Black&Blue

To support the Blue Lives Matter movement is to express to the world around you that you have no idea what Black Lives Matter even means, and to suggest that authority is more important than personal freedoms or happiness.

Let’s say someone in support of Blue Lives Matter is a centrist and not fully aware of what the two sides truly stand for.  Here’s your cheat sheet. 

History of Black Lives Matter:

2013: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi respond to the acquittal of George Zimmerman by kickstarting the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag and movement.

2014: Police kill 1,039 people including Dontre Hamilton, Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, Laquan McDonald, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Antonio Martin, Jerame Reid

2014 July: Eric Garner dies in New York City, after a New York City Police Department officer put him in a chokehold while arresting him.

2014 August: Mike Brown is murdered in Ferguson by police officer Darren Wilson; Darnell Moore and Patrisse Cullors organize a national ride during Labor Day weekend in protest.

2014 November: A New York City Police Department officer shoots and kills Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old African-American man.  

2014 November: Alicia Garza organizes a response to the grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson for the death of Mike Brown; fourteen Black Lives Matter activists are arrested.

2014 November: Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy is shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer.

2014 December: 2,000–3,000 people gather at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota to protest the killings of unarmed black men by police.  At least twenty members of the protest are arrested.

2014 December: In Wisconsin, BLM protests the police shooting of Dontre Hamilton, who died in April.

2014 December: Black Lives Matter protests the shooting of John Crawford III.

2014 December: The shooting of Renisha McBride is protested by Black Lives Matter.

2014 December: In response to the decision by the grand jury not to indict Darren Wilson on any charges related to the death of Michael Brown, a protest march was held in Berkeley, California.

2015: Police kill 1,134 people including Charley Leundeu Keunang, Tony Robinson, Anthony Hill, Meagan Hockaday, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, William Chapman, Jonathan Sanders, Sandra Bland, Samuel DuBose, Jeremy McDole, Corey Jones, and Jamar Clark as well as the killing of The Charleston Nine.

2015 March: BLM protests at Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office, demanding reforms within the Chicago Police Department.

2015 March: Charley Leundeu Keunang, a 43-year-old Cameroonian national, is fatally shot by Los Angeles Police Department officers. The LAPD arrests fourteen following BLM demonstrations.

2015 April: Black Lives Matter across the United States protests over the death of Freddie Gray which includes the 2015 Baltimore protests.

2015 April: After the shooting of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, Black Lives Matter protests Scott's death and calls for citizen oversight of police.

2015 May: A nationwide protest, Say Her Name, decries the police killing of black women and girls, which includes the deaths of Meagan Hockaday, Aiyana Jones, Rekia Boyd, and others.

2015 May: In Cleveland, Ohio, an officer is acquitted at trial in the shooting of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams.

2015 May: In Madison, Wisconsin BLM protests after the officer was not charged in the shooting of Tony Robinson.

2015 June: Dylann Roof's shooting in a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

2015 June: A video is released showing an officer pinning a girl—at a pool party in McKinney, Texas—to the ground with his knees.

2015 July: Sandra Bland, an African-American woman, is allegedly found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas.

2015 July: Samuel DuBose is shot and killed by a University of Cincinnati police officer.

2015 July: Jonathan Sanders dies while being arrested by police in Mississippi.

2015 August: In Charlotte, North Carolina, a judge declares a mistrial in the trial of a white Charlotte police officer who killed an unarmed black man, Jonathan Ferrell.

2015 September: BLM protests the shooting of Jeremy McDole.

2015 October: Black Lives Matters activists are arrested during a protest of a police chiefs conference in Chicago.

2015 November: Jamar Clark is shot by Minneapolis Police Department.

2015 November: A group of men carrying firearms and body armor confront a BLM march, and begin calling the protesters racial slurs.  After protesters ask the armed men to leave, the men open fire, shooting five protesters.

2016: Police kill 963 people including Bruce Kelley Jr., Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Joseph Mann, Abdirahman Abdi, Paul O'Neal, Korryn Gaines, Sylville Smith, Terence Crutcher, Keith Lamont Scott, Alfred Olango, and Deborah Danner.

2016 January: Mario Woods is shot by San Francisco Police officers

2016 January: Bruce Kelley Jr. is shot after fatally stabbing a police dog while trying to escape from police.

2016 February: Abdullahi Omar Mohamed, a 17-year-old Somali refugee, is shot and injured by Salt Lake City, Utah police.

2016 June: Conviction and sentencing of Jasmine Richards for a 2015 incident in which she attempted to stop a police officer from arresting another woman

2016 July 5: Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, is shot several times at point-blank range while pinned to the ground by two white Baton Rouge Police Department officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

2016 July 6: Philando Castile is fatally shot by Jeronimo Yanez, a St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer, after being pulled over in Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul. Castile was driving a car with his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter as passengers when he was pulled over by Yanez and another officer.  A video of the shooting is instantly uploaded and shared via social media.

2016 July 8: More than 100 people are arrested at Black Lives Matter protests across the United States.

2016 July 28: Chicago Police Department officers shoot Paul O'Neal in the back and kill him following a car chase.

2016 August 1: In Randallstown, Maryland police officers shoot and kill Korryn Gaines, a 23-year-old African-American woman, also shooting and injuring her five-year-old son.

2016 August: Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers kneels during the national anthem, as opposed to the tradition of standing, before his team's third preseason game.  During a post-game interview he explains his position stating, "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."

2016 September: Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma is shot to death by police officers

2016 September: Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina is shot to death by police officers.

2017: Police kill 987 people

2017 January: Hector Navarrete, a 31-year-old Hispanic man, is shot in a vehicle in Northglenn, Colo. after police falsely accused Navarrete of kidnapping his girlfriend.  The police stated Navarrete tried to ram their vehicle, but the girlfriend and witness to the encounter stated this was a false accusation.

2017 January 10: Darrion Barnhill, an unarmed 23-year-old black man, is shocked with a stun gun and shot in Reagan, Tenn. when police broke into his home for outstanding warrants.  Although unarmed, the police opened fire.

2017 February: A month-long "Black Lives Matter" art exhibition is organized by three Richmond, Virginia artists at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond in the Byrd Park area of the city. The show features more than 30 diverse multicultural artists on a theme exploring racial equality and justice.

2017 February 5: Nana Adomako, an unarmed 45-year-old black man, is shot in Fremont, Calif.  Captain Sean Washington, tasked with investigating the murder stated, "My observations of the video it was such a sudden and violent attack that I think Officer Taylor did a fantastic job trying to survive that particular situation by going through and considering the tools that he had available for him at the time," 

2017 February 8: Chad Robertson, an unarmed 25-year-old black man, is shot in Chicago, Ill. by an Amtrak officer with only 18 months on the job.  He shot Robertson in the back as he was fleeing under the suspected possession of marijuana.  The officer’s lawyer claimed he "really believed he was about to be shot," and stated Robertson reached into his pocket while charging at the officer.  Yet, none of the six witnesses in the 300 block area saw Robertson turn or gesture toward the officer.  Following the shooting, Robertson’s heartbroken sister stated, "He had dreams and aspirations. I'm devastated. I'm devastated that his life was taken."

2017 February: Virginia Commonwealth University's James Branch Cabell Library focuses on a month-long schedule of events relating to Black history and showed photos from the church's "Black Lives Matter" exhibition on its outdoor screen.  The VCU schedule of events also includes: the Real Life Film Series The Angry Heart: The Impact of Racism on Heart Disease among African-Americans; Keith Knight presented the 14th Annual VCU Libraries Black History Month lecture; Lawrence Ross, author of the book Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses talked about how his book related to the "Black Lives Matter" movement; and Velma P. Scantlebury, M.D., the first black female transplant surgeon in the United States, discussed "Health Equity in Kidney Transplantation: Experiences from a surgeon's perspective."

2017 February 10: Jocques Clemmons is shot in Nashville, Tennessee, and incites a BLM protest.

2017 March 19: Alteria Woods, an pregnant unarmed 21-year-old black woman, is shot in her home in Gifford, Fla.

2017 April 29: Jordan Edwards, an unarmed 15-year-old black male, is shot in Balch Springs, Tex. during a routine traffic stop following a report to police that there may have been a party in the area where underaged drinking may have occurred.  Edwards was in the passenger seat of his 16-year-old brother’s car when the officer fired through the passenger window.  False claims were made by police through the following days that Edward’s car was backing up towards the officer, but later admitted the car was pulling forward.  The officer’s life was not in any danger, but he decided rather than allow car of young boys to pull away from a traffic stop he would rather discharge his weapon.

2017 May: The district attorney of Davidson County decides not to prosecute police officer Joshua Lippert, the officer who shot and killed Daniel Hambrick during a chase, shooting the unarmed man in the back.

2017 June 2: Marc Brandon Davis, an unarmed 34-year-old black man, is shot in Petal, Miss. after a car accident.  When officers arrived an alleged “altercation” broke out between Davis, who was just in a car accident, and one of the officers who remains unnamed. The family of the deceased soon sued the city claiming excessive force, intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment and battery and assault in the death of 34-year-old Marc Brandon Davis.  Petal Mayor, Hal Marx, refutes the lawsuit saying he's confident the officer "did nothing wrong."

2017 June 8: David Jones, an unarmed 30-year-old black man, is shocked with a stun gun and shot in Philadelphia, Pa. after fleeing a traffic stop.  Jones purposefully ditched his legally owned weapon and was shot in the back nearly 25-feet from where the gun dropped.  Jones was in a populated area as the officer fired in the direction of traffic.

2017 June 29: Aaron Bailey, an unarmed 45-year-old black man, is shot in his vehicle in Indianapolis, Ind. during a routine traffic stop.  Driving on a suspended license, Bailey fled the scene and crashed his car.  The officer fired his weapon 11 times, 4 bullets striking Bailey in the back of the head.

2017 July 6: Dejuan Guillory, an unarmed 27-year-old black man, is shot in Mamou, La. when an Evangeline Parish sheriff's deputy started a physical confrontation with both Guillory and his girlfriend.  The deputy first shot Guillory in his back while Guillory was face down, then fired several more times.

2017 July 7: Brian Easley, an unarmed 33-year-old black man and a former lance corporal in the Marine Corps is shot in Marietta, Ga.  Easley was living in a $25-a-night hotel, scraping by on a small monthly disability check from the Department of Veterans Affairs.  After returning from his 2005 tours of Kuwait and Iraq he found himself honorably discharged and returning home suffering from both physically ailments and mental illness.  In the summer of 2017 his usual disability check from the VA had mysteriously failed to materialize, and rent was due. If he couldn’t cover it, he’d be on the street, and the thought terrified him. On July 7 at around 9:30 a.m, the Marine veteran entered the Wells Fargo branch and claimed that the backpack slung over his shoulder contained C-4 explosive. He allowed several employees and customers to exit and then began making calls, dialing 911 to let the authorities know what was happening, and a local news station, WSB-TV, to explain his predicament. “They took everything,” he told the assignment editor who picked up the phone. “With my last little bit of money I got I’ve been able to hold up at a hotel, but I’m going to be out on the street and I’m going to have nothing. I’m not going to have any money for food or anything. I’m just going to be homeless, and I’m going to starve.” He continued to speak to the editor on the phone, “I already told them if I detonate this bomb, I’ll let them go first,” he promised. “These ladies are very nice, and they’ve been very helpful and supportive.”  He allowed the editor to speak with the hostages. One described her captor as “very respectful.”  Around 12:15 p.m. a single shot rang out, adding Easley’s name to the list of 236 mentally ill people killed by police in 2017.  As the hostages were whisked to safety, a robot entered the bank and retrieved Easley’s backpack, placing it in a “total containment vessel.” It was eventually deemed harmless, and inside investigators found a Bible, some papers, and other incidentals.  On his body they found a wallet and a broken cross pendant.

2017 July 19: Farhad Jabbari, an unarmed 38-year-old man, is shot in Saginaw, Mich. after he is pulled over for drunk driving.  Dash cam footage shows a clear picture of the encounter. “You just blew a 0.61, legal limit is .08, you are double the legal limit,” the officer tells Jabbari.  Jabbari is placed in handcuffs and placed in the back of the police cruiser.  “So I'm going to jail now?” Jabbari asks. “Yep, we will do the test right there,” the officer replies.  “I'm not going to jail,” Jabbari says.  Seconds later, Jabbari is able to slip out of one handcuff.  “What are you doing, uh uh, keep them on,” the officer says.  “I'm committing suicide,” Jabbari responds.  The officer opens the back seat of the car and is pulled in by Jabbari.  The officer fires five gunshots, killing Jabbari.

2017 September 27: At the College of William & Mary, students associated with Black Lives Matter protested an ACLU event because the ACLU had fought for the right of Unite the Right rally to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia.  William & Mary's president Taylor Reveley responded with a statement defending the college's commitment to open debate.

2017 October 19: Dewboy Lister, an unarmed 55-year-old black man, is shot in Corpus Christi, Tex. Lister spent the last years of his life mentoring the youth in his community.  He helped young men in Corpus Christi get jobs, he instilled in them respect for others and encouraged them to help after Hurricane Harvey struck the area.  He was shot in the torso during a traffic stop.  About him, Listers friends said, "He was a great man. He’s always a phone call away when families are in need.  He helped a lot of men around my age [21] land jobs at the local docks and ports.  He would constantly tell us to obey but know our rights. He was all about family and helping.”

2017 November 13: Calvin Toney, an unarmed 24-year-old black man, is shot in an apartment building in Baton Rouge, La. during a routine DCF meeting with an officer escort.  The footage was never released and Toney’s family was never given closure.  Toney was pronounced dead after a bullet wound to the chest, but paramedics found Toney’s body in handcuffs.  The official statement is that Toney was handcuffed after being shot, but without the body cam footage there is no corroborating evidence to this statement.  The family has been left without answers as to why their son was murdered.

2017 November 18: Lawrence Hawkins, an unarmed 56-year-old black man, is shot in Prichard, Ala.  Lakeisha Williams witnessed the event and stated a Prichard officer followed Hawkins closely all the way to his driveway without the patrol lights turned on.  Williams said, "It was ridiculous how he did that. He didn't turn on no lights until after that man was shot over there (the driveway)." Williams said Hawkins ran a stop light but didn't deserve to get shot.  She said, "He just got out of his truck and reaching out to get his cell phone." Williams continued, "The police was saying something and then all I heard was pow, pow, pow."

2017 December 1: Keita O'Neil, an unarmed 42-year-old black man, is shot on a street in San Francisco, Calif. by an officer on his fourth day on the job.  Body camera footage shows the officer drawing his pistol from the passenger seat while the cruiser is still moving. The video then shows him opening the side door and firing a single shot through the window as O’Neil, who was unarmed, runs by in the opposite direction.  O’Neil was later pronounced dead at San Francisco General Hospital.

2017 December 6: Jean Pedro Pierre, an unarmed 42-year-old black man, with a history of medical problems, including mental illness, is shot in Lauderdale Lakes, Fla.  Pierre’s family states the cops’ video footage misrepresents the man, who was a father of five, an entrepreneur and former political candidate in Haiti.  “They didn’t have to kill him at all,” said Ralph Fenelon, Pierre’s son.  “They had tasers, they had other weapons. They didn’t have to shoot him.”

2018: Police kill 1,165 people

History of Blue Lives Matter:

2014: The FBI reports 51 law enforcement officers were 'feloniously' killed in the line of duty.

2014 December: The homicides of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in Brooklyn, New York kickstart a counter movement to Black Lives Matter, which the authorities believe to be “anti-police”.

2015: National statistics Report 42 police officers were shot and killed.

2016: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund reports 64 officers were killed in firearm-related incidents.

2016 July 7: A BLM protest was held in Dallas, Texas that was organized to protest the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. At the end of the peaceful protest, Micah Xavier Johnson opened fire in an ambush, killing five police officers and wounding seven others and two civilians. The gunman was then killed by a robot-delivered bomb. Before he died, according to police, Johnson said that "he was upset about Black Lives Matter", and that "he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers."

2017: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund reports 44 officers killed in fire-arm related incidents.

2018: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund reports 52 officers killed in fire-arm related incidents.

Homicide Comparisons:

According to the FBI, which publishes the data in the Uniform Crime Reports, from 1980–2014, an average of 64 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed per year.

Updated estimates from the Bureau of Justice Statistics released in 2015 estimate the number of killings by police officers to be around 930 per year, or 1,240 if assuming that non-reporting local agencies kill people at the same rate as reporting agencies.

The numbers show why support for Blue Lives Matter is a disingenuous cause. Especially as most of those in favor of Blue Lives Matter are police officers themselves showing support for their “boys in blue.”  A police officer who is in support of Blue Lives Matter, and flaunts the Blues Lives Matter flag and merchandise, overall dismisses the deaths of the very citizens they’ve vowed to protect.

The initial response of centrists to the statement “Black Lives Matter” was “All Lives Matter”.  However, this is how disenfranchisement works.  Similar tactics are used against feminism, stating that feminists are anti-men.  As bell hooks stated in her collection of essays Feminism is for Everyone, “Conservative mass media constantly represented feminist women as man-haters. And when there was an anti-male faction or sentiment in the movement, they highlighted it as a way of discrediting feminism. Embedded in the portrayal of feminists as man-hating was the assumption that all feminists were lesbians. Appealing to homophobia, mass media intensified anti-feminist sentiment among men.”  We see this tactic being used today by groups like Blue Lives Matter to hijack a movement and portray it as chaotic and violent.

Black Lives Matter was never about the prospect that one life is more important than another.  Rather, it aims to highlight the most affected and yet least represented group of people.  The movement portrays the sentiment that no one is free while others are oppressed.  Or as Audre Lorde said, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter

https://blacklivesmatter.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Lives_Matter

https://www.odmp.org/

https://thinkprogress.org/who-police-killed-in-2014-44e56b4037a1/

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/30/373985338/report-number-of-police-officers-killed-spikes-in-2014

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/the-counted-police-killings-2015-young-black-men

http://www.aapf.org/sayhernamereport/

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/29/461402091/number-of-police-officers-killed-by-gunfire-fell-14-percent-in-2015-study-says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/

http://www.espn.com/blog/san-francisco-49ers/post/_/id/18957/transcript-of-colin-kaepernicks-comments-about-sitting-during-national-anthem

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/30/507536360/number-of-police-officers-killed-by-firearms-rose-in-2016-study-finds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017/

https://www.theroot.com/here-s-how-many-people-police-killed-in-2018-1831469528

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-amtrak-shooting-charges-20170217-story.html

https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/us/louisiana-fatal-police-shooting/index.html

https://taskandpurpose.com/didnt-kill-death-lance-corporal-brian-easley

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-new-estimate-of-killings-by-police-is-way-higher-and-still-too-low/

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Cleavant Derricks

Cleavant Derricks, Jr. (born May 15, 1953) is an American actor and Tony Award winning singer-songwriter, who is best known for his role of Rembrandt Brown on Sliders.

Biography

Derricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee to a pianist mother Cecile G. and Baptist preacher/composer Cleavant Derricks, Sr., famous for his popular gospel music hymn Just a Little Talk with Jesus. His twin brother is actor and musician Clinton Derricks-Carroll. Derricks began his career as a Nashville gospel songwriter. With his father, he wrote the gospel album Satisfaction Guaranteed. He was the musical director and composer for the musical When Hell Freezes Over I'll Skate.

Derricks went to New York City to study acting with Vinnette Carroll at the Urban Arts Theatre. He received rave reviews for his performance in her Broadway shows, including But Never Jam Today. He also won a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for creating the role of James "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls. Off-Broadway he was in the William Finn musical Romance in Hard Times in 1989. He also starred in the Broadway musical Brooklyn as the Streetsinger.

Soon afterwards, Derricks appeared in films such as Moscow on the Hudson, Neil Simon's The Slugger's Wife and recently, Wes Craven's Carnival of Souls. He was a series regular on the television series Thea with Thea Vidale and Brandy, and Good Sports with Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal. His role as Rembrandt Brown on Sliders with Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd and John Rhys-Davies was the only Sliders character to appear throughout the entire series. In addition, Derricks has had numerous guest-starring roles in series such as Roseanne, A Different World, Miami Vice, Spenser: For Hire, Charmed and many others.

Filmography

Discography

Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album (1982)

Beginnings (1999)

Brooklyn (2004)

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