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angelunderheaven · 9 months

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sometimes I love you and sometimes I don't

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futurebird · 9 months

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Newbern, Alabama is a small town. At it's heyday in the 1880s the population was 562. Today just about 150 people live there, with the population falling by 20% per decade for the past two decades.

It's a tiny town but there are residents who care about its future. One is Patrick Braxton, who started to question how the town was being run when working as a volunteer firefighter and during the early days of COVID.

The official leadership seemed unresponsive and even hostile. Newbern is majority black, but like many small towns in the Black Belt the town leadership is all white. Newbern has historically not had elections for Mayor--

Some residents from First Baptist Church of Newbern are fed up. Braxton among them. The small funds the Mayor controls are not spent with transparency. COVID supplies were squandered. When Patrick Braxton put up signs encouraging people to get vaccinated the signs were thrown in the burn heap.

So Braxton decided to run for mayor.

There is a process to have mayoral elections, Patrick Braxton found the paperwork despite obstruction from the city council. The existing mayor Haywood “Woody” Stokes III ignored him and didn't bother to run so Braxton won by default managing to get recognized by the county. Then, shortly after, the white town council met secretly and reappointed (??) Haywood “Woody” Stokes III as Mayor. It's an old typical situation. Here's the best article I found:

One other thing:

This kind of annoying headache inducing super local nit picky local politics is *the most important kind of political battle right now*

Power is built from these tiny councils up-- and the structures that keep all manner of "outsiders" from participating, or even knowing what they are doing need to be destroyed -- one little town at a time. Get the school board too.

If you live in a small town and don't know who the mayor is or what he does.

Maybe YOU should be the mayor.

One more note: The man's name is Haywood “Woody” Stokes III Haywood “Woody” Stokes III! I mean...

#racism #black belt #AL #us politics #small town america #small towns #small town #black tumblr #the south #down south #Haywood “Woody” Stokes III #Patrick Braxton

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247liveculture · 7 months

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Happy birthday Lil Wayne ! 👑 What's your favorite song of his?

#lil wayne #black tumblr #247lc #hollywood #throwback #music #new york city #hip hop #247 live culture #actor #interview #ATL #Georgia #down south #new orleans #louisiana #rapper #black music

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earlefromunder · 2 months

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#video editing #howard hughes #40s #70s movies #tommy lee jones #william graham #movie actors #film #the devil wears prada #billionaire #texan #down south #boy howdy

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newsbrand · 7 days

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R.I.P. Rico Wade of Dungeon Family

#n.e.w.s. brand #n.e.w.s #news brand 88 #n.e.w.s.#n.e.w.s.brand #steer your destiny #georgia #atlanta #atl #atlien #rico wade #dungeon family #down south #88 #hip hop #rap #entertainment #music

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boho-nordica · 4 months

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The first photo I took and edited that made me fall in love with photography. I was putting together a collection of framed photos of my Maternal grandmother's hometown for my mom's birthday and this was the first one I took and my favorite one.

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nefarious-616-necromancer · 6 months

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#rittz #rapper #rappers #rap #white rappers #atlanta #down south #back on my feet #for real #in my bones #aspd #bpd #mental health #mental illness #mental health awareness #actually mentally ill #mental health problems

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tani-b-art · 2 years

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The Black Southern culture in P-Valley is so satisfying to see! That deep, down South Black culture!

Hearing the dialect and the slang and the accents PLUS seeing the subtitles with all the BAVE (AAVE) in it...BRAVO!

...this second episode gave a spotlight to root work too. And it was a man who we saw as a healer. They're showing the effects of the pandemic and how it hit hard in the small, unmentioned Black towns and on an industry of that many Black women work in.

I'm enjoying season 2 already!

It's just rewarding to see Black Southern traditions and culture on screen like this. It's so rare as it is

#PVALLEY #P-Valley #BAVE #AAVE #Southern #Southern culture #Southern tradition #down South #Black culture #Black American #Black American culture #Katori Hall #p valley

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house-targaryen-vikings · 2 years

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'Jazzmans Blues'

#jazzmans blues #aesthetic #southern #period costume #period film #period drama #down south #tyler perry #netflix #black period films #love story #romance

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angelunderheaven · 7 months

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On the path to nowhere

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carbombrenee · 1 year

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Montgomery Old Cemetery, Montgomery, TX December 2022

#cemetery #headstone #taphophilia #down south #texas #montgomery county #road trip #pioneer cemeteries

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wadecountyy · 1 year

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#future #rap #rapper #hip hop #atlanta #music #down south

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newsbrand · 4 months

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The legendary rapper from Houston, Texas Scarface performs for a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR and here is s clip doing a Live version of one of his greatest hits "Never Seen A Man Cry ('til I Seen A Man Die)"

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luxja · 1 year

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#down south #asian doll #let's do a drill #***

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5purp · 1 year

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Tap In Wit Purple Baby <3

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giffypudding · 1 year

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A stranger in a strange land

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