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Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear
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In 1962, James Meredith became a civil rights hero when he enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Four years later, he would make the news again when he reentered Mississippi, on foot. His plan was to walk from Memphis to Jackson, leading a "March Against Fear" that would promote black voter registration and defy the entrenched racism of the region. But on the march's second day, he was shot by a mysterious gunman, a moment captured in a harrowing and now iconic photograph.
What followed was one of the central dramas of the civil rights era. With Meredith in the hospital, the leading figures of the civil rights movement flew to Mississippi to carry on his effort. They quickly found themselves confronting southern law enforcement officials, local activists, and one another. In the span of only three weeks, Martin Luther King, Jr., narrowly escaped a vicious mob attack; protesters were teargassed by state police; Lyndon Johnson refused to intervene; and the charismatic young activist Stokely Carmichael first led the chant that would define a new kind of civil rights movement: Black Power.
Aram Goudsouzian's Down to the Crossroads is the story of the last great march of the King era, and the first great showdown of the turbulent years that followed. Depicting rural demonstrators' courage and the impassioned debates among movement leaders, Goudsouzian reveals the legacy of an event that would both integrate African Americans into the political system and inspire even bolder protests against it. Full of drama and contemporary resonances, this book is civil rights history at its best.
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Aram Goudsouzian is chair of the history department at the University of Memphis. He earned his B.A. from Colby College and his Ph.D. from Purdue University. He is the author of King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution, The Hurricane of 1938, and Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Down to the Crossroads
Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear
By Aram Goudsouzian
Farrar, Straus and GirouxCopyright © 2015 Aram Goudsouzian
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Memphis to Hernando
It is sometimes said that the Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. For generations, the rich whites who owned the dark soil straddled by the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers came to Memphis, twelve miles north of the state border. Here men traded cotton, secured loans, and indulged in sumptuous feasts, high-stakes poker, and fleshly pleasures. Their wives visited department stores and beauty parlors, and their children caught trains to boarding schools and elite colleges. The hub of this social world was the Peabody lobby, with its elegant splendors: stately columns, a lavish mezzanine, ornate moldings on the ceiling. In the center stood a travertine marble fountain, holding a classical sculpture festooned with flowers. Ducks waddled in the fountain pool. The hotel epitomized a particular kind of southern grace, the kind that excluded someone like James Meredith.1
At 1:45 p.m. on Sunday, June 5, Meredith stood outside the hotel, ready to launch what he called his "second assault on Mississippi." He was a small, slightly built black man with a thin mustache. He wore a short-sleeved checkered shirt, sunglasses, and a yellow pith helmet. In one hand he brandished an ebony walking stick with an ivory head, a gift from an African village chief. In the other he held a Bible.2
His walk was scheduled to begin at two o'clock, but his publicity man Sherwood Ross figured that whoever was coming was already there. So Meredith started walking. Four people accompanied him. Two were black, the New York record executive Claude Sterrett and the Memphis businessman Joseph Crittenden. The two whites were Ross and a minister from New York, Robert Weeks. It was an unusual spectacle. A few television cameras recorded footage. The New York Times and major wire services sent reporters, but The Commercial Appeal of Memphis did not. A handful of whites watched with curiosity. At first, a man behind them waved a small Confederate flag, but after two policemen requested that he desist, he left.3
Meredith led his cadre across Beale Street, the heart of Memphis blues, where Delta migrants such as Robert Johnson, B.B. King, and Howlin' Wolf had strummed and picked and moaned and wailed. Proving Ross wrong, some members of the Memphis NAACP arrived just after the marchers left the Peabody, including Maxine and Vasco Smith, the branch's executive director and vice president. They soon caught up to Meredith. As they weaved through the densely packed black neighborhoods south of Beale, some women and children walked alongside them, enjoying the hullabaloo. Others spilled onto porches and sidewalks, extending good wishes.4
Meredith puzzled Weeks. Meredith dodged deep questions by steering conversations toward trivialities, yet he possessed a spiritual calm. Weeks likened him to Joan of Arc, "a militaristic mystic." He seemed unfazed by any harassment—when reporters mentioned the man waving the Confederate flag, he just praised General Stonewall Jackson. It bothered him more that only women and children had joined the walk through Memphis. "Negro men are afraid to be men down here," he grumbled.5
As they walked through South Memphis, they crossed neighborhoods where much of the city's black population was concentrated. They passed near Stax Records, where Otis Redding and Rufus Thomas were popularizing the funky, soulful, modern Memphis sound. By late afternoon, about eight miles south of downtown in rural Whitehaven, they walked past a white colonial mansion, set back about a hundred yards from Highway 51, bounded by fourteen rural acres. It was Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley.6
As the surroundings got rural, the mood got hostile. Whites drove up and down the highway, snapping photos and yelling insults. Cars whizzed so close to the marchers that the wind whipped their pant legs. "Hurry up, nigger, you're gonna get killed in Mississippi," jeered one man. Weeks's clerical collar branded him a special race traitor. "Hey preacher!" said an old man, leaning out of his car, his face promising violent mischief. "Where are you staying tonight?" Other hecklers waved Confederate battle flags, and in the early evening, two men rode back and forth on horseback, wearing ten-gallon hats and wielding massive flags, whooping the rebel yell.7
A little after 6:30, Meredith's party stopped a quarter mile north of the state line. About thirty cars filled with whites had gathered to block them, but Tennessee state policemen dispersed the troublemakers before the marchers arrived. Anyway, Meredith had decided that Mississippi could wait until the next morning. Before catching a ride back to Memphis, he shrugged off the possibility of danger. He had seen worse.8
Ross, by contrast, had never tasted such venom. As a radio reporter, he had covered civil rights stories in northern cities, but nothing prepared him for the anger, and even distress, of their detractors along Highway 51. These young whites, he surmised, viewed Meredith as the symbol of a changing order, one that weakened their own status. He feared what would happen in Mississippi, the most notoriously racist state in the Union. They needed federal men, he figured. Ross called Whitney Young, the executive director of the National Urban League.
"Get us some protection, please," he urged. "We're going to get shot tomorrow."9
* * *
James Meredith had long considered himself the sole architect of his special destiny. When he was about seven years old, he accompanied his father, Moses "Cap" Meredith, to the home of a white farmer. Cap owned cows that had been grazing on the farmer's property, and he needed to pay the white man. He called out his presence from the front walkway. After a long, long silence, the white man told Cap to go to the back porch, per racial custom. But Cap refused to budge. For three hours, he sat on his mule wagon. He would not even let his squirming son urinate in the woods. Finally, the white man walked outside to conduct their business. The child learned his first lesson about manhood.10
Christened J.H. and known as "J," the oldest son of Cap and Roxie Meredith was born during the Great Depression in the hardscrabble Hill Country of central Mississippi, surrounded by the institutions and customs of white supremacy. But his parents provided a model of conservative self-reliance. Cap had registered to vote in 1919, and his family owned an eighty-four-acre farm north of Kosciusko, the seat of Attala County. The children chopped cotton and slopped hogs. They learned to save money, study hard, and avoid kowtowing to whites. Whenever possible, Cap kept them on his property, away from white people's homes.11
From a young age, "J" saw himself as set apart, special. His family claimed ancestors that included a white chief justice of Mississippi and the leader of the Choctaw Nation—a multicultural heritage of elites that separated them from the bulk of Attala County blacks, who lived in shotgun shacks and obeyed codes of white dominance. Abiding by the ideals of frugality, order, education, and respectability, Meredith developed faith in his own potential. For his senior year of high school, he lived with an uncle in St. Petersburg, Florida. He won an essay contest sponsored by the American Legion on the subject "Why I Am Proud to Be an American."12
In 1951 he enlisted in the United States Air Force under the name James Howard Meredith. The military reinforced his respect for personal discipline and chain-of-command leadership. In 1957 the air force stationed him in Japan. Living without America's racial baggage was liberating—but also frustrating. He yearned to fight Jim Crow, but he could not do so while in the military. Those limits exacerbated his tendency to boil over with nervous tension, to explode with emotional exhaustion. "Patient is extremely concerned with racial problems, and his symptoms are intensified whenever there is heightened tempo in the racial problems in the United States and Africa," noted a military psychiatrist. "He loses his temper at times over minor incidents both at home and elsewhere."13
Meredith returned to Mississippi in 1960. While continuing his education at all-black Jackson State College, he applied for transfer to the all-white University of Mississippi, known to all as Ole Miss. It took a federal court case, elaborate negotiations between Governor Ross Barnett and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, multiple attempts to register for classes, the enlistment of U.S. marshals, and the activation of the National Guard, but Meredith finally enrolled at Ole Miss. When he arrived on campus, an angry horde tossed bottles, bricks, and Molotov cocktails while laying siege to the marshals. Two innocent onlookers died during the chaos. On the morning of October 1, 1962, Meredith awoke to attend his first class. He saw ravaged grounds and smelled tear gas. Because of his single-minded resolve, the federal government had enforced his constitutional right to attend the university of his choice.14
The crisis turned Meredith into a civil rights hero. Stoic and courageous, he projected the image of a loyal American citizen seeking educational opportunity. Throughout the academic year, marshals and soldiers monitored him as he encountered racist slurs, cruel pranks, hate mail, and social isolation. He refused to be a passive victim: he criticized the segregation of army units during the riot, threatened to leave the university unless conditions improved, and dismissed concerns about his personal safety. "It was an ordeal that tested not only his moral character, but his mental fiber as well," lauded The Chicago Defender upon his August 1963 graduation. "American education, in all its turbulent history, has not had a comparable stalwart example."15
The Ole Miss crisis served as a flashpoint for the civil rights movement, dramatizing racial injustice to the entire world, just like the student sit-ins of 1960 and the Freedom Rides of 1961. But Meredith felt alienated from political organizations. He rejected any place within a mass movement. The trials of Ole Miss had scarred him—he was more of a loner than ever before. Yet the ordeal also deepened his faith in his own singular mission.
His independent streak ruffled the feathers of the black establishment. At the annual NAACP convention in July 1963, Meredith disparaged the upcoming March on Washington, complaining to a banquet room of youth leaders about "the very low quality of leadership present among our young Negroes, and the childish nature of their activities." He also called them "burrheads." In response, delegates cheered a speech that rebuked him, while black leaders and columnists ripped him. The backlash sparked Meredith's unpredictable temper. "My makeup cannot endure this kind of intolerance," he seethed, shedding tears of rage and shame.16
Meredith also criticized nonviolence, the movement's preeminent (and media-friendly) tactic. He disparaged the 1963 Birmingham Campaign, which exposed black women and children to snapping police dogs, crushing blasts from fire hoses, and violent police officers. Meredith's father had slept near a loaded shotgun. Meredith himself had served nine years in the military. Nonviolence, in his mind, crippled black manhood. A man possessed basic rights, including the right to defend himself.17
Yet Meredith longed for influence within the civil rights movement. In 1964 he wrote to Martin Luther King, chastising him for never returning his phone calls or letters. "I have a great need to know what is going on that will have a future bearing on my people," wrote Meredith. "I think I should know what is going on behind the scenes as well as what is going on publicly."18
After Ole Miss, he established the James Meredith Educational Fund for scholarship and job placement programs, but soon dropped the effort. He moved to Washington, D.C., and considered running for Congress, but in the summer of 1964 he accepted a three-year postgraduate fellowship from the University of Ibadan. He moved to Nigeria because he saw connections between the plights of black Americans and black Africans, but also because he was dissatisfied with the civil rights leadership. "It was really simply a question of whether I should destroy certain elements of our struggle, or to give it time to let it destroy itself," he reflected.19
Although Meredith enjoyed traveling with his wife and young son through Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, he also complained that Nigerian officials ignored his presence and delayed his funding. Within a year he abandoned his fellowship. His prestige was fading. A July 1965 headline in the New York Amsterdam News asked: "Whatever Happened to James Meredith?"20
* * *
Meredith had long plotted a march from Memphis to Jackson. In Nigeria, he announced plans for a worldwide lecture tour on race relations, culminating with the walk down Highway 51. He never did the speaking tour, and through most of 1965 the march remained a rumor, bigger in the minds of enemies than allies. After journalist Louis Lomax mentioned it during a lecture at Kentucky State University, the Federal Bureau of Investigation pressed its informants for more information, to no avail. A race-baiting Mississippi columnist named Tom Ethridge snickered that Meredith was acting out of self-interest, creating rifts among black leaders, and considering "a number of other stunts and schemes up his sleeve, to stimulate the 'revolution.'"21
Ironically, Meredith had inspired a similar walk in April 1963. Horrified by the Ole Miss crisis, a Baltimore postman named William Moore had started walking from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, where he would deliver a message of racial compassion to Governor Ross Barnett. Like Meredith, Moore was a military veteran exercising his constitutional rights. Unlike Meredith, Moore was a white pacifist. He wore a sandwich board that proclaimed END SEGREGATION IN AMERICA and EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL. On the third day of his journey, near Attalla, Alabama, a Ku Klux Klansman murdered him. Five times, civil rights demonstrators and local activists tried resuming his journey, and each time police arrested them. Moore's "Freedom Walk" was never finished.22
In the fall of 1965, with his Mississippi march just an idea, Meredith enrolled at law school at Columbia University. He envisioned a career in politics, "the center of things where the policies are made." He joined student political clubs, sought to be a delegate at the 1967 New York State Constitutional Convention, and accepted speaking engagements around the country.23
He also finished writing Three Years in Mississippi, a memoir of his experience at Ole Miss. Published in spring 1966, it captured his contradictions. It included affecting portraits of black life in Mississippi, detached descriptions of his legal battles for admission, and grim tales of his campus ordeal. It also suggested a mystical self-assurance, one that was both profound and strange. He made repeated, matter-of-fact references to his "Divine Responsibility." Other passages implied that same sense of destiny. "My most stabilizing belief," he wrote, "is that I have never made a mistake in my life, because I never make arbitrary or predetermined decisions." Like Meredith himself, the book was sometimes lyrical and insightful, and at other times dry or bizarre.24
Meredith hoped that Three Years in Mississippi would restore him to the limelight, but he lacked the clout of major black public figures. He offered to appear on Today, but the NBC show declined—it had just interviewed James Baldwin, Alex Haley, and James Farmer. The Saturday Evening Post rebuffed his offer to write an article. The New York Times would not even publish his letter to the editor, which criticized press coverage of the planning session for the White House Conference on Civil Rights.25
Meredith conceived his Memphis-to-Jackson walk as part of a bigger crusade—one that would not only free African Americans from second-class status, but also advance his own political ambitions. "I am seriously considering running for the Democratic Nomination for Governor or Lt. Governor of Mississippi in the 1967 primary elections," he wrote to Rev. R.L.T. Smith of the Jackson NAACP. Meredith asked Smith for confidential advice about fund-raising, campaign managers, and the viability of black candidates in Mississippi. He planned to campaign while law school was out of session, and he hoped to register voters during the summer of 1966. While walking down Highway 51, he could build his political base, identifying local leaders and uniting black people under his leadership.26
Meredith also contacted white authorities in Mississippi, seeking the protection due any citizen. In January 1966 he wrote to Governor Paul Johnson that "I plan to go to the people where they are—in every nook and hollow in Mississippi—just the way you have done or any other Mississippian seeking to find out what the people want and how their wishes can best be served." By March, the governor had not responded, so he wrote similar letters to the sheriffs of ten counties along Highway 51. Only Madison County sheriff Jack Cauthen wrote back, assuring him that police would protect him if he acted lawfully.27
Perhaps most important, Meredith sought to conquer black people's fears. In July 1965, while back in Kosciusko for his father's funeral, a comment by his mother struck him. His younger brother was deploying to Vietnam. "I feel less afraid for him going to fight in Vietnam than I do to have him come home to Mississippi and have these white folks kill him," she said. Fear, thought Meredith, kept blacks on the bottom level. "I wanted to drive despair from the frustrated mind of a teenage Negro boy who had only just begun to feel the consequences of being inferior," he reflected.
Why should he have to drop his head and restrain his fist when he is insulted and abused without cause, when his father has taught him all his life to treat everybody right? Why does he have to look the other way when a white female passes by, when every day he sees his sister approached by a white man? Who is he going to hate and vent his anger on? The white man for being so cruel, or his father for being so weak? I want that teenage boy to know himself.
By walking into Mississippi towns and encouraging voter registration, Meredith would defy this culture of racial intimidation, setting a powerful example.28
Robert Weeks first offered to join him. The white, forty-year-old Episcopalian minister had admired Meredith's courage at Ole Miss, and he had missed the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, which had drawn clergy from across the country. As chaplain for the Hampton Training School in New Hampton, New York, he tended to about two hundred troubled boys, many of whom were blacks and Hispanics from New York City. In the spring of 1966, one of the boys dismissed him as a typical white liberal. "You wouldn't shed blood for me," he said. It troubled Weeks. Was his work a calling, or was it just a career? Would he sacrifice himself for justice? When he read about Meredith's plan, he saw a chance to test his ideals.29
Sherwood Ross attended Meredith's press conference at the White House Conference on Civil Rights and then offered his services as a publicist. He had worked for the Urban League in Chicago and New York, but he wanted to experience the southern civil rights struggle. Though a pacifist, he had served in the air force without seeing combat, and he yearned for some sort of self-defining challenge. He also feared for Meredith's safety. If he raised the march's profile, he could surround Meredith with reporters, and then no one would attack him, except perhaps "a demented person or a fanatic." After taking a press release to the city desks of the Washington newspapers, he drove with Meredith back to New York City, where he gave the release to The New York Times.30
Ross also called the Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Congress of Racial Equality, but the big organizations told him that Meredith marched to the beat of his own drummer. No one contacted any black leaders in Memphis. Even A. W. Willis, Meredith's attorney of record during the Ole Miss lawsuit, admitted that "I don't know anything except what I read in the paper."31
On the plane from New York on the morning of Sunday, June 5, Meredith and Ross met Weeks. After a late breakfast at the home of his cousins, Katherine and Robert Terrell, Meredith went to the Peabody Hotel, where he saw his friend Claude Sterrett, the sharply dressed twenty-four-year-old vice president of Rojac Records. The final member of the original group, Joseph Crittenden, owned a downtown gas station and convenience store. Long active in the Memphis movement, he had also participated in the March on Washington and the Selma-to-Montgomery march. He decided to join Meredith that very day, while driving home from church.32
Meredith's residual notoriety from Ole Miss had stimulated some attention for his walk, but his stubborn independence prevented it from becoming a mass-marching media showcase. No one, besides Meredith himself, believed in its potential impact. To those paying attention, it simply highlighted Meredith's courage (or folly) in marching through Mississippi. An eleven-year-old girl from the Bronx named Arlene Wilder marked the occasion with a poem. It began:
Oh God, in Heaven,
Let James Meredith be all right.
Let the angels watch over him,
Day and night.33
But how would James Meredith watch over himself? The night before he started, he contemplated whether to carry a Bible or a gun. The choice was fraught with political symbolism. The gun reinforced his bedrock faith in self-reliant manhood—if a man was conquering fear, a man should protect himself. But Meredith also believed that an American citizen deserved the protection of the American government when exercising a basic American right. And if he wanted broad support, then he needed to appeal to the public's better instincts. Civil rights and Christian righteousness had fused in the public imagination, thanks to Martin Luther King and his kind. So Meredith made a choice that he later called "calculated propaganda." He brought the Bible.34
* * *
On the morning of Monday, June 6, Weeks said a prayer under a big, green WELCOME TO MISSISSIPPI sign. That sign had long evoked mixed emotions in Meredith. He adored the state's natural beauty and took pride in his family's heritage, but Mississippi also had the lowest percentage of registered black voters and the most intense history of racial violence. The ghosts of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers haunted any black person who considered challenging Jim Crow. "If only I had my fair share in the running and managing of the state of Mississippi," mused Meredith, "what a wonderful land this could be."35
About thirty whites glared, shouted, and gestured at the group as it passed into Mississippi. Sterrett decided to prickle the hecklers by complementing his gray suit with a tie in the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy. He carried two small flags, and across his back he draped a large silk rebel flag with the words HELL NO.36
As they crossed the state line, the DeSoto County sheriff and his deputies awaited. "We're here to enforce the law," said the sheriff. "Meredith can walk all the way from here to Africa if he wants to." Two cars of state highway patrolmen, sent by Mississippi governor Paul Johnson, also followed the marchers; Weeks called one officer "Ol' Stone Face" when he kept ignoring their smiles and greetings. The third law enforcement organization on hand was the FBI. Its agents followed the march to observe if state and local police protected civilians without racial discrimination.37
In the flat and open fields along the highway, a few black workers watched Meredith and his party, but they seemed hesitant to approach, especially if their white bosses were in sight. Occasionally a car brushed past them, or a gas station mounted a cardboard CLOSED sign, or someone yelled, "I hope to hell you die before you get there." After about eight miles, while they snacked on ham sandwiches at a small state park, Meredith admitted that he was disappointed by the black turnout.38
That all changed in Hernando. The seat of DeSoto County, about twelve miles south of the state line, was the first real town along the route. Passing some sagging old mansions and dozens of rickety shacks, Meredith's group looped around the courthouse and into the main square. About 150 African Americans stood waiting at the far end. They were young and old, men and women, farmhands and shopkeepers. Some men looked downward at first, but Meredith's pride buoyed them. He smiled, greeted people, and shook hands. Register and vote, he urged.39
Never before had a black person in Hernando so openly defied racial custom. "God bless you, James Meredith," they exclaimed, despite the group of whites leering and hooting from across the square. Local blacks treated him to a hamburger and milk at a cafe off the courthouse square, and one old farmer pressed a dollar bill into his hand. "You just keep that," he said. "You just keep that."40
Meredith's spirits soared. "Hernando represented to me the whole purpose of my return to Mississippi," he explained. "I had gone there to talk to Negroes, to explain that the old order was passing, that they should stand up as men with nothing to fear." Sherwood Ross had tears in his eyes. The scene reminded him of a Hollywood movie, with the hero basking in a triumphant homecoming. He bought sandwiches, apples, and orange juice for the group from a small store, and they ate a midafternoon lunch under some shady trees. If life had any meaning, he thought, it revealed itself in these beautiful moments.41
As they continued south, Meredith brimmed with optimism. "Did you see them?" he asked. "They were men." His party picked up a fifth marcher, Bill Massey, a twenty-one-year-old black soldier from Nesbit, Mississippi, home on furlough. Meredith had originally wanted to reach Coldwater, nine miles to the south, but decided to stop sooner. He twirled his walking stick and teased a group of reporters about getting tired.42
Some teenagers brandished a mocking, scribbled chalk sign decorated with Confederate flags that read, YOU'RE 197.4 MILES FROM JACKSON, JAMES, THAT'S 1,032,272 FOOTS. Meredith joked that they should join him. They laughed, and one called him a "damn fool," but in a friendly sort of way. Meredith laughed, too, and offered to shake their hands. "No," said one boy. "You're still in Mississippi."43
Around four o'clock, Claude Sterrett ran up, nearly breathless. He had just spoken with an elderly black man, who had warned that a gun-wielding crank was down the road. Meredith looked up from some newspaper clippings about the first day of his march. "Well," he shrugged. He knew the dangers. In Memphis, he had mentioned the possibility of an assassination by a lone sniper. Along the route, he had even pointed out suspicious characters to the police.44
Meredith's companions also noticed potential threats. Joseph Crittenden remembered one particular man—a stocky white fellow in dark glasses and an open white shirt, holding an unlit pipe, sizing up the scene while puttering by in his car.45
They passed over gently rolling hills. Thick groves of pine trees and scrub oaks lined the gray asphalt road. It had rained that morning, so even though it was hot and sunny, the air felt damp, and the red clay soil smelled earthy and alive. Cars of reporters and officers leapfrogged the marchers, sometimes disappearing behind the next hill. At about 4:15, some of the reporters and Robert Weeks ducked into a country store, where they sipped cold drinks and soothed their aching feet. A few hundred yards ahead, Meredith and three others walked down a dipping stretch of road. Some cars trailed well behind them and others were out in front.46
They heard a shout: "James Meredith! James Meredith!" A white man stood on the east side of the road, ahead of Meredith, in a gully lined with honeysuckle and dotted with broken pine seedlings. It was the same pipe-toting man that Crittenden had noticed. He held a shotgun in one hand. He waved people away with the other. "I only want James Meredith!" Deliberately, even calmly, he walked closer, to about thirty feet in front of them. He paused a moment, waiting for people to clear away. The policemen hung back. The armed man had rendered everyone panicked, paralyzed. The moment was at once frenzied and in slow motion.47
The man raised his gun; a glint of sunshine reflected off the barrel. "James, look out!" shouted Crittenden. A shot boomed out, and Meredith screamed. Everyone scrambled away, tripping over each other. The man fired again. Meredith crawled across the road, trying to reach cover behind a car. His eyes were white with panic. His mouth gaped open. "Who, who…" he cried. The white man walked onto the road and fired a third shot, this time from closer range. Then he walked back into the woods.48
Meredith lay on his left shoulder and arm, with his right leg pulled up. Blood pooled below his right shoulder, and more blood dotted his head, neck, leg, and arm. His pith helmet had flipped off and landed upside down, while his walking stick lay on the ground, its ivory tip cracked and bloodstained. Reporters barked questions, photographers snapped away, and marchers screamed for an ambulance. Someone suggested that Weeks administer last rites. At that moment, while splayed on the gravel shoulder of Highway 51, Meredith regretted taking the Bible. He should have brought the gun.49
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Table of Contents
Prologue: A New Day
1. The Bible and the Gun
2. Leaving Egypt
3. Bargains in Blood
4. Daylight Breaking
5. Registering Is All Right
6. The World Is Watching
7. Everybody Should Have Their March
8. Standing Tall
9. Politics and Poverty
10. Down to the Crossroads
11. The Crow and the Blackbird
12. Delta Blues
13. Brotherly Love
14. The Prize Bull
15. The Shadow of Death
16. Uninvited Guests
17. We're the Greatest
18. Dreams and Nightmares
Epilogue: Highway 51 Revisited
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In Honor of Black History Month I made a point last month to read three books that would focus on civil rights, and this one was really eye-opening! For an event as important as the Meredith March of 1962, I was clueless. It was never mentioned in my history classes and I am not old enough to have lived through it. So, what Aram Goudsouzian has given me is a real gift. His writing is clear and balanced, with all angles, no bias. For those intersted, this was my academic book choice, and I encourage it to all others looks to learn more about the civil rights movement. You will learn how the Meredith March was a real turning point in history from the King to Black Power era. My lighter human interested book choice is the first memoir of Jackie Robinson, My Own Story. And for a literature touch I went with WEB DuBois "The Souls of Black Folk" - can't go wrong there.


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Area legislators offer opinions on WEDC
More than 30 people gathered at WITC in New Richmond for the fifth annual St. Croix Economic Development Corporation (SCEDC) Legislative Forum. The event advertised eight state legislators, but only three were able to attend: State Sen. Sheila Harsdorf (R-River Falls), State Rep. Dean Knudson (R-Hudson) and State Rep. John Murtha (R-Baldwin). State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout (D-Alma) was injured in an auto crash the previous weekend.
Roger Humphrey, St. Croix EDC board member and past president, hosted the event.
After allowing each legislator an opening statement, Humphrey asked the first question about their thoughts on the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.
In 2011, the WEDC replaced the former Wisconsin Department of Commerce as the lead economic development organization in the state. About a year ago, Reed Hall was named the CEO of the organization, which is still trying to find its footing.
"Obviously after it was created, there were some rough times," Harsdorf said. "It was rough going. There were some glitches in the new agency, but I will say that Reed Hall really came in. Most of the problems — pretty much all the problems — occurred prior to Reed Hall coming in as the secretary of the agency. There have been major changes made. I think there's been a recognition of the importance of getting the ship in order."
Murtha said he was pleased with the program, and Knudson offered some sharp criticism.
"I think ultimately the WEDC has yet to achieve really the potential of what the vision was," Knudson said.
He acknowledged that the WEDC has tightened its loan practices and found several areas to work on thanks to multiple audits.
"I don't think there are any problems with it as an entity that haven't now been discovered," Knudson said. "They haven't all been fixed, but they're working on all of them."
Affordable Care Act
Humphrey's second question was about the Affordable Care Act, and the three Republicans each took a turn criticizing the new federal health care plan and explaining its unintended consequences that affect small businesses.
"Most of what's good about Obamacare — the good parts — Americans have already seen," Knudson said pointing to the ability for adult children to stay on a parent's insurance longer and the elimination of pre-existing denials. "Other than that, there's an awful lot of pain, and it's going to ripple out in waves.
"The business changes have been somewhat put off, but it's going to be very difficult for small businesses to make the decision about whether they want to continue to be the provider of insurance, or whether they would be better off to have their employees on the exchange," Knudson said. "That's a decision that got put off, and in the next one to two years, you're going to see a lot of that."
Other topics
Once Humphrey opened the forum up to audience participation, the legislators fielded questions about frac sand mining and the loss of local control, removing the state's sales tax on clothing, shifting tax burdens from state to local and business climate uncertainty in general.
Each of the three said they wouldn't support the frac sand regulation bill currently in the legislature unless it is amended to preserve key aspects of local control.


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Well, now here's someone who most would think is a bit unexpected, to tell al the Left- and, more importantly, the Right-Wing 'Joooooz control the world' crackpots to, well, shut the fuck up and get real, basically.
Who is it? Nick bloody Griffin, that's who. You could've knocked me down with a feather when I read this article, where 'Nazi Nick' lays into, well, the world's neo-Nazis really. And I mean the actual, bona fide 'Joooooz caused WW2, the Holocaust never happened, lets support Iran because they might nuke the Joooooz' nutballs, whose support he freely admits that if he once had, he will now lose.
Yes, it is true that once upon a time Nasty Nick was firmly in that camp himself, a fact he pretty much admits in his article whilst trying his best to convince the world that he now rejects ideas like Jewish control of the media or the 'Holohoax' as it is known. But then if we can elevate Mahmoud Abbas, who wrote an entire book and thesis on the subject of how the Jooooooz actually worked with the Nazis to cause the Holocaust that also never really happened anyway into a 'moderate' why the hell shouldnt Griffin be entitled to 'recant'?
The article appeals to the world on a twofold basis. On a pragmatic level (which is I am sure the only one which the Left will admit is present) he argues that because there is no threat of a Jewish destruction of our societies it is lunacy to be bothered about the Great Jewish Conspiracy, and offers this gem to those nutty enough to side with Islam simply because it is inherently anti-Semitic:
"When the overwhelming majority of the instinctively patriotic people of our nations feel threatened by an alien force which is self-evidently evil by Christian and democratic secular values alike, to place oneself in the position whereby our political opponents can portray you as an enemy sympathiser, a collaborator, a traitor, is political suicide."
Extremely true.
However - and this is why I had the feather moment - having made the pragmatic, politically tactical point, he then goes on to give one of the best demolitions of the whole idea of the Great & Vast Jewish Conspiracy I have ever seen from Left or Right or even an apolitical Jewish source! In years to come people may cite lines like these as textbook rejections of the whole stupid idea:
Why are a disproportionate number of Jews involved in various movements? "So they can control both sides of the argument," is the fallback position of the doctrinaire anti-Semites, and the fact that they can shift so quickly from ignoring inconvenient facts to incorporating them in their Grand Scheme is an indicator that we are dealing here with cultist faith rather than a rational assessment of facts. Come on, George Soros doesn't give $15 million to a cause with which he doesn't agree, and all those leftwing Jews running the anti-war movement aren't really pro-war and cunningly pretending to be anti-war just to stop the tactical geniuses of the anti-Semitic American 'right' from building a mass support base and sweeping to power. The sad truth is that most of them have shown themselves incapable of working out how to sweep a floor, let alone how to sweep to power.
And further:
Now the same people are happily sending around the press statement from Iran's state-run news agency, Mehr, about the Tehran Holocaust revisionist conference. "Several anti-Zionist rabbis are in Tehran to take part in the conference," said the statement. What have we here? Good Jews? Mad Jews? Or Satanically devious bad Jews who want to take over Holocaust revisionism and use it in their plot to take over the world?
See what I mean about this conspiracy drivel driving people mad? It is one thing to have a proper history of political conspiracy, such as a history of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution, that accepts the standards of normal historical evidence. It is quite another to have a conspiracy theory that won't accept such evidence because it believes that the conspiracy is so powerful that it can fake any evidence it needs, and therefore forms an intellectual 'closed loop' from which there is no escape. Such a theory can 'prove' any possible claim and ignore any possible fact. Even if some of the facts on which it relies are true, the overall effect is therefore to take the theory out of the world of real history and to place it in the realms of pseudo-religious faith.
Well, quite. So what are we to make of this unexpected and bizarre recanting of previous conspiracy-theorism? Is it all a 'devious plot' to make the BNP seem like it has renounced all ties with 'Fascism' or 'Neo-Nazism' by denouncing Neo-Nazism's most sacred canard? This is no doubt what the Left will claim, whilst equally certainly the MSM will pretend it was never published in the first place. Well, if its all just Nasty Nick trying to pull a fast one on us all, let's see how the very people he is 'not really' attacking for their nutball beliefs have reacted.
Oh dear. If this really is all just a put up job, I don't think those bright boys and girls at Stormfront have had the memo, have they...
So here's a challenge for all those lovable 'anti-racists' like say cuddly Ken Livingstone who exclude attacks on Jews from their 'wars on racism'. Fucking well match Griffin. Go on, show us that you reject the doctrinaire anti-Semitism of both neo-Nazis and Muslims, just like he has.
Put up, or shut the fuck up about your 'anti-racist' credentials forever.


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Friday, May 26, 2017
RECENT WATCHES: RoboCop: Resurrection (2001)
RoboCop: Resurrection," seem to me like they should be switched. The second part concerned a character returning from the dead. The third part revolves around RoboCop's systems being completely torn down. Maybe they just decided it was catchier this way? Either way, "Resurrection" continues the "Prime Directives" series' attempt to follow the lead of the original, low budget and lack of talent be damned.
Last time we saw RoboCop, he was fleeing with Cable into the ruins of Old Detroit. "Resurrection" picks up there, both cyborgs being pursued by OCP shock troops. Murphy's power cells are nearly depleted, his life endangered. The two are soon separated. RoboCop is rescued by the band of mutant thieves he met last time. Cable, meanwhile, is abducted by Dr. Kaydick, a mad scientist with a grudge against the whole world. Kaydick manipulates Cable by implanting a kill switch in the cyborg's brains. Soon, the two RoboCops are once again turned against each other.
Something "Prime Directives" has lacked up to this point is a decent villain. Damian Lowe is too smarmy and Bone Machine was laughable. "Resurrection" introduces Dr. Kaydick. If you watched a lot of genre television in the nineties, you might recognize Geraint Wyn Davies from "Forever Knight" and "Dracula: The Series." Kaydick is a goofy character. A former OCP scientist, he's responsible for the Old Detroit thieves' superpowers. Kaydick can also run fast and shoot lightning bolts. His ridiculous plan involves a virus that infects both computers and people, an invention that stretches believably even for a sci-fi show. The writing is weak but Wyn Davies happily hams it up. He sports a perfectly demented grin and delivers all his dialogue in a horse whisper. If nothing else, a half-way decent villain centers the convoluted story a bit.
"Prime Directives" is still making attempts to follow the spirit of the original "RoboCop." Satirical commercials play throughout, including a gag about Lowe replacing all the newscaster with clones of the same woman. Yet the mini-series' own mythology receives the focus here. I can't say I'm too interested in John Cable struggling with his robotic state or Kaydick stealing his daughter away from his ex-wife. The seams in the acting are starting to show too, as Page Fletcher becomes a weaker RoboCop with every new installment. Still, I'm almost at the end of "Prime Directives" so I might as well wrap it up. [5/10]
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One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses.
The migration patterns of many songbird species, for instance, have evolved over millennia so that eggs hatch precisely when food sources such as caterpillars are at their most abundant, providing parents with ample nourishment for their hungry young. But because spring now often arrives early, the caterpillars are hatching earlier too, which means that in some areas they are less plentiful when the chicks hatch, threatening a number of health and fertility impacts. Similarly, in West Greenland, caribou are arriving at their calving grounds only to find themselves out of sync with the forage plants they have relied on for thousands of years, now growing earlier thanks to rising temperatures. That is leaving female caribou with less energy for lactation, reproduction and feeding their young, a mismatch that has been linked to sharp decreases in calf births and survival rates.
Scientists are studying cases of climate-related mistiming among dozens of species, from Arctic terns to pied flycatchers. But there is one important species they are missing—us.Homo sapiens. We too are suffering from a terrible case of climate-related mistiming, albeit in a cultural-historical, rather than a biological, sense. Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to a problem of this nature and magnitude—that moment being the tail end of the go-go '80s, the blastoff point for the crusade to spread deregulated capitalism around the world. Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished. Yet it entered mainstream consciousness in the midst of an ideological war being waged on the very idea of the collective sphere.
This deeply unfortunate mistiming has created all sorts of barriers to our ability to respond effectively to this crisis. It has meant that corporate power was ascendant at the very moment when we needed to exert unprecedented controls over corporate behavior in order to protect life on earth. It has meant that regulation was a dirty word just when we needed those powers most. It has meant that we are ruled by a class of politicians who know only how to dismantle and starve public institutions, just when they most need to be fortified and reimagined. And it has meant that we are saddled with an apparatus of "free trade" deals that tie the hands of policy-makers just when they need maximum flexibility to achieve a massive energy transition.
Confronting these various structural barriers to the next economy is the critical work of any serious climate movement. But it's not the only task at hand. We also have to confront how the mismatch between climate change and market domination has created barriers within our very selves, making it harder to look at this most pressing of humanitarian crises with anything more than furtive, terrified glances. Because of the way our daily lives have been altered by both market and technological triumphalism, we lack many of the observational tools necessary to convince ourselves that climate change is real—let alone the confidence to believe that a different way of living is possible.
And little wonder: just when we needed to gather, our public sphere was disintegrating; just when we needed to consume less, consumerism took over virtually every aspect of our lives; just when we needed to slow down and notice, we sped up; and just when we needed longer time horizons, we were able to see only the immediate present.
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› Climate change demands that we consume less, but being consumers is all we know.Climate change is not a problem that can be solved simply by changing what we buy—a hybrid instead of an SUV, some carbon offsets when we get on a plane. At its core, it is a crisis born of overconsumption by the comparatively wealthy, which means the world's most manic consumers are going to have to consume less.
The problem is not "human nature," as we are so often told. We weren't born having to shop this much, and we have, in our recent past, been just as happy (in many cases happier) consuming far less. The problem is the inflated role that consumption has come to play in our particular era.
Late capitalism teaches us to create ourselves through our consumer choices: shopping is how we form our identities, find community and express ourselves. Thus, telling people that they can't shop as much as they want to because the planet's support systems are overburdened can be understood as a kind of attack, akin to telling them that they cannot truly be themselves. This is likely why, of the original "Three Rs"—reduce, reuse, recycle—only the third has ever gotten any traction, since it allows us to keep on shopping as long as we put the refuse in the right box. The other two, which require that we consume less, were pretty much dead on arrival.
› Climate change is slow, and we are fast. When you are racing through a rural landscape on a bullet train, it looks as if everything you are passing is standing still: people, tractors, cars on country roads. They aren't, of course. They are moving, but at a speed so slow compared with the train that they appear static.
So it is with climate change. Our culture, powered by fossil fuels, is that bullet train, hurtling forward toward the next quarterly report, the next election cycle, the next bit of diversion or piece of personal validation via our smartphones and tablets. Our changing climate is like the landscape out the window: from our racy vantage point, it can appear static, but it is moving, its slow progress measured in receding ice sheets, swelling waters and incremental temperature rises. If left unchecked, climate change will most certainly speed up enough to capture our fractured attention—island nations wiped off the map, and city-drowning superstorms, tend to do that. But by then, it may be too late for our actions to make a difference, because the era of tipping points will likely have begun.


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Match play of the young stars from the three (and later four) major Go countries: Korea, China and Japan (and later Taiwan). Each team has 8 players.
In the overview players link to their biographies while results link to a detailed description of the edition.
To find the name of a player in other languages such as Chinese or Korean please refer either to the dictionary pages, Internet Go Dictionary or their biography pages.
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Connecting Power to the EPS
The MEMOLUB® EPS is supplied with a 12" wire lead that is connected to an external power source. A constant 24VDC power is supplied during periods of machine operation and will continue to follow the program until power is removed. When initial power is supplied to the MEMOLUB® EPS lubricator it will cycle once and then follow the preset MEMO program. When power is turned off the lubrication cycle stops until power is reestablished.
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The MEMOLUB® EPS lubricant output is programmed using the simple MEMO system. It consists of a brass MEMO fitting, a black plastic timing-ring holder, and three plastic timing rings (one white, one red, and one black). The MEMO can be programmed to control both the frequency of lube cycles and the volume of lubricant discharged. Once the MEMO is programmed and installed any MEMOLUB® EPS lubricator will recognize the settings.
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The design of the latest model Kawasaki Z750R successor circulating in cyberspace. The latest generation is called Kawasaki Z800 2013 and known photo spread stems from a local dealer in Bangkok, Thailand.
With the release of these photos, New Kawasaki Z800 being crowded discussed the bikers around the world. Because the model street fighter motorcycle design has the look of a fierce, muscular and looks very tough.
Name Kawasaki Z800 can be seen from the emblem reads "Z800" on the fairing. From design carried Z800 looks more violent than his brother Kawasaki Z1000. Thus further proving the Kawasaki effort in class motor sport competition to street fighter strengthened.
Despite the ferocious look, the comfort level is also of particular concern Kawasaki. It can be seen from the position of the handlebar jog look closer and straighter. So used to driving long distances is not easy to make the driver tired of having to bend over.
From the name of the new Z800, the chances of heart pacemaker sectors using the new machine. So that the capacity will be increased from 750cc to 800 cc. But better wait for official information concerning the New Kawasaki Z800 Kawasaki 2013.
We wait for the official release from Kawasaki. From the news circulated this bike will be available with two versions of ABS and non-ABS. Hopefully useful.
See pictures and specs of the Kawasaki Z800 2013
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Tuesday October 30, 2012
Actor and comedian Chris O'Dowd said that he would not rule out plans to move back to the Emerald Isle.
Currently living in London with his brocast journalist wife Dawn Porter, Chris said that he would be more than happy to give up the Big Smoke to start a family.
He said: "Maybe. I like the idea of it but someone might need to be convinced."
"We try not to talk about settling down yet. I think I've scared her enough!" he added.
When Chris returned to Ireland to film new movie Calvary, locals flocked around the set to see the star.
He said: "It's great. There was a period of about seven years where I was only here for Christmas and separate religious occasions, so being here for a stretch now is nice because it means you properly get to see people."
"Sometimes you can feel like a tourist in your own country if you're only coming back for a little while so it hasn't felt like that."
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Nickelodeon Presents a Night of Nick Cannon Behind and In Front of the Camera With Back-to-Back Movie Premieres, Sunday, Feb. 21
Hour-Long Musical Comedy School Gyrls Stars Real-life Teen Pop Trio in Title Role, with Guest Appearances by Justin Bieber, Cannon, Kristinia DeBarge, Reverend Run, Soulja Boy, Angie Stone and Pete Wentz
NEW YORK, Feb. 3 -- TeenNick Chairman Nick Cannon takes the helm behind and in front of the camera as Nickelodeon presents two back-to-back movie premieres featuring the multi-talented entertainer, on Sunday, Feb. 21. Cannon makes his movie directorial debut with School Gyrls, a new hour-long original musical comedy, which he also penned, premiering at 7 p.m. (ET/PT) and stars in the network's premiere of the popular theatrical film Drumline, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT).
"School Gyrls introduces the multi-talented Mandy Rain, Jacque and Monica to the teen audience," said Nick Cannon, Chairman, TeenNick. "The girls are triple threats -- each with their own amazing individual personalities � and Nickelodeon viewers will get an inside look at their road to fame in this movie."
School Gyrls centers on the eponymous, real-life, multi-talented teen pop group discovered by Cannon consisting of 15-year old Mandy Rain; 15-year-old Jacquelyn Rae Pyles aka Jacque Nimble; and 16-year-old Monica Parales aka Mo Money. The TV movie also features guest appearances by Justin Bieber, Cannon, Kristinia DeBarge, Reverend Run, Soulja Boy, Angie Stone and Pete Wentz. School Gyrls marks Cannon's second project for Nickelodeon and comes on the heels of the TeenNick HALO Awards, an hour-long special he created, hosted and executive produced, that recognizes and celebrates real teens who are making a significant difference in the world.
School Gyrls follows the adventures of three freshmen at Summerdale Academy, an exclusive all-girls boarding school. Mandy Rain, Jacque and Monica love to sing and dance, but have very different individual personalities. Fate unites the girls at school and they join forces forming an unlikely and unexpected friendship. The trio enters the Teen Island stunt party, where they find themselves battling it out with the reigning champions and resident mean girls: the sophomore cheerleaders.
"Nick Cannon's creative vision as Chairman of TeenNick has come to life, first with the TeenNick HALO Awards and now with his directorial debut -- School Gyrls," said Marjorie Cohn, Executive Vice President, Original Programming and Development, Nickelodeon. "School Gyrls really showcases Nick's knowledge of the teen demo with his discovery of these three relatable and gifted girls whose talents can live across multiple platforms."
Drumline is a dramatic comedy that spotlights the world of university marching bands. Devon Miles (Cannon) is a Harlem teenager who receives a full scholarship to attend Atlanta A&T University based on his excellent percussion talents. However, making the transition from hip-hop street drumming to the drumline of the school's legendary marching band is more challenging than he expected.
The premiere of School Gyrls will coincide with the release of a brand-new multimedia book series from Simon & Schuster Children's Division as well as the release of a debut album and a musical tour by the pop trio. Kicking off the School Gyrls book series is a movie novelization that will be published in this month by Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. Aladdin Books will publish six original novels based on the three girls. Additionally, the School Gyrls, signed to Cannon's NCredible Entertainment, will also embark on a 10-week cross-country tour with Cannon in spring 2010 timed to the March 23 release of their debut album on Island Records. The first single off the album, "Something Like a Party" will be available for sale digitally on Feb. 9. Cannon has also partnered with Archie Comics to introduce the School Gyrls into their iconic comic book series, with the cartoon characterization of the girls being introduced into Archie issue #607 which will hit newsstands nationwide on March 24 and be available for download on iTunes and Archie Digital.
School Gyrls not only look the part of sweet high school students, they actually are. Consisting of Mandy Rain, Jacque (pronounced "Jackie"), and Monica, the three young pop stars have major charisma and talent. Under the guidance of Nick Cannon, the group officially formed in November 2008 and have been hard at work ever since. They made their television debut as the School Gyrls with Nick Cannon on the season finale of E!'s TV show Party Monsters in Cabo San Lucas in January 2009 and have been busy recording their forthcoming debut album. Though barely old enough to drive, these young ladies are seasoned professionals with over twenty years of acting, singing and dancing experience combined. All are professionally trained triple threats and have each appeared in countless print and TV ad campaigns, music videos and performed as dancers for a variety of live stage shows. At the heart of all of it though, they are still sassy teenage girls who share a love for shopping, fashion and roller coasters.
About Nick Cannon
Cited by People Magazine as one of the 'Top Ten most successful young people in Hollywood' and featured on the Cover of Black Enterprises' 40 Under 40, Nick Cannon, 29 years old is a successful, multi-faceted entertainer: film star, comedian, musician, writer and executive producer of his very own hit TV shows. A San Diego native, Cannon began performing at the age of eight after his grandfather left him several instruments as a gift. Cannon headed for Hollywood at the age of 15 and landed gigs at world renowned comedy venues including The Improv, The Laugh Factory and the Comedy Store. Cannon went on to share the stage with the likes of Chris Tucker, Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock before landing his first television gig as a stand-up audience warm-up for the long running Nickelodeon hit show All That. Producers quickly recognized Cannon's calling was in front of the camera and he became a regular on the show as well as a writer, making him the youngest staff writer in television history at the age of 17. This path culminated in the creation of The Nick Cannon Show which he starred, directed and executive produced, earning him his first Kids Choice Award. While he enjoyed tremendous success on Nickelodeon, Cannon's career catapulted onto the big screen in 2002. He made an appearance alongside Will Smith in Men in Black II before landing a leading role in the classic feature film Drumline.
That same year he released his own self-titled debut album on Jive Records. In 2005, MTV debuted Nick Cannon Presents Wild 'N Out, an improve comedy show with musical performances that Cannon created, produced and hosted which eventually became one of MTV's highest rated shows in the network's history, airing new episodes for four consecutive seasons.
In the fall of 2006, Cannon was featured in the Emilio Estevez written and directed film Bobby. His performance earned him a 2007 SAG nomination for "Outstanding Performance" in addition to becoming the first African American Actor in history to be honored at the world renowned Cannes Film Festival with the "Breakthrough Actor of the Year" award.
In 2008, Cannon hosted the Teen Choice Awards for FBC, and was the host/DJ for ABC's highly successful Presidential Inaugural Neighborhood Ball. NBC also recently tapped Cannon to serve as the host for the new upcoming season of their hit show, America's Got Talent in 2010 following a successful stint as their host 2009. Cannon's other film credits include Sundance Film Festival featured films Weapons, American Son, and his most recent role in the psychological thriller, The Killing Room. He now has his own multi-media company called NCredible Entertainment, which has several TV shows and films in development. In addition to serving as the Chairman of TeenNick, Nickelodeon's 24-hour network for and about teens, Cannon is also host of his own morning radio show on CBS Radio's 92.3 NOW (WXRK-FM) in New York.
About TeenNick
TeenNick (formerly The N), the 24-hour TV network exclusively for and about teens, is currently available in 66 million households via cable, digital cable and satellite, as well on mobile, VOD and broadband. TeenNick's distinct perspective connects its audience to the electricity and possibilities of teendom, anytime and anywhere, with original series and ever-popular favorites. TeenNick.com, paired with sister site Quizilla.com, makes TeenNick the #1 online destination for teens. TeenNick and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom International Inc.
About Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon, now in its 30th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books, magazines and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in almost 100 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 15 consecutive years. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. ( VIA, VIA.B).


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Our beautiful Designer Yoga and Buddhist 108 Bead Mala Necklaces and Mala Bead Bracelets are handcrafted with mindfulness and right intention by a soulful jewelry designer in British Columbia, Canada. Each artisan mala features semi-precious gemstone beads with energies that enhance meditation and yoga practice and also feature stunning focal guru beads, pendants, and charms.
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Machine Learning Market Headed for Growth and Global Expansion by 2025
Accuracy is one of the major concerns in the healthcare sector. Machine learning have the capabilities to provide more accurate diagnosis and healthcare services, which in turn has augmented demand for machine learning in healthcare sector. For instance, diagnosis of diabetic eye disease requires frequent examination of pictures at the back of an eye by the specialist. The features in the image helps to identify sensitivity of disease, which in turn, indicates fluid leakage and bleeding. Moreover, in 2016, Google has developed a deep learning algorithm, which analyze images and provides training to the system by using a data set of 128,000 images. Thus, the system diagnose the disease with a level of accuracy similar to human ophthalmologists. On similar lines, Google researchers are developing a deep learning algorithm for early diagnosis of skin cancer and breast cancer.
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Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that enables machines to learn directly from data, experience, and examples. By permitting computers to execute specific tasks smartly, machine learning allows computers to carry complex processes by learning from examples or data, rather than following pre-programmed rules. Increasing volume of data being generated across industry verticals creates an exhaustive repository for machines to learn from, something that is further backed by rapid strides made in processing power of computers, in turn enhancing the analytical capabilities of machine learning systems.
Increasing advancements in technology leading to higher accuracy of systems fueling market growth
People interact with various systems, which are based on machine learning such as recommender systems, voice recognition systems, and image recognition systems. Rapid advancement in technology in image recognition system has increased the accuracy of the system, which has fueled the demand for machine learning in various systems. For instance, in image labeling challenge, the accuracy of machine learning was 72% in 2010 and it reached to 96% in 2015. The ability of machines to process large volumes of data and to use the data for prediction have made the machine learning a key tool in various applications such as BFSI, healthcare etc.
Integration of machine learning in robotics has fueled growth of the machine learning market
Rampant advancements in robotic industry has created various innovations in robots with the integration of sensor technologies and materials. The advancements in machine learning have increased the capabilities of robots to contribute in applications such as drones and autonomous vehicles. Moreover, the increasing demand for advance robotic system in various verticals such as automotive, electronics, food and beverages, healthcare etc has fueled the market growth. According to International Federation of Robots, in 2016, around 294,000 units of industrial robots were deployed across the globe. For example: In 2016, Fanuc, a Japan-based company, announced development of a robot with deep reinforcement learning technique, which enables the robot to train itself over a very short time duration.
Key Companies in the Global Machine Learning Market
Microsoft Corporation, SAP SE, Sas Institute Inc., Amazon Web Services, Inc., Bigml, Inc., Google Inc., Fair Isaac Corporation, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, and Intel Corporation are some of the major companies operating in the global machine learning market.
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