Dr. Telisa Franklin & Charlie Caswell

The Memphis Juneteeth Festival will celebrate with a two day festival says CEO Dr. Telisa Franklin and Shelby County Commissioner Charlie Caswell on The Bev Johnson Show on WDIA Radio.

Episode Transcript

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It is indeed a pleasure to have you with.

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Us once again on this Tuesday, June third, twenty twenty five.
Enjoy this fabulous day to day June Block Music Month.

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Celebrate block music. Get you some, get you some, listen
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We'll get ready to put your ears on as we
share the good news. First hour, we'll talk to some
folks coming up.

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It's also the month of June tenth. We'll talk about
that as well.

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June thirtieth, twenty twenty five, is your birthday. Happy birthday
to each and everyone of y'all out there who may
be celebrating birthday on this day. We say God, y'all
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When we come back, we'll join our guests as we
talk about Juneteenth next with me Bev Johnson on the
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Speaker 4 (05:11):
Good morning and welcome back to wd I A The
Bev Johnson Show. It is a beautiful Tuesday in Memphis, Tennessee,
June third, twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Enjoy your fabulous day wherever you are. Well.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
You know, June is a very special month for two reasons. One,
June is Black Music month. I told you all that,
you know. And also in June we celebrate Juneteenth. And
with me this morning to talk about Juneteenth. Yeah, we

(05:48):
started and put it on y'all's mind. We want to
welcome in I think the first time, I think the
first time these folks have been here to the BEV
Johnson Show. Let me say good morning, good morning, good
morning to doctor Halisa Franklin, who is the CEO of
the Memphis June teenth Festival, and Shelby County Commissioner Charlie Goswell.

(06:11):
How you doing, lady and gentlemen. That's the first time
y'all been on watching.

Speaker 8 (06:17):
You've been here, apostle, yes, Oh.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, so I wasn't here. See that's the difference. I
wasn't here. See, Commission, you need to be with me.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
I think I was with you, But it's been I
think it's been a little while when you would be
I think it was before you became a commission It
was because we were talking about things in the community.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
So we're glad to have y'all here. Sister, how are
you man?

Speaker 6 (06:43):
I'm amazing. It is a pleasure to be here with
the Queen herself, y'all. L Johnson, It's so great to
be here.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Doctor Police. Look about the queen and it's black music.
Queen Babe, I'm gonna give you all that good respect.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
Hey, you are the queen on the microphone or every
woman's supposed to be. Were standing on your shoulder.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Thank you and he's some strong shoulders back.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Thank you for you. Thank you once again. Yes, before
we Juneteenth, I need to ask you this. Okay, how
did you get involved with this Juneteenth celebrating that here
at Memphis?

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, you know, I was very blessed.

Speaker 6 (07:23):
June teen started in Memphis thirty two years ago, and
I always tell people we were doing it for it
was cool and for its a hashtag in the Douglas community.
Glenn Johns Reed blessed her soul. She started June tenth.
She coined me to pass it on at at age eighteen.
That's how we said it right. And I actually lived
on Ash Street, right across the street from the whether

(07:43):
we had the festival, and so I've been singing and
being around it for thirty two years. And she saw
what I was doing behind the scenes on other things
and actually say, hey, I think you can really take
this on, not knowing that it was a bigger task.
And I was ready for it because I thought it
was a festival that has the worldwithal and all that
just get in there and just manage and oversee it,

(08:05):
and not knowing that it was a pro festival, that
I literally had the fund of festival, but I didn't
mind because I knew our community needed it was a
staple in our community, and so I let the layd
gave me the wisdom to see what I need to do,
how to do it, and how do we move forward.
And I'm always grateful for my time of listening to
her vision and how she wanted to see it. Many

(08:27):
people don't even know bell that if they go to
Robert Our Church Park there is a time capsule that
she buried with doctor Harrington and so many others of
artifacts is to be open in the year of twenty
one hundred and so when I decided to move Juneteenth
out of Douglas Park or where she had and she knew,
we talked about leaving, taking it out of there so

(08:48):
it can be more of a Memphis festival.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Right.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
But when I go there and I think about she
knew it had.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
To move out because she put the time capsule and
Robert Our Church Park and then put it in the
park in which she was having a festival. And just
to see how the festival has grown under my leadership
has been amazing because for me, I've been all about
health and wellness and education. We know in the black
community we lack the education and we sure not lacked

(09:16):
the information about health and wellness, and so I'm just
grateful that how we're able to have a free event, yes,
for our community, a free event for our community. And
then this year, of course, you know June is Black
Music Month, and so we literally have our festival this
weekend because we're kicking off the month of June right

(09:38):
for Black Music Month and celebration of Juneteenth. And we
made sure we brought in the best acts locally and
nationally so that our people that look like myself maybe
have a financial challenge, can say I can take my
whole family to something that needs cost to be nothing
but time, and then they get an opportunity to go
to the outdoor museum of course, and I'm all about education,

(09:58):
and they'll actually get the education, Haiti that they understand
what does.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Juneteenth really mean. I remember the years when I was
in Douglas Park with Glenn. I would ride around on the.

Speaker 6 (10:07):
Golf cart y'all uh huh, and I was asked people, Hey,
do you know what Juneteenth mean, and they didn't know,
and the answers they got was Ludacris. I got was Ludacris.
And I told Glenn, I said, this can't happen no more.
She's like, girlfriend, do what you want to do.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
And I was like, okay, I am.

Speaker 6 (10:23):
And so I made it my point to make sure
that I'm educating our people because we perished for the
lack of knowledge and Juneteenth for all this listening on
the bell of Johnson Show, June tenth is the oldest
known celebration for the ending of slavery. Baby, you may
not have shackles on your hand, you may not have
shackles on your feet, but I need you to get
those shackles off your head so we can be all

(10:44):
that our God has called us to be.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (10:46):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
And so the years doctor Lisa being in Douglas Park,
you decided to move it.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
Absolutely So Glenn and I had already had all these
conversations before I moved, before we moved it, and before
I even took it over, because she's like, I know
that you can take this me not knowing the multitude
of this task, right, but she said, will you do
me a favor, though, will you keep it in Douglas
Park for two years? Just let me keep it here
for two years, and then will you do what you

(11:17):
want to do? Because I'm a woman of my word.
My granddaddy taught me as a little bit of girl,
your word to take you where money.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Won't right, And my grandfather told me your word, your
word is your value.

Speaker 6 (11:27):
And it's so funny bell that when I got the festival,
many people said, please to take it out now. I
said no, but I gave her my word. My word
was to make sure I do what I supposed to do.
And then when we moved it, I saw the hands
of the blessings of the Lord all my life. So
we did it there in Douglas And so I would
tell people. June Teeth had so much history from when

(11:51):
she started. It originally started at Saint Paul Church, Douglas
in nineteen then started at Douglas Park.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Oh I didn't know, So can I give you a
time home?

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Give me all right, because I remember the times that
we were there. We were at Douglas Park.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
And then started Douglas Park.

Speaker 6 (12:07):
It started it was actually She's over the Birthday Club
at Saint Paul Church and it was in June.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Glenn's birthday is the tenth of June, her birthday. And
so it started at Saint Paul.

Speaker 6 (12:21):
Church Douglas and it grew because you know, anybody knows
she would go from New Orleans Smithis. She loved riding
the train, right, and so that year it grown at
the church. And then that's when she decided and a
group of people to say, we're gonna take it to
the park. And we all know Douglas Park was the
only Charlie, you'll appreciate, this was the only park that
black folk can go play golf. It was a golf

(12:44):
course that was the only park that we could go
play golf. There's a history in this state. So then
we she kept it there and then that's when I
knew there was time to move it. After those two years,
I said, Lord, where do I go. We've been now
in Douglas Park for all these shes and we've seen
the changes, and we've seen are some things that we
need to stop making it about our community and make

(13:06):
it about Memphis, right, And so how do we toul
it to say it's Memphis Festival so people won't think
it's just a neighborhood even, No, this is something that
should be celebrated around the world.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Then we moved.

Speaker 6 (13:17):
I moved it, and I ain't say that I moved
it because I'm the leader. I'm unapologetically a leader right here.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Then I moved it to robert Our Church Park.

Speaker 6 (13:27):
And reason why I said that because many people say, well,
the other people, no, no, no, no, I did God
tell me to do what. I don't need no approval, right,
And so I moved it to robert Our Church Park
for one reason only because if she thought fitting to
put a time capsule and robert Our Church Park, she
already knew where she wanted it to be going forward,

(13:50):
right and not only let's talk about the history of
robert Our Church Park.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
They saved mephis come on now.

Speaker 6 (13:55):
So again there was another black band doing absolutely exceptional things.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
That moved the needle for our community.

Speaker 6 (14:03):
And then when we left robert Our Church Park, we
did COVID one year, so I did a virtual festival.
And then after that the world still wasn't open up.
And I said, Lord, where do you want me to go?
And I remember I never went to Nathan Bedford Forest Park.
Never would it because I knew that park wouldn't fit
in for me, right. I didn't eat no park with
nobody on no horse favor.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
No, we ain't finna do it this. But God told
me to go, and I went, and that's where God
said take the next level of the festival.

Speaker 6 (14:30):
That year, benownst to me just being obedient by god
Mother openly, which is the grandmother of Juneteenth. And when
she come I brought up to Memphis that same year,
she called me the Queen of Juneteenth, right, uh huh.
But I did not know that that year it would
become a national holiday. And so now Juneteenth Festival in Memphis,

(14:51):
Tennessee is the only festival in the world that is
actually celebrated all a park that was once name and
buried and was known for a slave park. I'm determined,
queen to change the narrative the way people feel about
my great city, and especially the way they feel about
the people that look like me.

Speaker 9 (15:11):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
I love that I talk a lot too. I know
that's all right.

Speaker 10 (15:15):
You like me, Commissioner, How did you get her security
security today? You know, how did you get involved with it?

Speaker 8 (15:28):
Well, I tell you anything that this sister does. I'm
there because she's always been there for us in our community.
And one of the things we did back in January,
we brought together about three hundred men at the Bill
Street landing three hundred men in Impact and so this
week was gun violence Prevention Week, and so we were
saying we wanted to bring the men together again around

(15:49):
several of the issues we talked about, one being public
safety and some of the violence in our community. And
so to Lisa opened up the door to say, hey,
we can have a pounder discussion of men. And so
we put all the action out to those three hundred
men to go get three hundred more men and show
up at the Health Science Park on Saturday, June the seventh,
right the seventh, for the men's panel that we're gonna have.

(16:11):
So we're gonna be discussing public safety, public education, some
of the crime that's in our community, violence, and some
solutions around that. And it's a perfect time and we're
right in the midst of budget with the kind of commission.
So we want to say to these men to call
the action is, let's show up at these county meetings,
sending meetings, and when we put these items on there
as a Commissioner. Well, I can write the resolution, but

(16:32):
if I don't have the support, we can't get it done.

Speaker 9 (16:35):
And so hopefully we rally this community behind.

Speaker 8 (16:38):
Put a real strategic public safety plan to address crime
and violence in our communities.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Oh wow, I love that. I love that, And go
back to you, doctor Tulisa. Moving over there to the park, and.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
It's fitting because now, as you said, Nathan's not there anymore,
he gone gone.

Speaker 6 (16:59):
I tell people, I laugh. I made because I couldn't
tell my boy because they all thought it was crazy.
So the Lord told me, don't tell nobody. So when
everybody found out we was moving, everybody found the same
time on the Prince because I called a press conference.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
And the next day they saw a chiseling a young
man part. Wow, yes, he's no longer there. I love
that we're changing the narrative.

Speaker 6 (17:21):
My little nieces and nephews in this city will not
ride down Union Avenue and say, mama, what is that
statue for?

Speaker 7 (17:28):
Now?

Speaker 2 (17:28):
They're gonna ride down you, Unaverty said, Mamma, you remember
how much fun we had over there.

Speaker 9 (17:32):
That's what we're doing.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
We're changing the narrative everywhere we go.

Speaker 9 (17:35):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
If you've just tuned in this morning. We are talking
to Hey, he got Memphis talking.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Not Melisa Franklin is here, Shelby County Commissioner Charlie Caswell.
We're talking about June Tiev. We're gonna tell you all
the exciting things that's gonna happen. If you have a
question or two four my guests, we invite you to
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eight three three five three five nine three four.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Two will get you in to us. You're listening to
dou w d i A The Bev Jonson Show.

Speaker 11 (18:34):
Don't go away. The Bev Johnson Show returns after these messages.

Speaker 7 (19:02):
I'm telling you to just.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Shoving show. Good morning and welcome back to w d
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Speaker 4 (19:23):
We are talking with the amazing, as she said, doctor
Thelisa Franklin, CEO of the Memphis Juneteenth Festival. Shelby County
Commissioner Charlie Caswell is here. Lady and gentlemen, I'm going
to our phone lines to talk with you.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Good morning to you, blatastic Well Johnson. How you doing,
I'm doing fine, Norman? How are you?

Speaker 12 (19:48):
You know what I'm broadcasting. I know you got two
blackcastic talking out living room.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yes I do, Yes, I do, Yeah, you do.

Speaker 12 (19:56):
I'll tell you two of the most powerful outgoing I'll
reaching people in this city.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yes, yes, Frank, she fight, Yeah, she won't fight.

Speaker 12 (20:08):
On fire every time I see us. He don't fight
every time I see I can find um from the smoke,
you know. And and and doctor Reverends has to uh
Charlie Caswell. Man, I don't know what else to say
about this brother. He man, he's been on the ground
since before he ever got an office. Yeah, it's just

(20:28):
an honor, man, just honor to have people like those
two people in their bed because they really do the work.
And they both have been doing the work long before
they ever started running for offices, holding positions and doing
anything else. I have always known them to do the
work in the community. So, man, I'm just proud to
be a part of their team and follow their leadership
because they're doing the work. That's that's you know, That's

(20:51):
about all I can say about them. They do the work.
They don't just talk, they don't just brag, but they
do the work. So and I just thank you, brother
Old Publics for being sponsors and supporters of the African Village.
Always anytime we call them and need something be up,
They're always there. Never pass a word, just say what
you need when, and they make it happen. So, man,

(21:13):
I just love y'all and I appreciate y'all so much.
Keep up the great work. And you know there's anything
we can do with the village. You know we're there.
We're gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Thank you, Thank you so much, Thank.

Speaker 12 (21:23):
You, Thank you, Bell.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Bye bye, Hey, captain, Hey, captain.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
All right, good morning everyone, good morning, doing well, captain.

Speaker 13 (21:33):
Thanks for taking my call then, but listen, uh you
know I tell Bell Johnson she hied and I never
liked her, but I love her, And I said, I'm like, man, boy,
I can't got so many boyfriends because I.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Can have to stand in a line.

Speaker 14 (21:47):
Now.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
This today's a franklin lady.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Man.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
I don't know where in the world you're coming from,
a little lady, but you know what you want me
over today because one thing I've been saying bad about you.
I was Glenn John's bodyguard and her dj up in
the Douglas Community crop area for a long time. I
was the last one before she passed away. I was
DJing for under the Provisions, and I talked bad about
you and everybody else that's business that didn't come down

(22:14):
there to the Douglas park as Street up because I
mean I worked Ms Peaches died. I was up there
doing the parade for him. So I've been djailing a
long time doing the thing I was forming a police
officer do all that. But man, this lady here today,
she kind of won me over. Doctor Johnson. She won
me over because I've been bad mounting saying what's all

(22:35):
she took? And how all she running her mouth doing something?
But then when she telling her accolade and her credits
and all.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
So you know what, I'm so glad that doctor Tealisa
gave the history because people talk and they don't know
if they don't tell.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah, that's it. She did it today.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
She did.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
If she never do it again. You broadcast this thing
for all those that work or whatever didn't hear it.
I'm begging them, please pull it up, because this is
a good one because you talk about people that you
don't know, and you're talking about what you don't know.
I'm going by what they said. They said this, They
said that and the people in the neighborhood sitting back
a day, just sitting there and nothing. I said, you

(23:13):
all are doing that. But then I supported it from
the first Gump team when I found out what it
was about the black people in Texas not knowing about
the slavery was over, and I got happy about telling everybody,
do you know there's a day on the calendar? To you, lady,
those people are still in slavery and didn't know it,
and so I educated about it. And she's like me.
I asked questions, especially young people, because they think it's

(23:36):
just some fun thing. Come look at a band, this,
that and the other. But then somebody's got to continue
to challenge them with education and everything. Doctor and mister
Reverend cash, well, you're a man. I've been watching looking.
They don't know where you're supposed to be and what
God got for you. But brother, you ain't at the
end at all. You in the middle of it. And
I mean you playing bodyguard security today. But God got

(24:00):
big things for you. And man, you're gonna keep growing
because we see a lot of folks skipping town doing whatever.
The Memphis is here, We're gonna be here. And when
y'all took that park back. I was there when they
took this bag out. I'm at everything. I'm on a
motorcycle on I'm trying to vote somewhere. I'm there watching
looking because I got old. But the same time, I said,
we gotta hand these torches, and ma'am, I kept telling

(24:21):
Glenn John, who are you handing the torch to?

Speaker 4 (24:27):
Well?

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Now you know you, now you know, captain.

Speaker 15 (24:30):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Now I see it. I can blow it up and
talk about the music of Memphis because they're gonna really
do it, and I'm gonna be that every day they
got it. I'm gonna be in Douglass well, so I'm
gonna be at all others. Thanks for the Lord, but
much y'all continue on. Just wanted to say that wasn't
ask no question, but come in you all, carry on.
You're doing good. You got soldiers behind you with of y'all.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Thank you, Captain going doctor Franklin, thank you so much. Captain.

Speaker 6 (24:53):
You don't know what that means to me for you
to say that statement, because a lot of people have
made a lot of noise and that loud noise wasn't correct.
But the Lord told me to stand still and watch
and I'm watching the Lord do what he do.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
But you know my job.

Speaker 6 (25:08):
And Glenn has known me for many years because she's
seeing some things I was doing behind the scenes. And
nobody knew my name, but they knew my work. But
I feel like it was in my It was my
job to take care our community. And I just want
people to know I'm from Douglas. I have a home
in Douglas. My church is in Douglas. I make sure, Yeah,
my church is in Douglas. I'm a church sixteen eighty

(25:30):
or screet one street over from the park. Granddaddy started.
My uncle Daddy's senior pastor, and I'm.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
An executive assistant. But our church just not a church.
Our church is.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
I have a free summer camp. I've been taking care
of the kids for years. I was making sure I'm
buying things for the children in the community. I have
a full pantry because I know we're in a full desert.
Don't nobody know the work that I do in secret
because God said He's gonna openly reward me. But it's
very funny that many people have so much to say.
And when all these other June teams started, like for orange, right,

(26:00):
they called me. I gave them everything they needed educational
wise to be successful, and I write them a chick
because I believe in so and where I want to go,
because then some people have to sew into me. Because
any reason why we even started June teenth to move
it to the first week this week, because I wanted
to give an opportunity for all the other June teams

(26:21):
to be well well visited, because I.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Was gonna ask you that question why you're not having
it around juneteen, Because it's imperative. We are the one
that the city and the county. We're the official festival.

Speaker 6 (26:33):
But for me, if you go on our Memphis Juneteenth website,
it ain't about a to Lisa.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
You can go in there and find June teenth all
over Memphis.

Speaker 6 (26:40):
Because I'm all about how do we pull Memphis together
and not work as a silo. What I noticed last
year there was too many Junie teams going on at
the same time, and can I just be little ethic?
It was too many black folk fight for black folk
for no good reason. Right, So I'm gonna get out
the fight and I'm gonna show you how we work together.
And that's what I'm like can I bring everybody to

(27:00):
the table, and if we all gonna be preaching the
message of Juneteenth, June team should be about unity, not
the vision, and not not competition.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Baby.

Speaker 6 (27:08):
I don't compete with nobody. I complete them. And that's
one thing I'm dedicated to doing. Regardless of what people say,
if they know my heart, there is nothing.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
That I won't to do for my community.

Speaker 6 (27:19):
I had a hate mail came to me and I
laugh and I told Charlie, I have these billboards all
over the sea right And one man said, he said,
don't you have something better to do with your money?

Speaker 4 (27:29):
Baby?

Speaker 2 (27:29):
How you gonna tell me to spend my money? God
been good to me.

Speaker 6 (27:32):
God's been good to me over and above, because he says,
took me. My mama had five children, bill five different
baby daddies. She was on crack all my life. But
to eighteen years ago. My brothers got masters degrees because
I made sure that was gonna be successful. Because I
made a determination in my life, everything under me gonna

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be successful.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
It doesn't matter what zip code I come from, it
doesn't matter.

Speaker 6 (27:57):
And I serve I have a home indugment because I
loved others and I got homes all over the city.
But wherever I want to lay my head, my best head,
I laid it in dogs because I ain't scared of
my community. And too many people that get where they
need to be and they forget that community.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
I'm not gonna ever forget my community. My church is
in my community.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
I serve, I play, I worship, and I love on
the folks that don't even like me, because God is
a god of love.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Captain, thank you.

Speaker 6 (28:23):
Here's my public number, Tay. Anybody want to ask me question,
don't don't hear the Romans. Baby, I'm all about I
Let's be clear about it. Let's talk about it. Bell,
I've got some talking she let me talk. Nine o
one two eight one six three three.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Seven is my number. Let's set the recordstrat baby.

Speaker 6 (28:38):
I'm about unifying our community and building up the people
that look like me, because I know what it looks
like for nobody to believe in me. But God believed
in me. He give me now a village of believe
in me. So, baby, I'm unapologetically to Lisa. All right,
doctor the Lisa now, doctor you're right right, tell the Lord,

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thank you, So tell us about this wonderful festival that's
coming up. You're coming to be yours this weekend.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yes, we're here. Okay, let's talk.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
About all right, y'all Friday, it's a healthy wellness I
told you I'm all about healthy wellness. Come out and
get your free exams, come out to score health and
get you HIV testing.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
I love my community.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
CDC has partner with them, so you'll also get an
opportunity to get a free gift card because we know
sometimes our communities is centivized, right, we need something to
help us get what we need. Uh, there's gonna be
live music, Black Love Live. Who don't love Black Love Live.
You normally have to pay a whole lot of money
to see Courtney, Little Jay Buck and Jerald Rich is
a baby.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Oh yes, ma'am. And I told you we invested. I'll
be paid, Hey, Commissioner.

Speaker 9 (29:45):
Those my boyfriends, yeah, okay, I'm some good guys.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, we're sharing the same that's all right.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
So y'all, we got Black Love Live that's hitting, and
then we have a car show and we got something
further chill to do. Then we also on that Saturday morning,
it's all about the men. We got the men of impact.
But we also have all day long grateful vendors. We
got over sixty vendors from around the world, not just
in Memphis. I will tell you if you come and

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you would have to go through security because I'm not
playing on all of y'all because y'all are not gonna
mess up our good thing, right, And so we're thankful
for the mobs fifty five Shelby County Sheriff Department. We're
thankful for Memphis Police, and we thank you for ut
I'm all about how do we keep our people safe? Yes,
and we have a great time, but I'm super excited

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about the black music.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Right.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
We have all these great music acts, right, but we
brought in nationally cut close changing faces, Eddie Valero.

Speaker 6 (30:46):
We have so many great acts that we brought into
the city because many of our people need an opportunity
to see something great. And so I ain't just doing
it to do it. I do it with a purpose
and the purpose of how do we build folk? And
I'm telling everybody, do not come to this part and
do not experience the outdoor Museum. You're gonna take a
walk from We do it every single year. You take

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a walk from from slavery to walking out to freedom.
I need you to understand we put a lot of
energy and efforts where Mormon people have to.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Go and pay for these exhibits. God allowed us to
make sure we do this exhibit. There's you know.

Speaker 6 (31:24):
I have plenty coloring books. I wrote stuff to make
sure our children, whether you one year old or one
hundred old, you cannot tell me you don't know about
juneteen because I'm putting it in your face.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
I love it. I love it. I go back to
our phone lines to talk with you.

Speaker 12 (31:38):
Hi, caller, I call her, Hey.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
I'm doing fabulous. How are you?

Speaker 16 (31:47):
I'm fantastic?

Speaker 2 (31:48):
All right.

Speaker 16 (31:49):
I want to say to doctor, to Lisa Franklin, this
is Tyler. So long, yes, ma'am. Even in the floor industry,
you've been doing it just that long. I do want
to command you continuously, and you ain't stop yet, but

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keep on going, sirs.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Thank you, my brother, thank you.

Speaker 6 (32:13):
Tyler had a floor shop. I was at florist for
thirty years and I looked up to him and he
helped me out so many times.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (32:20):
So it's people like that that makes me feel good
to know that my working had been in vain they
saw me when I didn't see myself.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Thank you, Tyler, and thank you for listening.

Speaker 16 (32:30):
Love you your work all right of you too.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Bye bye, doctor Lisa.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
So it's two days, Friday and Saturday of this week,
of this week. So what time do you start on Friday?

Speaker 6 (32:43):
Ten to ten Friday and Saturday ten o'clock in the morning,
at ten o'clock at night. It's something going on the
stage all day long, vendas all week. We even got
rides and all the fun stuff for the kid olds.
We got something for daddy. Come and look at them
fine hot rods and then it gets them. Not from
a beach commissioner, Charlie Cadswell, maybe that's something for everybody.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
From ten am to ten pm. Parking is all around.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
Because I was going to ask you how about the
house the parking, because I know where that park is
because across the street from my Southwest.

Speaker 6 (33:14):
Yes, yes, yes, so we're grateful for Southwest. We usualize
their part or their garage. Then there is another park line,
there's street parking. We have everything around you. We cannot
make an excuse to say I don't want to go
down there because they't no parking. You go everywhere else
were ain't no parking. It is imperative that we show
up for us because I'm gonna always show up for

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my people.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
Right and so people know who may be listening for
the first time, it's the Health Science Park.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Yes, so we just changed the name to Medical District
Park for many people know.

Speaker 6 (33:47):
So it went from Nathan Bedford Forest Park because you know,
change an areative to Health Sciences Park. But we're right
in the middle of the Medical District now. Now it's
Medical District Park, seven ninety nine Madison Avenue.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Parking is all around the building.

Speaker 6 (34:01):
Remember you will be checking no guns, no knives, no
hoodies in a hundred degree weather, and no.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
No mad babe.

Speaker 6 (34:11):
The pl team they playing in the park, don't play
no games because I love Jesus.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
I love Jesus for real, for real. But it's ten am.
It's free a mission. And then there was another meal.
Oh she took it downtown and she charged it.

Speaker 15 (34:23):
Baby.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
I ain't never charged a dime to help my people. Never, never, never.

Speaker 9 (34:29):
Okay, I might put a charge on a.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
Not if anybody you're be like, no, sister, give it
away more, give it away, give it away more. Because
Commissioner Charlie cas Well, I can save this bell. He
has been consistently My brother and my friend him and
Touchett say, I got some people that has been in
my corner publicly because what I have noticed some people
say that in your corner privately, but talk about your

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public baby.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
What you see is what you get with me. And
I thank God for you, brother, I do and I
love you. Yes, yeah, w D I a high caller.

Speaker 12 (35:05):
Hey belly, how you doing?

Speaker 2 (35:08):
I'm doing fabulous? How are you?

Speaker 9 (35:10):
Brother?

Speaker 17 (35:12):
You got two great people on there. Uh this doctor Franklin.
I know a person rich is k Phipps. You know
I was the former p O with Crimin Coot Church
office and doctor Kasser. You got two good people right there. Sure,
and I'm so uh. I am so glad to hear it.
And I am a big I celebrate junior team. I
have my family. I tell him, I don't do fourth

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of July. I wasn't three then.

Speaker 12 (35:35):
My people were free.

Speaker 17 (35:36):
I believe in June tem so I am. I am
looking forward to it. Doctor Franklin, I will be there.
You know, I hadn't seen you in a while.

Speaker 7 (35:44):
You know.

Speaker 17 (35:45):
Now I'm working with MPD now, but I follow you
and I followed a commissioner cast, and I like the
work that you all are actually doing in the community.
I can honestly say that those are two people that
I know personally. I was working for the Chevy Care.
Keep up the great work, and I look forward to
this event.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (36:05):
I love you.

Speaker 9 (36:07):
Get them people signed up a neighborhood watch.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Yes, yes, all right, thank you, and.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
So again, so Commissioner, So Saturday is when the men
is coming. Tell again our listeners have just tuned in
some of these guys.

Speaker 8 (36:21):
So, yeah, we got Commissioner Michael Lowry, mster Real Richardson
who's a business man, community leader in our community, and some.

Speaker 6 (36:29):
Other Stephen Ougaway that's talking about HIV but in our community.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
And then we have brother Mohammad that was MOS fifty five.

Speaker 9 (36:37):
Yeah okay, yeah, and some of the issuests.

Speaker 8 (36:39):
Like I said, we'll be talking about is public safety
again around our crime and violence and how we p
doue gun violence prevention again. This is Gun Violence Prevention Week.
And so on Saturday we asking men again, y'all come
out in your orange shirt. I know Talsa's gonna also
have some orange shirts there on just the color that
they represent in Gun violence Prevention Week, and we just

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won't just again to our community to put those guns down.
Call men to actions around mentoring young men. One of
the things that we're doing. We got about twelve churches
that signed up already all summer alone. We're doing sport leagues,
basketball leagues from eight o'clock in the morning on satad
Is all the way to midnight, working with Pastor Leon Jones,
pastor to Real Manga and other pastors that are coming

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together to say, hey, we want to provide a safe, healthy,
nurturing environment for your youth. So we need more men
to be mentors and coaches this summer. Apporting to these
young men. We see what's happening in our community. We
know there's a generational gap in a breakdown of any
of these kids who've just been in unsafe communities, toxic
community communities. We want to say we got healthy men

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in our city.

Speaker 9 (37:41):
Let's stand up.

Speaker 8 (37:42):
You know sad that we see so many times that
one percent of young people that's doing the crime, but
we miss out on the other ninety nine percent of
those who are not and who are doing great things
in our community, and that's what we want to showcase
at this event. We just appreciate doctor to Lisa Franklin
for allowing us that platform on this week to be
able to bring the light to me in that are

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doing great things in our city and how they can
connect with us.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (38:05):
I love that. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
And another thing, Doctor Lisa, I love what you said.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
And I always advocate for health and I tell my
listeners any time you hear about a health screening, because
a lot of people can't afford to go to dak
exactly go to the health screening and so you're gonna
have that on Friday.

Speaker 6 (38:22):
Absolutely. Even I'm grateful for Walmart. They come out and
make sure for our eyes. There's a lot of people
don't understand the power and many of our people that
look like us and has diabetes and high blood pressure
and that affects your eyes. Right, Because I go out
and I do work for Mid South Transplant Foundation talking
about transplantation because for of my family members I live

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in because of transplantation and one is waiting. So I
know the power of transplantation. There's a little thing that
we as a people sometimes just don't have the money
and we may have insurance, but we don't have a
fIF twenty five dollar copaid right, so we want to
all those myths come out there and get what you need.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Families, Let's stop sitting there way for it to happen.

Speaker 6 (39:06):
Some of this that we can prevent by getting the
knowledge that we need, because knowledge is power, and you
never know you may meet that has the answer to
your problem.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
You absolutely correct if you're tuned in, Doctorteralisa Franklin is
here Sherby County Commissioner Charlie Caswell getting ready for this
weekend Memphis June teenth Festival. Question or two for our
guests before they get out of here. Nine zero one,
five three five, nine three four two eight hundred five

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zero three, nine three four two eight three three five
three five nine three four two are the numbers to
double you d Ia the Bev ju Say Show.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
You're listening to Tennessee Radio Hall of Famer Bev Johnson
on w D I.

Speaker 7 (40:05):
An you did?

Speaker 4 (40:22):
I mean?

Speaker 1 (40:31):
I'm telling him everyone.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Because talking.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Everyone and we're talking with doctor the Lisa Franklin, the
CEO of the Memphis Junete Festival, Shelby County Commissioner Charlie Caswell,
and it is going to be a celebration this this
weekend at the Medical District Park.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
I'm glad you told me that. I thought it was
still called the Health Science. It just changed just a
few months ago. It just changed it.

Speaker 4 (41:08):
Okay, so you're ready for you and I love doctor
to Lisa what you said earlier. Yes, there are a
lot of June teenth celebrations going on and this, but yeah,
June is a month everybody can have a celebration.

Speaker 6 (41:22):
And what I understand, and I'm grateful for our mayor.
I love my mayor, Mayor paul A Young. I was
sharing with him that it's imperative that we know we
have a challenge in our community with transportation.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
So I salute everybody that's having a Juneteenth in our community.

Speaker 6 (41:39):
But I knew it was easier to put it in
one location where people can go to one website and say,
whether you're in Orange Mound, you go over there. If
you're in White Haven, go over here. If you're in Douglas,
gover wherever you need to go, go and support and
celebrate June teeth. And so there's not a problem that
if you can't get there and you're having a transportation issue,
nowhere is Memphis got you with Juneteenth, and that's why

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we split it up. Now you have mine this weekend,
and there's something in every weekend every week about even
Cordova is having something. And so regardless of where you
live in the city of Memphis, you have an opportunity
to celebrate, commemorgate, and make sure you get educated about
juneteen and every one of them I give them if
they'll take it, everybody, I get it.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
I'm okay with it. But if they want the educational.

Speaker 6 (42:25):
Material, we sponsor the material for them. So if there's
somebody out there that's doing the Juneteenth, if I can
say this bad sure, make sure you reach out to
me because I want to give you a packet of
education and stuff if you want it to share. And
then if I don't know about your June team, let
me know so we can make sure it's listed on
the website. So when people go to Memphis Juneteenth, they'll
see everybody's juneteen because we're looking for being inclusive. Now,

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what's the website Memphis Juneteenth dot com. Again, that's Memphis
Juneteenth dot com.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
Oh good good, and commission Eric has where you wanted
to mention something that you're doing this evening.

Speaker 8 (43:00):
And again thank you and thank to Lisa for her
leadership too in our community. Tonight, I'm partnering with Cheva
County Saeva County Community Serve Office of Community Servey. We're
doing the rentals right clinic. If you're having problems with
your landlord, if you want to know more about rights
of the rentals at the Dwelling Place, thirty thirty four
Old Austin P Highway are We're going to be there

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from five pm to seven pm. So anybody want to
come out today. We got a bunch of partners that's
going to be out the works, the District Attorney Office
and so many others. United Way that's partnering with us
tonight to make sure that we get rentals the information
they need. We get calls all the time about people
but getting put out. We know home values are going up,
people going up on rent so we want to help

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people understand their rights when it comes to their landlords.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
I love that and again that time tonight to sit.

Speaker 8 (43:47):
Five o'clock to seven o'clock at thirty thirty four Old
Austin P Highway that's at the Dwelling Place.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
Okay, I got that down in there, and I'll make
sure I announce it again before I leave to thank you.
And so as we get ready to celebrate Friday and Saturday,
doctor Lisa.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 6 (44:04):
This Friday and Saturday is the Memphis June teenth Festival
at seven ninety nine Madison Avenue in the Medical District Park,
Free emission, free emission, free emission. And then on next
week we will be having our Freedom Luncheon, our Memphis
Juneteenth Freedom Luncheon. I am excited for. Our musical guest
is the Brown Four from American Idol. They will be there,

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and then our keynote speaker we'll being none other than
the Rolling Martin. Y'all apples actor. I need every apple
man to be buying a table, y'all a, he's an
apple man, but at the whole Divine nine supposed to
be representing. Yes, you know they're gonna be there. They're
gonna be there. But you know, last year I wanted

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Rolling really bad last year because I kept saying, there
is a voice, that we need a voice.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Last year we did Goddess. We brought a man in
from Ghana and so we were they're able to showcase
how slavery is happening in Gone.

Speaker 9 (45:04):
So we did that.

Speaker 6 (45:05):
So this year, and with all the information about what
went on with Tyree Nichols and so many different things
social injustice and social.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Unrest in our city, I was like, who can speak
to it?

Speaker 6 (45:16):
Because you know, like a kid, sometimes a person listened
to an outsider before they hear insider, right, And so
I said, Lord, who do I have?

Speaker 2 (45:23):
And then he says Roland Mardin And I was like God,
and he said what I say?

Speaker 6 (45:30):
And so, of course, thank god we were able to
get him to come to Memphis. He's a voice that
I think we need in our community. He's a national
international voice, yes, but I know he's gonna say something
because we as an African American culture, we can continue
to work on being more unified. We got to understand
if we don't take care our people, who's gonna take

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care of us?

Speaker 2 (45:52):
That's right?

Speaker 4 (45:53):
And so with that luncheon, how do people can go
on the website to get information or tickets or how
do they do that?

Speaker 6 (45:58):
All that on the website juneteam dot com if you
want to buy a table by all means, you know,
I'm an open book. I've had the same number since
I was eighteen years old. I tell folks, I'll oh
no good, I answer if a call nine zero one
two eight one six three three seven. Again, my number
is ninet zero one two eight one six three three seven.
If you would like to purchase a table for our

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June Team Freedom luncheon on next week, June twelfth, at
the Holiday in University of Memphis.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
I know they clothing, but we're still in there. Before
they close, they.

Speaker 6 (46:30):
Saving the bits for last June Team baby, So y'all
make sure y'all calls. If you just get a regular ticket,
you can just go online and buy your one ticket.
But if you want a table, by all means, I
want to make sure that we spotlight you in our
souvenir book that you sponsored a table to help the
cause of moving Juneting forward.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
And we're super excited.

Speaker 6 (46:50):
We got a group of young people that's gonna be
at a table because it's imperative that I make sure
our young people get this information. Yeah, because how can
we do a month high generational We bring them to
the table and stop keeping them on the media.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (47:04):
I love that, and again I concur with you. Tell
all you Alpha men out there. Yeah, y'all, y'all go
and support your brother. Yeah yeah, I like my dad.
Commissioner was an alpha man. He graduated from lemore On College.
It was lemoy In College. So you all for man
before you go, let.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Me w D I a high caller, Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 17 (47:28):
How are you today?

Speaker 2 (47:28):
I'm doing well today. How are you?

Speaker 3 (47:31):
I'm good.

Speaker 13 (47:32):
I would just like to make a suggestion.

Speaker 12 (47:34):
I know I don't have a dog in fight right now,
but I might.

Speaker 17 (47:39):
Have someone that.

Speaker 12 (47:40):
But I would like our children to be able to
sit down and look at some of the black pioneers,
some of the important things that we've.

Speaker 17 (47:49):
Contributed to this nation.

Speaker 12 (47:51):
I think that their self worked is so low some
of them.

Speaker 16 (47:55):
They need to see this.

Speaker 12 (47:56):
What do you think about that?

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Doctor?

Speaker 6 (48:00):
So, you know, we make sure that we bring young
people to the table. If anybody know, I love young people.
I have a nonprofit called the CEO Academy. It's chief
executive officer. I teach my children. I teach my young
they are the chief executive officer of their own life.
And so but I make sure it's imperative that we
bring people to the table. Like a Charlie Casual State

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represented or just common people that people say, Oh they
don't have a big name, but they got a word,
they got something to transform somebody's life.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
And so we're always bringing young people to the table.

Speaker 6 (48:31):
I'm always trying to figure out how do we make
our young people not only just be there, but be seen, heard,
and me making sure we acknowledge that they're in the
room because a lot of our young people, I'll tell
you bell that I believe in my heart of hearts,
a lot of them are having challenges because they just
want to be seen. I have an eighteen year old
and I'm so grateful that he's a full time student,

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he has three businesses, but a lot of times we
have these conversations like baby, why didn't he said, Mama,
they just want to be seen? And I said, I
thank God for his village. My son has a village,
but every kid don't have a village.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
Right.

Speaker 6 (49:03):
But what Trili, a Commissioner Castway, was doing. He's even
giving the young boys a village with men of impact.
And that's why if you have young boys and we
want to bring them, get them out there on Saturday
morning and let them sit there and have conversation, have
a popsicle with one of these men afterwards and have conversation.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
That's what we have to do. We got to stop
saving all of our children are bad. We may have
one percent of our children our challenge.

Speaker 6 (49:27):
You know why they're challenged because they don't have anybody
in their life that can push them. My brother said
something to the other. He said, sous, thank you for
showing us some different. They didn't want to go to college. Well,
it was two reasons. I had to take them to
college because I really was already broke trying to take
care of but I need to be on the dorm.
But the great Mississippi Valley. But what he did for them,
they didn't want to go. But then they came back

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and said, suss the same folk that was doing what
when they left it? I said, baby, I know, but
they couldn't be you. So somebody got to take the
torch of their family and change their family. There's a
young man that I hired. I didn't ask some doing
for free for juneting DJ Swift. He's a DJ locally
here in the city of Memphis. He told me something
and it broke me down to tears. Yesterday when I

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called him, I said son, I got to make sure
you can tell me some of my money.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Too, because I need to help you. He said, Miss Lisa,
you'll all went up and I said, oh, yes, I do.
I gotta pay you some.

Speaker 6 (50:18):
He said, Miss Lisa, you don't know the times you
will come and get me at the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
You was saving my life. I said, what do you mean, boy?
He said, you were saving my life because you came
and got me out of the neighborhood. That was times, Bab.

Speaker 6 (50:29):
When I would drive through the neighborhood, I knew that
was Graystreet, crypt I knew they was bloods.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
I knew where that was.

Speaker 6 (50:35):
It was like when I pulled my truck up, everybody
held it had that jump in.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
Son.

Speaker 6 (50:40):
And I'm taking y'at at the neighborhood and I'm gonna
have a conversation with you. But it shouldn't be only
me doing it. If it's a charge that our whole
community need to do it, stop wait for somebody else
to fix our own kids.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
We can do it.

Speaker 6 (50:52):
One person can change one child if we stop saying
how bad they are and how great they are.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
I never forget I was driving, I.

Speaker 6 (51:00):
Was walking down the street or the scroller with my
baby brother right, And I never forget this one lady,
she was on the porch bel and she said, look
at that fast little girl.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Well she didn't know I want no fast little girl.

Speaker 6 (51:11):
I was a sister trying to take out my brother.
But what happened if she would have pulled me to
the side and say, baby, what can I do to
help you? So we never know how we impact somebody,
cause I ain't forgot it.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
Now.

Speaker 6 (51:21):
I'm fifty years young, but I'm making my business. If
I see a little young girl pregnant, I said, baby,
differ between me and you. You got caught an idea,
and so what can I do.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
To support you? That's what we gotta do.

Speaker 6 (51:30):
We gotta speak life into our young people. And so
I speaking doom and gloom. I walked out of one
of my offices one day and a young boy had
a poosh ships to mask and a long gone long
was I ain't never seen. And I said, hey son, baby,
how you doing, sugar? And he said all I'm good, ma'am.
Because he recognized I didn't call him.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
I wasn't afraid of him.

Speaker 6 (51:49):
I said, hey, son, because he needed a mama or
woman to say you're a son. You ain't da da
da dad, You're a son. How can we speak life
into our children? Then we can change the narrative our children.
One thing, I thank God for Charlie Caswell and Pastor
Leon Jones every Friday night at light at night, they're
speaking life and to black men that may don't never
have a father figure or a brother figure that will

(52:11):
speak life. And then we can change the narrative of
our community. But we have to speak life by speaking
doom and gloom. We got to support our mayor. Our
mayor is working his butt off to make mephis better.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Do he get it right?

Speaker 5 (52:24):
No?

Speaker 2 (52:24):
And I tell him. But we can agree to disagree
and disagregree.

Speaker 6 (52:27):
But one thing I can't agree that he's not afraid
to show up with people that look like him and
be there and be a presence for our black little
boys to say one that I too can be the
mayor of Memphis.

Speaker 9 (52:38):
I love it. I love it.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
And for that, for that that listener that just called
doctor Talisi. You also mentioned that she said education history.
You're gonna have a museum there.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
It's there every year. Absolutely bring them and it's free
of charge. Okay, So I tell you get.

Speaker 6 (52:52):
The get all the boys in your car listener and everybody, Yeah,
Saturday morning, bring them to Men of Impact and get impact.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
And then once you leave there, walk in the same part,
go to the museum.

Speaker 6 (53:04):
And you don't know what the Lord may do, that
child may see something. Can I be honest, Bath, I
lived in Douglas all my life, and when I was younger,
I didn't even know why Haven.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Was in Memphis.

Speaker 6 (53:15):
Seriously, because you know why, because we were so poor.
We didn't have nobody to take us chrous and so
we got to start exposing our children for great up
so they can see they can be better. And what
I make it in my poor When I my children
my summer camp, I take them to Benny Hunter, I
take them to Chart because I want them to see
how I fail to eat good.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
Because I'm gonna eat good every day of my life.

Speaker 9 (53:37):
I love it.

Speaker 8 (53:38):
One of the things the listeners said too about the
self esteem of young John Hope O'Brien said that he said,
what you see in African American men is that we
have high confidence low self esteem. Over in Africa, they
got low high self esteem, but low confidence. And so
when you look at it in our communitys we're trying
to put on new shoes, all these Gucci, you know,

(54:00):
nine brand things because we want people to look at us, right,
and we got confidence, but then our self esteem is low.
So again we got to be willing to pull into
these young kids. And she said, one of the topics
we'll be talking about on the panel that was talking
about the verg childhood experience, and we talk about that
trauma that these kids experienced at that early age. Like
she said, the lady said, that fast tailed young girl.
You got to understand, it's not what's wrong with these

(54:22):
young kids, it's what happened to them. But we got
to ask that question what happened if we want to
know and get down to it. Many of these kids
are looking for somebody who's just willing to have that
conversation with them. That's how we change the narrative.

Speaker 4 (54:33):
And it's so right, and you both I agree with
both of you all say that because I think doctor
Lisa and Commission to Cast, well, you know, I taught
thirty two years at Southwest Tennessee Community College and sometimes
after class, you know, a student will stay there. But
they wanted somebody to talk to. And I would talk
to a lot of my students just just talking, you know,

(54:57):
not being there their professor there, but just some that they.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Wanted to talk to. And I see out there in
the streets now they say, miss Johnson, Miss Johnson, you
talk to me, you you know. But I but I
And you're right, somebody needs to talk with Yes, and
that's all they need. That's all they need. Get this
last phone call. I know y'all got the commission. I
got to get out of here. W D I a
high caller?

Speaker 14 (55:22):
Heyn, How you doing?

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Hey common man?

Speaker 12 (55:26):
Hey, yeah, I was listening to your show and hello
to you guess uh ms cass Well.

Speaker 14 (55:30):
And I don't know the.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
Younger doctor Franklin, doctor Lisa Franklin.

Speaker 14 (55:33):
Doctor Franklin, Okay, how are you out? I wanted to
just make a quick comment about some I just heard
her say, doctor Franklin.

Speaker 9 (55:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (55:42):
She mentioned that sometimes kids just want to be recognized
or whatnot. And I really uh connected to that comming
you made. And I'm want to tell you a real
quick story. I went I went to this new church
and uh with my sister. It was her church back here,
uh some years ago. But I was there church, and
I felt, you know, kind of like out of place,

(56:03):
or like I wasn't part of the church or whatever,
you know. And uh, a couple of sons went by,
and the pastor asked me to come up and hold
the place for people to come around and and pay that,
you know, the TAZ and all the officers and all
that kind of stuff. And it made me feel so welcome,
and so, you know, a part of the church from
that point.

Speaker 12 (56:22):
On, you know, and I just begin to feel like
part of the church.

Speaker 14 (56:26):
And I believe, you know, she makes a value point
there when she says, some time these kids wants to
be recognized, they want somebody to talk to or whatnot.
You know, I applaud her for recognize that.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
All right, thank you coming man.

Speaker 4 (56:37):
As we get ready to get out of here, let
me start with shall we County Commissioner, County cas Well,
last words you'd like to say to our listeners again.

Speaker 8 (56:45):
Thank you Belle for being such a stand up person
in our community. It is budget season, so make sure
y'all get into come to these commission meetings. Ye yeah,
and so again, if you want to be as the
Lisa said, you want to be at the table, not
on the me and you, and we want our communities
at the table.

Speaker 9 (57:03):
So stay tuned at what's happening at the count Commission.

Speaker 4 (57:06):
Don't worry, we will Doctor Tealisa Franklin, the CEO of
the Memphis Juneteenth Festival, last words, Well.

Speaker 6 (57:13):
I got to say this for state represented, he said,
tail Bell, I missed my boot, and he told me
to tell Charlie don't get too close.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
So don't get too close.

Speaker 9 (57:21):
To but Bell.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Thank you so much. I stand on your shoulders shoulders.

Speaker 6 (57:25):
I appreciate you, I love you, I value you, and
I see all the things you've done, and you've made
an impact in my life because I run my mouth,
but you know how to run your mouth.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
I love you to everybody's listening, of course. I love God.

Speaker 6 (57:39):
I love you, know that you're amazing. Be at Juneteenth
Memphis Juneteenth dot com. You get the schedule of everything
you need to know there. My public phone number is
nin on one two eight one six three three seven.
If you're having a juneteen festival, we need to listen
on our Memphis Juneteenth because it's imperative to our mayor
that we have an inclusive city that we're all working
together as one. And if you want tickets for rollingd

(58:01):
Mine to be at our Juneteenth lunching, you know what
to do.

Speaker 17 (58:04):
Call me bo I.

Speaker 9 (58:06):
If I can just give yo a shout out.

Speaker 8 (58:09):
When I reached out to him about this, you for
the Samma to make sure that they are engaged. He
made sure, he connected us, invested into that for these
young people to have a safe place all summer. And
so to the faith leaders out there, let's give Paul
Young a handclapped head.

Speaker 9 (58:23):
Connect with us to make sure that we're giving these
kids a safe place.

Speaker 4 (58:26):
He did.

Speaker 12 (58:27):
I love it.

Speaker 9 (58:27):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Thank you, Thank you. You all have been just fabulous guests.
You are welcome anytime.

Speaker 9 (58:33):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (58:34):
All Right, when we come back, more chick chat with me.
Bev Johnson right here on w d i A The
Beth Johnson Show.

Speaker 11 (58:50):
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Speaker 18 (59:34):
Be Justin Show, Bell chompas Memphis, talking at home Away, Helbo,
you go, you go Son't getting.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Ready in time.

Speaker 4 (59:49):
Show.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Let's go Bell j Justin We'll make yourgy by here
wrong jog today, you know, let's go Memphis, Tennessee.

Speaker 15 (01:00:21):
Stax Records was established in nineteen fifty nine by Estelle
Accident and her younger brother, Jim Stewart. It began as
a tiny record store in an old movie theater on
the corner of Macclamore Avenue and College Street in Memphis.

Speaker 9 (01:00:34):
The music it cranked out was rawed down home soul.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
It was called Soulsville, USA.

Speaker 15 (01:00:42):
In nineteen sixty five, former Memphis disc jockey Albell was
hired as executive vice president. With his leadership and writers
like Isaac Hays and David Porter, Stax Records became a
force to be reckoned with and home for many unknown
artists that would become music icons. So let's visit Soldsville.

Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
U S A man on.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
Tramp? What you going tramp?

Speaker 4 (01:01:10):
Now?

Speaker 17 (01:01:11):
I'm just gonna sit at.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
The dock of the base. Than thinking that.

Speaker 9 (01:01:22):
They foundating to just catch after a bad mother?

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Bringing down to.

Speaker 5 (01:01:30):
Go down.

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
Is wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
I don't mean what's see.

Speaker 7 (01:01:38):
What you see is what you get.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Who do what you think you are?

Speaker 15 (01:01:45):
Somebody that's a trip to Soulsville, USA?

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
Yeah, that a hints coming from Memphis, Tennessee and w
d i A for't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Y'all hear that? Yeah, I love that. I love that.
When we come back.

Speaker 4 (01:02:07):
I'll talk to you next right here on double d
i A The Beth jo Say Show.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
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