The Indiana fire disaster in Richmond, Indiana shows how important environmental justice is. Richmond has over 35,000 people, and it's an industrial city. There was a large, massive plume of toxic smoke after a plastics recycling facility exploded in the middle of the city. This caused an overt endangerment of the region. There was a voluntary evacuation order was issued for anyone living within a half-mile radius of the inferno. About 2,000 people fled from their homes. The smoke is toxic according to Indiana State Fire Marshal Steve Jones. This incident comes after industrial pollution events in Love Canal, the Flint water poisoning, and the groundwater contamination of Hinkley, California. Winds are pushing the toxic cloud being emitted from the recycling plant eastward toward the heavily populated area around Dayton, Ohio. This comes after the train derailment disaster in the Midwest at East Palestine, Ohio too. There are the byproducts of vinyl chloride in people's bodies in East Palestine. Residents say that they have exposure to dangerous chemicals. Carcinogens can go into the groundwater and into the air too. We have a problem with how some businesses pollute working-class neighborhoods and have dangerous conditions leading to the deaths of hundreds of workers each year. The BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is another example of a corporation being fined for negligence involving that horrendous situation. Many corporations exploit the lives of workers for the pursuit of profit and control.
The FBI arrested the accused leaker of the classified Pentagon documents in Dighton, Massachusetts. He is charged with serious charges, potentially facing multiple years in prison if he is convicted. This person is only 21 years old. He was part of the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman. His name is Jack Teixeria who shown the documents all over the Internet. He had a social media account in a gamer forum. That forum has teenagers and young adults as members showing a love of guns, comic books, and many displayed racist memes. According to the U.S. Attorney's office, his first court appearance will take place tomorrow in Boston. The FBI's Washington field office and a team of counterintelligence investigators experienced in hunting leaks are involved in the investigation. The documents had intelligence assessments of allies and adversaries, including the state of the war in Ukraine.
Some breaking news is that Rep. Justin Pearson was voted to be reinstituted back to the Tennesse House. This story shows that when people say that the Civil Rights Movement is gone in our time, they are mistaken. The same battles of yesteryear in dealing with racism, discrimination, and economic dislocation continue in our time in 2023. Rep. Pearson gave a passionate speech in Memphis, Tennessee after his reinstatement to the Tennessee House. Even the Governor of Tennessee signed an executive order to strengthen gun background checks and promoted red flag rules. This battle for justice is continuing. We are not at the finish line yet, but we are on the right side of history to advance the principle that every human being born on this Earth is created equal and is entitled to unalienable rights of liberty, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Evil people will never ban every book, they will fail in trying to eliminate real history from being taught in schools, and they will fail period in their neo-fascist agenda.
Yesterday was the Birthday of Brother Peabo Bryson, and he is 72 years old. He is a famous singer of our generation, known for romantic ballads. He was born in Greenville, South Carolina. His contributions to R&B music and soul music are extensive indeed. When he was a child, he lived on his grandfather's farm in Mauldin, South Carolina. His mother inspired him to express a love for music. His mother took the family to concerts of well-known African Americans artists at the time. He sang backup for Al Freeman and the Upsetters, a local Greenville group when he was 14 years old. He worked in the band Moses Billard and the Tex-Town Display along the Chitlin' Circuit. Bryson was gifted as a songwriter too. He had his own song called Underground Music on the Bang label in 1976. His first album was Peabo. His early hits were Feel the Fire in 1977 and Reaching for the Sky in the same year. In 1978, he has songs like I'm So Into You and Crosswinds. One of his great songs were also Can You Stop the Rain, If Ever You're In My Arms Again, etc.
He made romantic love duets with Roberta Flack in 1983 in the album Born to Love. He was also famous for the duet with Regina Belle in the songs Without You and A Whole New World in 1992, which was part of the soundtrack of the Disney animated film Aladdin. By 2018, he released his new album Stand For Love, which was produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The project was released on Jam and Lewis' newly reactivated label Perspective Records. He loves his wife Tanya Boniface (from the English R&B group 411). They have son named Robert, who was born on January 1, 2018. He loves his daughter and his 3 grandchildren. Peabo Bryson reminds a legend of R&B music. I wish Brother Peabo Bryson more Blessings.
By Timothy
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