"Walk Away Renée" is a song written by #MichaelBrown, Bob Calilli, and Tony Sansone for the band #theLeftBanke, released as a single in July 1966. #SteveMartinCaro is featured on lead vocals. It spent 13 weeks on the US charts, with a top spot of No. 5. The song has been widely considered a quintessence of the #baroquePop genre. As musician #MarshallCrenshaw explained, "There's something about '#WalkAwayRenee' that's one of the most powerful songs I've ever heard.
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#OnThisDay in 2015, #MichaelBrown, American rock keyboardist and songwriter (Left Banke - Walk Away Renee; Pretty Ballerina), died of heart failure at 65. 
#RIP
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A slightly older cover, from 15 years ago, by Shayliff aka Shay Bailiff. Solo on acoustic guitar. Pretty good crescendo.
Bonus cover: Shay Bailiff along with Michael Brown, 9 years ago. Includes harmonies as well as extra musical accompaniment. The crescendo is even better.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-stain-not-easily-removed/
#CRTisHistory: a #politicalparty would not only defend multiple #criminalconspiracies, but also embrace the #lawyers at their center. The #legalprofession needs to make significant #structural changes to prevent another #attack on #democracy in the future.
Democracy DocketA Stain Not Easily RemovedFrom Marc | Republican lawyers are back in the news and are bringing disgrace to the party and profession.
#WhitePriveledge = No #RuleOfLaw: elected #prosecutors who promised #progressive law #enforcement, focusing as much on #policeaccountability as (#dogwistles like) #toughoncrime. Kim Gardner, elected in 2016 following the fatal police shooting of #MichaelBrown in the suburb of #Fergusonpledging to reduce #massincarceration and promote #rehabilitation over #punishment.
ProPublicaA Detective Sabotaged His Own Cases Because He Didn’t Like the Prosecutor. The Police Department Did Nothing to Stop Him.Across the country, police have undermined and resisted reform. To protest a prosecutor, one detective was willing to let murder suspects walk free, even if he’d arrested them and believed that they should be behind bars.
#Plantation #constitution #BananaRepublic outcomes: The immediate question of whether #SouthernStates can #gerrymander away the political power of #Blackcitizens, now rests squarely on the shoulders of alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh.
#ProblemOfTheColorLine #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct #AbolishTheElectoralCollege
#jan6 #MichaelBrown #BrokenTaillightPolicing #InnocenceProject #reparations
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/voting-rights-brett-kavanaugh-alabama/
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The NationThe Future of the Voting Rights Act Depends on... Brett KavanaughA new effort by Alabama to gut the VRA was clearly inspired by a recent Kavanaugh opinion. Now the state is appealing to the Supreme Court—and Kavanaugh—to help seal the deal.
#Plantation #constitution #BananaRepublic outcomes: #Republicans won the #popularvote in only 1/8 presidential elections, and yet have had three #ElectoralCollege victories. The #Senate gives far more power to small, rural states… it’s made even less #democratic by the #filibuster. An unaccountable #SupremeCourt
#jan6 #MichaelBrown #BrokenTaillightPolicing #ProblemOfTheColorLine #InnocenceProject #reparations
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/opinion/columnists/democracies-minority-rule.html .
The New York Times · Opinion | The Authors of ‘How Democracies Die’ Overestimated the Republicans
#JohnLewisVotingRightsAct: community members are urging residents to #elect #leaders who will #protectBlacklives
KCUR9 years after Michael Brown's killing, Ferguson's 'sacred ground' evokes calls for progress
#abolishthepolice #AbolishQualifiedImmunity #SCOTUStermlimits
The Washington Post launched its Police Shooting Database in 2014, after police in Ferguson, Missouri shot #MichaelBrown, 24; before then, such specific #data was #inaccessible to the #public. We now know that U.S. police shoot roughly 1,000 people per year—the highest rate among “developed” nations—and Black Americans constitute at least 25 to 50 percent of victims, despite comprising only 12.4 percent of the U.S. population.
Psychology TodayCan the Stress of Biased Policing Cause Physical Disability?Internalized structural trauma can trigger acute psychosomatic stress.
#Tyrenichols #GeorgeFloyd #BreonnaTaylorWasMurdered #michaelbrown #ericgarner #philandocastile brothers & sisters murdered by vicious police brutality aimed at the darkest and poorest. #blackhistory remember the struggles to give everyone the fair use of our rights in America & those who continue to strangle them out of our lives like in Florida’s leadership…