In 1968, with pride, inspiration, and hopes for a brighter future, singer James Brown reminded some and introduced to others through his hit song “Say It Loud: I’m Black and I’m Proud,” that Blackness is something to be immensely proud of. Earlier that same year, the night before his brutal assassination in Memphis, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached that “something is happening in Memphis” in response to the horrendous treatment of Black sanitation workers by the city, led by then Mayor Henry Loeb.