As I look back on 2020 and forward to 2021, there is one word that continues to pop into my mind: resiliency. Just like all of you reading this, 2020 threw the MTPR staff curveball after curveball. The MTPR team persevered, bounced back and became even more resilient than they were before to provide you uninterrupted coverage when you needed it the most. If only you could see the behind the scenes shuffle and hustle to make this all work!
Ray Ekness is the director of the Broadcast Media Center.
The MTPR News team, including our online team, have been in overdrive this year. They covered the ongoing pandemic, the most contentious election in our history, and the legislative session with insightful storytelling, bringing national stories to Montana and Montana stories to a national audience.
Thank God he can read good, and writes great, run the whole entire state with the right bass. Thank God he’s not a chess player, over-thinking (expletive) keep it player, mayonnaise and mustard with the slowed-up sound. Thank God he’s poet now. Poster child you flagrant fouls. Thank God he can run fast and he can jump high . or else he’d be a dead man. Deezie Brown, “Sumn to Say”
Growing up in rural Texas, Deezie Brown observed what he thinks of as “small-town syndrome.”
Young Black men would either play sports or fall into crime, he said on a recent episode of Austin360’s streaming show, the Monday Music Mashup.
Austin360 Staff
Happy Monday (Music Mashup), y all!
In this series we take you deep into the heart of the Austin Music Scene without leaving the safety and comfort of your own home. Today, our host, and Austin360 music writer, Deborah Sengupta Stith is joined by Deezie Brown and Jake Lloyd to talk about their excellent new EP Geto Gala, the evolution of Austin s hip-hop scene and what it s like to release new music in the middle of the worst winter storm in decades.
Watch live, below:
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