Culture
The Bankhead neighborhood has also been the location of one movie, partially filmed at the abandoned school building by Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway and English Avenue. Bankhead is also the former home to artists T.I., Young Dro, P$C, Dem Franchize Boyz, Governor, Unk, Peanut, Charlay, Shop Boyz, Shawty Lo,The Diablos, D4L, and Peeky D.
The 1990s Bankhead Bounce dance, performed by Michael Jackson at the 1995 MTV Music Video Awards, was named after the neighborhood.
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“Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.”
—Norman Podhoretz (b. 1930)
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“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.”
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