HBO Max has been taking shows off its platform entirely. Why didn't Memphis not erupt over the weekend? Wendy Thomas is going to tell us what she thinks. What happens when a streamer disappears your TV show? Next week on Into It, Vulture's Pop Culture podcast.
Memphis braced for an explosive reaction to footage of the deadly police beating. It never came. Wendi C. Thomas of the nonprofit newsroom MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, wasn’t surprised: “I know this city.”
This episode was produced by Siona Peterous and Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.
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