Today is August 29th, 1987.
Ronald Reagan is President.
A gallon of gas is about 90¢.
A movie ticket costs around $4.
The average new car costs about $10,000.
The average new home costs around $105,000.
Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” has been one of the songs of the summer.
Dirty Dancing just opened in theaters.
RoboCop, The Lost Boys, Full Metal Jacket and The Living Daylights are also playing.
The Nintendo Entertainment System is taking over living rooms.
MTV still means music videos.
Bon Jovi shirts, acid-wash denim, Reebok high-tops and Swatch watches are everywhere.
Michael Jackson’s new album Bad drops in just a few days.
There’s no internet.
No smartphones.
No streaming.
If somebody leaves the house, you might simply have no idea where they are until they come back.
It’s Saturday.
Summer is almost over.
But for one more weekend...
It’s still 1987.
We can't forget how Kohen Wiley was taken from his family. He was 1 year old when he was fatally shot by an officer responding to an alleged shoplifting call outside of a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi. His mother had to witness her innocent baby, who had barely begun to see this world, be killed. No parent should ever have to carry that image. Kohen deserved to grow up. His family deserves justice, and we will not stop fighting until they get it.
tim hardaway sr says only LeBron James could on this current Philadelphia sixers team could mess with that 1982 sixers team that had Moses Malone , Julius Erving
Shouts to the young adults and the kids that didn’t grow up in the 80s and 90s, and still discovering music from that time. Take your time, there’s TONS to go through. This is all of the R&B, Hip-Hop, MTVs Rock, Reggae/Dancehall and House since 1980. It’s an abyss….