Exhibit celebrating Stax legend Isaac Hayes set for Museum of Science & History

Yahoo News! ^ | Tue, March 1, 2022 | Bob Mehr

[nickcarraway]

The Afrocentric legacy of Memphis musical icon Isaac Hayes will be the subject of a new exhibit opening in April.

The Museum of Science & History (MoSH) has announced “Isaac Hayes: Black Moses Gives Back,” which will focus on the Stax Records star’s humanitarian work in Ghana and showcase his unique collection of African garments. The exhibit — which is being presented in conjunction with the Stax Museum — will open April 9 and run through July 31.

Beyond his musical work, Hayes — the hit Stax songwriter turned solo star and Oscar winner — also focused much of his life on Afrocentrism. A release announcing the new exhibit notes that in “addition to displaying the African clothing worn by Hayes, [it] will highlight Hayes’s philanthropic efforts in the African nation of Ghana and his hometown of Memphis.”

[Larry Lucido]

[Vaquero]

Hello chilrun

[real saxophonist]

Can you dig it?

[BenLurkin]

[Vaquero]

Chocolate salt balls.

[nickcarraway]

I never understood why Hayes didn't keep writing the kind of songs he wrote with David Porter in the 60s. Porter is still alive.

Hayes also did the organ and arrangement for Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness.

[Dutch Boy]

Isaac Hayes was in “I’m Gonna Get You Sucka” singing off key to one of his own songs. That still makes me laugh.

[dfwgator]

Great Movie....



My bitch better have my money/Through rain, sleet, or snow/My whore better have my money/Not half, not some, but all my cash/'Cause if she don't,/I'm gonna put my foot in her ass.

[Ciaphas Cain]

That car was bad-a$$!

[Dutch Boy]

I agree. I may have to watch it again.

[equaviator]

The Duke of New York?...I thought he was dead!