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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bin News this hour, I'm Doug Davis coming up. Black
US Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester fights to protect black lives
with their Vaccine Act. Also in a follow up story
from last week, today, the NAACP in the SELC announces
the filing of a federal lawsuit over Elon musk XAI
data center in Memphis. But first, here's bin News Now.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
In Charleston, South Carolina, the Emmanuel Amy Church is marking
ten years since nine black churchgoers were killed by self
proclaimed white supremacist Dylan Ruth.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
You can tell the power of this sanctuary by the
simple fact that some people are threatened by it and
want to take it away.

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Ugly. Racist hate is an evil.

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Now thirty years old, Ruf remains on death row after
being convicted of murder and hate crimes. R Kelly's lawyer
say he overdosed last week after prison staff allegedly forced
extra medications on him. He collapsed the next day and
was hospitalized for two days. They're now asking for home confinement.
Officials are conspiring with inmates to kill him, and for
the first time, the NAACP will not invite a sitting

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president to its annual convention. President Derek Johnson says Trump
is attacking democracy and civil rights. The White House fire back,
accusing the group of spreading hate. The convention it's next
month in Charlotte. I'm Amber Payton with BIN News. Now
back to you, Doug Hey.

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Thanks Amber. Black communities have always had to and continue,
i may add, to fight for fair access to healthcare,
and now black US Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware
is taking that battle to Congress. Today, she appeared on
MSNBC and called out HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior's
decision to remove eight vaccine experts from the CDC's Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices after promising not to do so.

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The Senator spoke on that and her Vaccine Act today.

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That means that individuals who are counting on this information,
whether it's for their children and their immunizations to their parents,
this is an important, serious issue, and so other members
and myself have come together and written to the Secretary,
but also put forward this bill called the Vaccine Act,
and it really is to make sure that reinstate that

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confidence that we have had through Democrats and Republicans in
the past, because this is a serious matter, and it
will affect people's lives.

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Where black families, the issue is even more urgent as
data shows at black children by the age of two
years old or less likely to be fully vaccinated. She
says politics motivated RFK to make the decision. The replacements
are reportedly researchers who are anti vaxxers. And you know,
for generations, black communities have always had to deal with
industrial pollution that costs the multitude of illnesses, and some

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Black neighborhoods are still being affected today. Such could be
the case in Memphis, Tennessee, where the NAACP and others
feel Elon Musk's new XAI Memphis facility is in direct
violation of the Clear Air Act. Today, the civil rights organization,
along with the Southern Environmental Law Center are standing up
to Musk and filed a federal lawsuitent in effort to
protect the lives of Memphis, mostly black residents. Kermit Moore,

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president of the Memphis Chapter of the NAACP, made the
announcement when he addressed the media.

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Our members voted to support the residents who live in
these communities and stand with them against environmental injustice. This
is a policy failure for a facility to operate three
hundred and sixty four days without a permit being approved.
This opens the floodgates for more data centers to drain

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our community.

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Black State Representative Justin Pearson says emissions from gas turbines
could harm public health. Patrick Anderson, other Southern environmental loss iner,
says Memphis deserves honesty, transparency, and clean air after state
leader has presented new findings on XAI turbines and finally,
HBCU Bethune Cookman University is calling on us to show

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up and give back on June eighteenth, in honor of
doctor Mary McLeod Bethune's one hundred and fiftieth birthday. With
Trump's administration pushing cuts through HBCU funding, including pelgrants and programs,
Black students at HBCUs need all of the support they
can get and that's why the university is asking the
community to come support their goal of raising two hundred
thousand dollars to be used as scholarships and to make

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