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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bin News this hour. Doug Davis coming up.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
So don't tell me this isn't about race.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Jasmin Crockett continues to speak truth to power, saying the
Republicans redistricting efforts in Texas will spread to other states
in an effort to dismantle black lawmakers. Also, longtime black
South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn says America's political climate is
starting to look like nineteen thirties Germany and Katanji Brown
Jackson open the Martha's Vineyard Black Book Festival with a

(00:26):
powerful message. Will tell you what she said, coming up,
but first, here's Bin News now.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
The White House is reviewing several Smithsonian museums, including the
National Museum of African American History and Culture, to ensure
the alignment President Trump's directive. According to The Wall Street Journal,
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch received a letter stating the review
aims to preserve trust in the institution. Eight museums have
reportedly been told to replace exhibits deemed divisive or ideologically

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driven with what the letter calls unifying historically accurate content.
Chance the Rapper is launching his first tour in six years,
The End We back tour kicks off September twenty sixth
in Houston and will hit major cities across the US
and Canada, wrapping October twentieth in Los Angeles. And the
Justice Department has settled lawsuits challenging race based admissions at

(01:13):
West Point and the Air Force Academy, ending the need
to continue the cases. The move follows a similar deal
with the Naval Academy. Attorney General Pam Bondi says the
dj is committed to eliminating DEI practices across the federal government.
I'm in Repayton with BI in News. Now back to you, Doug.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
All right, thank you. Black Congressman Jasmine Crockett didn't hold
back on a recent interview with CNN. She responded to
Texas Governor Greg Average's defense on redistricting, and she accused
the GOP of targeting black lawmakers by redrawing voting lines
that will dismantle black voices.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
They have already decided that the only way that they
can win because they have failed policies, is by making
sure that they can cheat their way. And while they're
cheating their way, the only way that they can do
that is while they also at the same time, violate
the Constitution as well as the Voting Rights Act, and
make sure that is people of color we're talking about
them going after Cliburn in South Carolina, Andre Carson and Indiana,

(02:05):
Reverend Cleever in Missouri, Amelia Sykes in Ohio. So don't
tell me this isn't about race.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Crockett added that when you come for our seats, you
come for our communities, and that she won't stand for it.
Crockett wants the state law maker, says three of the
four black districts in Texas are on the chopping block. Meanwhile,
down in good old South Carolina, Black Congressman Jim Clyburn
isn't one to toss around historical references without some facts
to back it up. Earlier today, Cliburn sat on MSNBC

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that America is on a dangerous path, one that reminds
him of Germany in the nineteen thirties.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
And I saw back in twenty eighteen outside it sound
in this alarm, and I told people that we were
headed in this direction. If you remember back in Germany
at the Big Issue, remember a man named Jesse Orange
and how hit the walk out of the Arena and
Jesse Oorns one that race Jesse Orange had lost, he

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would have stayed and celebrated. So these things are very clear,
and I think people should be realistic and stop pretended
that is not happening. It is happening. And if we
do not reverse this very quickly, I think we will
go the way of Germany in the nineteen thirties.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Cliverer and made the comment during an interview with MSNBC,
responding to gop led efforts to redraw maps mid decade
and the Freeder will takeover of local police departments. As
science that the country is drifting towards authoritarianism, he pointed
to voter suppression, political intimidation, and the normalization of Trump's
dictator like tactics. And finally, the nation's first black women

(03:33):
Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson brought history pride in
purpose to the Black Book Festival on Martha's Vineyard. Her
memoir Our Lovely One is a reflection of her journey,
her heritage, and the legacy of black women who paved
the way for her to be in the position she's
in now. She highlighted Constance Baker Motley, the trailblazer who
led her path and showed love to the twenty two

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other authors featured at the festival, including Reverend Liz Walker
and Black filmmaker Malcolm d Lee. And Your Gathering was
a celebration of black creativity and civil power, and Jackson's
message was to the point. These days in time, stay
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