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Speaker 1 (00:02):
They ay in newsisaur I'm Andrea Coleman coming up.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
So I often say what protected me was the innocence
of a child. I thought that day I was ventually
am so I wasn't.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Afraid commemorating the bravery of a six year old who
helped to bring down the divisive walls of segregation more
than sixty years ago. And an HBCU fights to keep
and historic accreditation, but first year's bi In news.

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Now, eighty eight year old Morgan Freeman is calling out
the use of artificial intelligence to recreate his voice, saying
it's unethical and illegal. He told The Guardian his legal
team's investigating cases where his voice was used without permission
and adds and online videos. Freeman, famous for his iconic narration,
says using AI voices takes jobs from real actors, adding quote,
don't steal my voice, that's me end quote. Chicago and

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Saint Paul are suing the US Department of Justice over
new restrictions tied to a six million dollar community policing grid.
The cities argue the dj cannot require them to drop
DEI programs or help with federal immigration enforcement as a
condition for funding, and President Trump is facing backlash after
claiming historically black colleges and universities would fail without Chinese students,

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saying international enrollment keeps them open. But federal data shows
only two and a half percent of HBCU students are international,
and mostly from Africa and the Caribbean, not China. I'm
Amber Payton with bi in News. Now back to you, Andrea.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Thank you. Amber. Sixty five years ago today, under the
watch and guard of US Marshalls, a six year old
black girl named Ruby Bridges did a really big thing.
She braved the stairs, rants and hatred of an angry
white mob to enter an elementary school in New Orleans.
Her actions helped bring an in to segregation in the
city's public school system and in the South. In an

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interview with NBC News last year, Bridges said her innocence
protected her that day as she likened the crowd of
angry white folks to one she had seen before at
Mardi Gras. But the reality of the situation, including days
of being isolated from other students and activities, became clear
to her when a white classmate said he couldn't play
with her because she wasn't in word.

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The minute he said it. It felt like a weight
lifted off my shoulders because for that whole year, up
until that moment, I'd been trying to figure it out.
You know, why is the school empty? You know who
were these very tall white men walking around on the playground?

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What are they looking for? Why can't I go to
the cafeteria? I smelled the food cooking, and when am
I going to go to recess? So for a while
I thought I was being punished, but couldn't figure out
what I had done or why I was being punished.
So it was really it was hard, you know, trying

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to figure it all out. But the minute he said it,
it came together for me, and it set many things easier.
I mean, I didn't have to search anymore or have
all the these questions.

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Today, in honor of National Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day,
students and educators across the country held events to celebrate
her historic role in desegregating schools in the South. Attorneys
for a Tuskegee University have filed a lawsuit against the
American Veterinary Medical Association. The issue is the governing board's
attempt to strip the HBCU's School of Veterinary Medicine of

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its accreditation and papers filed in federal court this week.
The University of Qus the AVMA of violating due process
by failing to follow its own rules doing a recent
accreditation review. Founded in nineteen forty five, the Tuskegee College
of Veterinary Medicine became the first black veterinary medical school
in the country. Oh Reverend Jesse Jackson is still in

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the hospital this evening. The eighty four year old civil
rights icon was admitted to Chicago's Northwestern Memorial on Wednesday
after he was diagnosed with a rear brain condition. We
understand he is in stable condition. His family says doctors
are monitoring his progress and there is no word yet
on his release. We will keep you posted on his condition.
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