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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Then news this hour, I'm Doug Davis coming up.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It never really leaves Jaman. Now, if something happens, it
stays with it, with me the rest of your life.

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You know, the little black girl who survived the Tulsa
Race massacre and grew up to impact the world is gone.
Plus there's a peace deal to any Ukraine Russian war.

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I believe it's a shame because we are not talking about,
you know, empty land. We are actually talking about settlements.

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And a civil rights legend whom some field was on
its deathbed returns home just in time for Thanksgiving. But first,
here's bien.

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News now, like US Representative Lauren Underwood toward the Braview
I Center and Illinois, calling conditions terrible. The way that
immigrants and US citizens have been treated here is unacceptable
and it doesn't make us more safe.

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She says.

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Staffing at Chicago area ice facilities will triple by January
amids stepped up enforcement. Pennsylvania will become the twenty eighth
state demand hair discrimination as Governor Josh Shapiro signs the
Crown Act. The law protect styles like braids, lacks and
within schools and workplaces, a measure champion by Speaker Joanna
McClinton and Representative Latasha Mays, and Christian Combs says his

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father Shan Didtycombs could be home for the holidays despite
a twenty twenty eight release date. Did He is serving
fifty months for prostitution related charge. However, the White House
denies rumors of a Trump. Pard and Gippi in these
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Now back to Doug Davis. All right, thank you, good afternoon,
and happy Tuesday. Ukraine is reportedly on the verge of
a peace agreement with Russia after talks in Abu Dhabi
involving the two countries and the US and have all
reached a basic agreement, although some tricky details remain. Helena
and Chenko is a member of the Ukrainian Parliament and
speaks to CNN about the main sticking point territorial concessions.

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I believe it's a shame because we are not talking about,
you know, empty land. We are actually talking about settlements,
about cities and villages with familists living in their homes.
There After Bucha off the IRPA, the whole world have
seen what Russia occupation is doing to Ukrainian civilians. They're
murdering people there, torturing people, the kidnapping kids and sending

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them to Russia, basically stealing them from their families. We
don't want this kind of atrocities to continue.

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Ukraine push back against the initial US led plan that
called for giving up land, which led to revisions. President
Zelensky may travel to Washington, d C. By the end
of this month to help finalize the agreement. Meanwhile, a
century after surviving Tulsa's Race massacre, mother Viola Fletcher has
passed at the age of one hundred and eleven. Fletcher,
one of the last alive to witness the nineteen twenty

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one Toulsa race massacre when she was only seven years old,
turned that experience into a long life push for truth
and accountability. Here's Fletcher speaking on the Today Show about
the horror she experienced on that dreadful night.

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Remember the noise, guns shooting, people running and screaming, and
noise from the air like an airplane, fires, burning and
swelling soap. And then we could hear someone going through
the neighborhood that everybody should leave town, that they were
killing all the black people. So of you, though that

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was frightened. I hardly sleep nights, and I lost my appetite.
I only a few times, and they don't ever leave
you mine, not mine.

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Although she became an advocate for civil rights and justice,
mother Fletcher worked much of her life in domestic service.
Like so many black women of her generation, she held
down other people's homes while rebuilding her own family and faith.
In her later years, she stepped into her role as
an educator and mentor, using the Viola Ford Fletcher Foundation
to teach history, leadership, and resilience to younger generations. She

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even testified before Congress and accepted honors for her civil
rights advocacy. She's a true beacon of truth in the
fight for reparations and respect. And finally, Reverend Jesse Jackson,
the legendary civil rights leader, is out of the hospital
in stable condition after spending nearly two weeks under observation
for progressive super nuclear palsy. The eighty four year old,

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who was once a close aide to doctor Martin Luther
King Jr. And is the founder of Rainbow Push Coalition,
is now at home with his family. Stay informed, stay connected,
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