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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Biya News is Hour. I'm Andrea Coleman coming up.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Black women are bearing the brunt because we always do.
But this economic hurt and herm is coming for everyone
in this entire economy. It is a bell weapon.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
A black congress woman continues to demand something be done
about the alarming unemployment rate. A black women, a potential
opponent to a top ranking black lawmaker, gets a harsh
wake up call, and former First Lady Michelle Obama says
it's time to stop clocking marriage. There is no deadline
for when a woman can say I do, but first,
here's bi in News Now.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
The Miami Dade College Board will vote again next week
when giving land by the Freedom Tower for a Trump
Presidential Library Trustee Marcel Felipe calls the lawsuit out by
black historian Marvin Dunn a public relations stunt just.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Because somebody has become so blinded by their partisan agenda
they can't do something that's right for the community. It
really I'm a little bit irke by my people who
try to do grand standing on taxpayer money.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Hey trial is set for August twenty twenty six. Delaware
State University continues to draw young people in new data
shows fall twenty twenty five, Enrollment has climbed to six thousand,
six hundred and twenty three students and more than thirty
one percent jump since twenty twenty. Students from forty one states, DC,
and Puerto Rico are choosing the HBCU, which also welcomed
its largest freshman class this year. And Chance the Rapper

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will host Chicago's first Central Time countdown on Dick Clark's
New Year's Rock and Eve with Ryan Seacrest twenty twenty six.
He'll join Ryan Seacrest in New York for the nationwide celebration.
I'm Amber Payton with bi in News. Now back to you, Andrea.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Thank you. Amber. Congress Woman I Jana Presley out of
Massachusetts is once again voicing concerns about the extraordinarily high
unemployment rate of black women in the US. That rate
currently sits at seven point five percent compared to the
national average of four point four percent.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
This is a five alarm fire. It is an emergency.
It is a crisis for black women, for black families
and black futures in that black way, and nearly seventy
percent of them are the primary breadwinners in their households
and again. This seven point five percent rate is up
nearly an entire percentage point from September's six point seven

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percent rate.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Presley made those comments yesterday during a press conference. She
was very direct about who she believes is to blame
for the situation.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
This is no coincidence. Again, this is not a naturally
occurring phenomenon. This is the direct result of Donald Trump's
mass federal firing frenzy and his unrelenting attacks on diversity, equity, inclusion,
and accessibility.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
During Horry Marks, Presley also called on the Federal Reserve
to do all it can to secure employment for all Americans.
The call follows a letter Presley sent to Fed Jair
Jerome Powell a few months ago demanding the same. Join
us this coming Sunday on the Black perspective as we
revisit a conversation we had with Congresswoman Presley on this
topic a few weeks ago. That's Sunday at nine am

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and nine pm Eastern and run for Congress against House
Minority Leader who Keing Jeffries by New York Democratic Socialist
Chios may end before it can get started. According to
The New York Post, a key Democratic socialist group has
voted not to endorse a city council member. The vote
against endorsement follows this simple response on Sunday by Mayor
elect Zoorron Mondani unmeet the press. If Democrats win the midterms,

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do you want to see Leader Jeffries become the Speaker
of the House. Yes. The vote against endorsement by the
city's chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America was narrow,
but according to some press reports, political pundits think that
it will be hard for Osay to beat Jeffries without
the group's support. Former First Lady Michelle Obama is adding
her voice to a growing list of women encouraging other

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women to let go of age related expectations. During a
recent discussion on the podcast The Look, Missus Obama said
women should not consider themselves too old to get married
or enjoy professional success. I neither or both have not
happened in their life by certain age, say like thirty five,
which Missus Obama says is still really really young. Instead,
she advises women to not get caught up in what's

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not happening now, as she says the future has so
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