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Speaker 1 (00:02):
They Alla news is sauer Am Andrea Coleman coming up.
An arrest has been made in an incident allegedly involving
two HBCU students. Concern that higher education may become farther
out of reach from many people as we learn more
about the proposed reclassification of some degrees, and a black
media mogul helps preserve black history. But first, here's bi
in news.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Now, Black South Florida Congresswoman Sheila Schurflets McCormick is accused
of using a five million dollar COVID relief overpayment to
fund her twenty twenty one campaign.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
DOJ decided to indict a black Democratic congresswoman without giving
her attorneys the opportunity to meet with them. And I think,
if there's anything that we have learned in recent times,
this government is willing to charge and indict and arrest
somebody without actual evidence.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Prosecutors point to text messages and checks as evidence. Pennsylvania
Governor Josh Shapiro has signed the Crown Act, banning discrimination
based on hair texture and style. The new law, led
by black lawmakers, protects residents from race based hair discrimination
and is seen as a major step for equality and
inclusion and Maryland's black Attorney General, Anthony Brown, and other
Attorneys General secure to deal with the Department of Justice

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to block rules that would deny crime victim services to
undocumented immigrants. Brown says this agreement ensures all survivors of
sexual assault and domestic violence can access support, no matter
their immigration status. I'm Amber Payton with bi In News.
Now back to you, Andrea.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Thank you. Amber. We are hearing from the leaders of
two black private HBCUs in Atlanta today following the arrest
of a Morehouse College student, Matthew David Gonzales Foreorenstein, is
accused of assaulting a Clark Atlanta University student. Channel two
News reports surveillance footage from a bus shows a Morehouse
suspect lifting the Clark Atlanta student off the ground by

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her neck and swinging her around, and a statement Clark
Atlanta's president called it a disgusting display of violence. The
president of Morehouse also posted a statement on social media
denouncing acts of violence, especially those committed against women. Video
of the assault was posted on TikTok and task on viral.
Growing concern today over the US Department of Educations proposed

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reclassification of what's considered a professional degree and that there
are fewer of them. We need professional nurses on the
front line for caring for individuals. Lisa Murrhead is a
senior associate dan at Emory University in Atlanta. Murrhead, who
has black told Atlanta News First that she is concerned
because under the proposed new reclassification, nursing degrees would no

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longer be considered professional. That means nursing students would not
qualify for federal student loans offered at lower rates, and that,
she says, could lead to this students will have to
reach out and secure private loans, which may have higher
interest rates. The head of Emory's nursing school says the
average degree there costs around one hundred thousand dollars to
tackle on. High interest rates from a private loan would

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make it even more.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
So, escalating need for help care providers. Why would she
put up roadblocks and that's what this Department of Education
action is doing.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
The new proposed guidelines would also cap how much money
graduate students can borrow based on the classification of their degrees.
Students working on a non professional graduate degree could borrow
up to twenty thousand five hundred dollars, while professional degree
students could borrow up to fifty thousand dollars. According to Khou,
Graduate degrees in physical therapy, social work, and architecture are

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also not included in the proposed list, despite all of
them requiring licensure and advanced training, which are requirements listed
for the new proposer re classifications. In twenty twenty two,
there were approximately three hundred eight thousand black registered nurses
in the US, which accounted for six point three percent
of the field. A donation by TV produced a Shonda

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Rhymes that is helping preserve the barn in Mississippi where
immit Teel was believed to have been beaten and killed
in nineteen fifty five. According to Mississippi Today, the Black
Media mogul is giving one point five million dollars to
the immit Teel Interpretive Center to restore the barn, which
the center hopes to have opened for public viewing in
five years. Are by deal of black fourteen year old

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from Chicago was lynched in Mississippi while visiting relatives there
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Andrea Coleman. The Black Information Network means black news first,