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Speaker 1 (00:02):
BI in news issaur. I'm Andrea Coleman coming up.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
It has been the honor of my life to be
your mayor. But today, with a grateful heart, I am
announcing that I will not seek a fourth term.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
A major announcement from one of America's long serving black mayors.
Insight into the treatment and done certain journeys of usdporties,
and remembering a survivor of America's racist history. But first,
here's BN News Now.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
A judge tossed federal cases against former FBI director James
call Me and black New York attorney generally Titia. James
call Me called the case at malevolent, while James said
she's heartened and called the charges baseless.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
I know that Donald Trump will probably come after me again,
and my attitude is going to be the same. I'm innocent,
I am not afraid, and I believe in an independent
federal judiciary.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Both say Trump's pick for US attorney was unlawful. The
Los Angeles Police Department is disputing rumors about the death
of fifteen year old Celesti Ribus Hernandez, found in a
tesla linked to black singer David. Police say her body
was not decapitated or frozen. Despite TMC reports, the Corners
records are under a security hold at LAPD's request while
the case is investigated. And eighty four year old civil

(01:11):
rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson has been released from the
hospital in stable condition. He was admitted for monitoring after
being diagnosed with a neurological disorder. His family denies reports
that he was ever on life support. I'm Amber Payton
with bi in News. Now back to you, Andrea.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Thank you Ember. A major news out of the nation's
capital today, Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser saying she will
not seek a fourth term. Bowser made the announcement in
a heartfelt videotaped message she released earlier today.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
When you placed your trust in me ten years ago,
you gave me an extraordinary opportunity to have a positive
impact on my hometown. Every day since, I've cherished the
opportunity and have happily given all my passion and energy
to the job that I love. Together, you and I
have built a legacy of success of which I'm intensely proud.

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And for the next twelve months, let's run through the
tape and keep winning for DC. Thank you, DC.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Bowser also mentioned that for the past ten years, she's
worked to restore faith in our government. Bowser jumped into
the national spotlight this year when she agreed to work
with the Trump administration's federal troop deployment in her city.
She is a first black woman elected to serve as
mayor to three four terms of a US city. A
thirty two year old Haitian native is providing insight on
what US deportees experience when sent back to their native

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countries or elsewhere. Address Mitchellin told CBS News that the
trip back to Haiti was painful and humiliating for him,
saying both his ankles and hands were shackled. He went
on to say that he and one hundred and twenty
six other people were given one hundred dollars upon landing
in Kpecienne. Fortunate for mitchell and his wife, who is
an American citizen, met him there. Since arriving into the country,

(02:49):
he says they have located some of his family members
in another part of the island nation and are trying
to find their way in the country that is now
their home. He also told CBS that land is limited
there and he is concerned about the three hundred thirty
thousand Haitians living in America now who are scheduled to
lose temporary protection status early next year. As we've been reporting,
Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa, Oklahoma

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race massacre, has passed away. Mother Fletcher, as she was called,
was one hundred eleven years old. Just last year, she
spoke with CNN sharing details of what she remembers of
that heart wrenching massacre that claimed the lives of more
than one hundred black people.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
People getting killed and houses, property, schools, churches, and stores
getting destroyed with fire, and then someone in the neighborhood
send to leave the neighborhood. If not, we're going to
kill all of the black people. It just stays with me,
you know. It's just the fear that I have lived

(03:46):
in Tulsa since, but I don't sleep all night live
in there.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
During the massacre of nineteen twenty one, a white mob
attacked and murdered residents in a thirty five block area
of the black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa. Mother Fletcher is
being remembered for helping keep that story in the public
eye and honoring those who lost their lives and their
livelihoods in that brutal attack. Stay informed, stay connected, and subscribed.
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