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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Bia nusisaur Am Andrea Coleman in for Doug Davis coming
up a US Supreme Court case gets set the stage
for another one involving a prominent black leader, a black
history making mayor elect is now a married woman, and
bidding farewell to two black musical giants. But first, here's
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Republican senators are pushing the back the Blue Act, which
would make violent ax on police eligible for the death penalty.
Senator John Cornyan of Texas.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
This hopefully provides some deterrent and demonstrates our respect for
law enforcement.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
The bill also expands officers' self defense rights and has
strong backing from police unions. San Diego, California, will pay
thirty million dollars to the family of black sixteen year
old Canoah Wilson, shot and killed by a police officer
at a train station. The family says Wilson wasn't a threat.
It's among the largest police killing settlements in US history.
And Joanne Allen Boyce, grandmother of late Disney star camera

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and voice and a member of the historic Clinton twelve,
has died at eighty four from pancreatic cancer. She helped
integrate a Tennessee High School in nineteen fifty six and
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app Back to Andrea Coleman.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Bre The US Supreme Court today is hearing arguments over
whether President Trump can fire members of an independent agency.
It's related to Trump's firing of Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a
member of the Federal Trade Commission, but could also have
implications on the upcoming case of Federal Reserve Governor doctor
Lisa Cook. Cook is the only black woman to ever
serve on the panel. President Trump fired her on claims

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she committed markets fraud to move black elected officials, like
Congresswoman e Leanna Presley says, was racially motivated.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Trump's attempt to fire Governor Lisa Cook. It's unlawful. The
courts have to uphold the law, preserve the Fed's independence,
and we have to continue to call out and confront
what is really a brazen overreach in power. Graph Governor
Cook is the first black woman to sit on the
Federal Reserve Board of Governors. How many times in the
last in recent weeks and months have we started a

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sentence with this person as the first black woman who
was then ensnared in a politic of grievance and retribution
by the Trump administration. Too many to name, but so.
Governor Cook is just the latest first black woman to
sit on the federal reserve bord of governors, and Trump's
targeting of her is no accident. It's another basis attack

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on a long list and line of black leaders.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Cook is now suing the President on grounds that he
doesn't have the authority to fire her without cause and
that his claims if Market's fraud are unsubstantiated. Her case
will be heard next month. Oh, the first woman who
happens to be black elected to lee Detroit is now
a missus. Mayor elect Mary Sheffield reportedly said I do
an a quaint, an intimate ceremony over the weekend to
Ricky Jackson Junior. Just last month, Sheffield addressed her many

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supporters after being projected the winner in the mayor's race.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Wow, Detroit, we did it. We did it.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
All right.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
You showed up, you showed out, you stood strong and
raised your voices towards the future that we all can
believe in. And when some said that it couldn't be done.
When some said that it was not the time, Detroit,
you said, uh uh, together we can. Together, we will,

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and tonight together we did.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Sheffield will be sworn into office on January first, According
to the Detroit Free Press, Jackson works as a program
manager for the Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan. A Two
notable and pioneering Black musicians have passed away. Don Rafael Ittier,
the iconic Afro Puerto Rican pianist known as El Maestro
of Salsa, has passed away at the age of ninety eight.

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Rafael Etier found the El Grand Combo and internationally renowned
thirteen piece ensemble credited for popularizing salso around the world.
Of Church earned fame and notoriety when playing for influential
blas Black artists including Michael Jackson, Donnie Hathaway, and George
Benson of Church was eighty four. We'll stay informed, stay
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