What We Need To Know: November 21, 2025

What We Need To Know: November 21, 2025

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It's Sybil Wilkes with what we need to know today.
It's Friday, November twenty first, twenty twenty five. Number one,
A federal judge rule the President Trump's deployment of National
Guard troops to Washington, d C. Violated the Constitution and
that city's authority over its own law enforcement. The judge
temporarily paused the ruling for twenty one days to give

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the Trump administration time to appeal. The lawsuit brought by
DC's attorney general challenged the Trump use of Guard troops
after he declared a crime emergency and sent more than
twenty three hundred Guard members and federal agents into that city.
Number two, a coalition of grassroots groups is urging a

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nationwide economic shutdown from November twenty fifth to December second,
covering Black Friday and Cyber Monday and beyond, to protest
the Trump administration and Rising Economic and equality organizers are
asking Americans to haul spending, skip work if you can,
avoid travel and restaurants, and cancel those digital subscriptions while

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still supporting small local businesses on Small Business Saturday. The
campaign's leaders say the boycott unites several independent efforts to
push back against a political system they argue is dominated
by corporate and billionaire interests. Number three by Blat three
sixty five Today looks Act Scarlet by Red Drops period products.

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They're now featured prominently in alta beauty stores, intentionally placed
alongside major beauty brands instead of tucked away in a
stigmatized aisle. Founders Dana Roberts and Monica Williams created the
company after seeing how poorly traditional pads and tampons served
tween girls, both in fit and in messaging. Now, by

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placing their products in alta and framing periods as a
normal part of wellness, they hope to erase shame and
empower young girls with products designed specifically for them. Number
four the Good News File. Aliko Dangote has become the
first African to reach a net worth of thirty point

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three billion dollars that according to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index,
driven by rising valuations in his cement and oil businesses.
His fortune is grown by more than two point one
six billion dollars this year, including a recent four hundred
and thirty million dollar game that pushed him past the
thirty billion dollar mark. The surge is largely tied to

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the continued expansion of Dangote's cement, which recently opened a
one hundred and sixty million dollar factory in Cote du Vois.
Number five Black America two fifty continues to shine the
spotlight on America's black female veterans. This week today Specialist
Shoshana Johnson, the first black female prisoner of war. Specialist

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Sashanna Johnson, an Army veteran and former POW, still wrestles
at times with whether she deserved to be rescued after
her convoy was ambushed in a rock in two thousand
and three. The specialist was part of the five seventh
Maintenance Company which got lost near Nazariyah and came under
heavy enemy fire, leaving eleven soldiers dead and seven, including Johnson, captured.

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Specialist Johnson was shot in both ankles while taking cover
before her sergeant ultimately made the decision to surrender when
they could no longer return fire. Read more about Specialist
Johnson's story in What We Need to Know the newsletter.
Here's your daily inspiration from Yogi's Jewels. Life is a
series of choices. Let's choose to have hope, which grows

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when we choose kindness, forgive freely, and love without condition.
I'm Sybil Wilkes. Being formed, be empowered,