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The Alabama Map, The Anthony Trial, and Halle Berry's Mission · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The Supreme Court just allowed Alabama to move forward with
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  Speaker 1: a congressional map lower court's rule discriminates against black voters.
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  Speaker 2: So overwhelming volume of.
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  Speaker 1: Evidence testimony is now underway in the Carmelo Anthony murder
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  Speaker 1: trial with zero black jurors on the panel.
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  Speaker 3: A tragedy all the way around for both families.
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  Speaker 1: And Halle Berry is taking on women's healthcare even as
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  Speaker 1: an actor.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a woman First.
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  Speaker 1: It's Friday, June fifth, from the Black Effect podcast network.
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  Speaker 1: I Meanie Brown. This is front page and here are
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  Speaker 1: Another major hit to black voting power in America, and
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  Speaker 1: this time from the Supreme Court. So the Court just
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  Speaker 1: allowed Alabama Republicans to move forward with a congressional map
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  Speaker 1: that lower courts already ruled was racist against black voters.
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  Speaker 1: So federal judges already ruled that Alabama lawmakers drew these
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  Speaker 1: maps in a way that weakened black political power on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: The court said black voters were basically packed into one
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  Speaker 1: district while other black communities were split up across mostly
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  Speaker 1: white Republican districts, making it harder for black voters to
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  Speaker 1: influence elections. And remember, black people make up more than
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  Speaker 1: a quarter of Alabama's population. So Alabama used a different
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  Speaker 1: map in twenty twenty four, and that one gave black
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  Speaker 1: voters real influence and two congressional districts and help elect
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Shamari Figures. Now, the Supreme Court's conservative majority has
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  Speaker 1: sided with the state and allowing Alabama to move forward
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  Speaker 1: with the map that the federal lower court already said
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  Speaker 1: was discriminatory.
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  Speaker 2: Since this court has been hearing the evidence in this case,
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  Speaker 2: they've been pretty consistent in their belief that there was
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  Speaker 2: an overwhelming volume of evidence that the state of Alabama
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  Speaker 2: discriminated against black voters and how he drew its map.
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  Speaker 1: And this is bigger than Alabama because it comes just
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  Speaker 1: weeks after another Supreme Court ruling weakened part of the
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  Speaker 1: voting rights at the law created to stop racial discrimination
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  Speaker 1: in voting. Now, states across the South are moving quickly
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  Speaker 1: to redraw maps before the next election in ways they
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  Speaker 1: give Republicans more political power while reducing black political influence.
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  Speaker 1: Testimony is now under way in the Carmelo Anthony murder
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  Speaker 1: trial in Texas, a case that has already sparked major
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  Speaker 1: debate around race, self defense, and a criminal justice system.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony is now nineteen years old. He's charged with first
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  Speaker 1: degree murder in the twenty twenty five stabbing death of
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  Speaker 1: seventeen year old Austin Metcalf during a high school track
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  Speaker 1: meet in Frisco, Texas. Anthony says he acted in self defense.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors say it was murder. And before testimony even started.
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  Speaker 1: There's one major issue that already has people to talk.
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  Speaker 1: There are no black jurors on this panel. The prosecution
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  Speaker 1: removed every qualified black juror during jury selection. The defense
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  Speaker 1: challenged it, but the judge allowed those strikes to stand. Now,
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  Speaker 1: a jury with no black members will decide whether Anthony
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  Speaker 1: acted out of fear or intentionally killed another teenager. And
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  Speaker 1: because cameras and recording devices are not allowed inside the courtroom,
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  Speaker 1: the public is relying entirely on courtroom observers and reporters
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  Speaker 1: for details about what jurors are seeing and hearing. One
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  Speaker 1: court observer was inside the courtroom as both sides laid
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  Speaker 1: out two very different versions of what happened under that tent.
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  Speaker 1: Let's listen the.
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  Speaker 3: State open first. Bill Wirski is a tremendous trial lawyer.
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  Speaker 3: He really captivates an audience as a really tall guy,
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  Speaker 3: and he has a very commanding voice and really laid
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  Speaker 3: out logically where the roadmap of the state's case was
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  Speaker 3: going to go. Once he was done with his opening,
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  Speaker 3: then the defense got to do their open. And the
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  Speaker 3: thing that stood out the most to me about the
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  Speaker 3: defense as open as they never mentioned how or why
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  Speaker 3: the knife was in Carmelo's bag at the track meet.
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  Speaker 3: I imagine it was purposefully they did not choose to
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  Speaker 3: bring that topic up jurors.
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  Speaker 1: We're also shown in hand surveillance video from the stadium
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  Speaker 1: video the public still has not fully seen.
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  Speaker 3: Can't see any faces, you can't see the actual act
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  Speaker 3: take place. You see a little scuffle, and then you
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  Speaker 3: see everybody scatter. So it doesn't necessarily prove anything, but
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  Speaker 3: I believe it's just laying the foundation in the groundwork
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  Speaker 3: for what's to come.
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  Speaker 1: And because race, self defense laws, and jury makeup are
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  Speaker 1: already central to this case, it's likely going to remain
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  Speaker 1: one of the most closely watched trials in the country.
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  Speaker 1: here next Friday. But first, let's call out last week's winners.
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  Speaker 1: here we go. Three questions from this week. So, first question,
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  Speaker 1: show with something a lot of women are going to
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  Speaker 1: relate to. Halle Berry is trying to change one of
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  Speaker 1: the most uncomfortable parts of women's healthcare, the dynological exam.
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  Speaker 4: Going to our first gyological visit can be tortuous. I
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  Speaker 4: know mine was. It's very intimate, it's personal, and so
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  Speaker 4: of that process, right, that old speculum that we have
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  Speaker 4: to succumb to put our legs up in the stirrups
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  Speaker 4: and then yeah, this big metal, cold speculum jammed inside
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  Speaker 4: and it's very uncomfortable. But now what Nellispec has done,
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  Speaker 4: they have so revolutionized the spectrum. It's no bigger than
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  Speaker 4: a tampon. Now, this is clearly my second act, helping
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  Speaker 4: women women and understand their health, understand their rights, their power,
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  Speaker 4: raising money, advocating it's long overdue.
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  Speaker 1: Hollie says she became passionate about women health after being
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  Speaker 1: misdiagnosed during perimenopause. At one point, she says the doctor
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  Speaker 1: incorrectly told her she had herpes when she was actually
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  Speaker 1: dealing with menopause symptoms. That experience pushed her into advocating
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  Speaker 1: for more research and better health care for women, especially
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  Speaker 1: midlife women, whose symptoms often get ignored or dismissed. That's
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