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The Third Incident, The Evacuation, and The Pell Grant · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Another day, another shooting near the White House. And today
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  Speaker 1: we're learning new details about the suspect who opened fire
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  Speaker 1: while the President was still inside. And fifty thousand people
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  Speaker 1: in California are still displaced after a dangerous chemical triggered
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  Speaker 1: mass evacuations.
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  Speaker 2: We got an evacuation notice and we had to get
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  Speaker 2: out and notice, so we did.
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  Speaker 1: At A major change to federal student aid could reshape
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  Speaker 1: how Americans pay for job training and college. It's Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: May twenty six, from the Black Effect Podcast Network. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Mimi Brown. This is front page and here are the
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  Speaker 1: day's biggest stories plus today on the two minute take,
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  Speaker 1: Vice President Jade Vance has laid out who deserves federal
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  Speaker 1: compensation and there's a question nobody in Washington is asking
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  Speaker 1: stay with me. For the third time in one month,
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  Speaker 1: there's been a shooting related incident near President Trump. This
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  Speaker 1: time it happened right outside the White House. Investigator say,
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  Speaker 1: a twenty one year old man walked up to a
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  Speaker 1: secret service checkpoint near seventeenth Street in Pennsylvania Avenue over
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  Speaker 1: the Memorial Day weekend on Saturday night, pulled a gun
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  Speaker 1: from his bag and opened fire.
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  Speaker 3: Shame is something like that? What happen right here in
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  Speaker 3: this part of DC. But it's the world we live
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  Speaker 3: in now when people need to be alert, keep their
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  Speaker 3: head on a swivel, and we gotta be honest with ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: If hatred is starting to control us, this is where
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  Speaker 3: it can lead.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Secret Service agents immediately returned fire, killing the suspect. A
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  Speaker 1: civilian bystander was also shot during the chaos and remains hospitalized.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump was inside the White House at the time
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  Speaker 1: of the shooting, but was not injured. Journalists covering the
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  Speaker 1: White House described hearing rapid gunfire before being rushed into
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  Speaker 1: lockdown by Secret Service agents.
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  Speaker 3: What is that fum.
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  Speaker 1: Federal officials say the suspect was already known to law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement after a previous incident near the White House last year.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators also say they found troubling social media posts that
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  Speaker 1: included alleged threats towards the president, and with this now
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  Speaker 1: marking the third incident near the president in just weeks,
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  Speaker 1: federal officials are increasingly focused on what appears to be
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  Speaker 1: a growing pattern of political violence around the White House.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine being told you have to leave your home and
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  Speaker 1: nobody can tell you when you can come back. That's
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  Speaker 1: the reality today for roughly fifty thousand people in California
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  Speaker 1: after a dangerous chemical tank and an aerospace facility in
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  Speaker 1: Garden Grove overheated, triggering mass evacuations across multiple cities in
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  Speaker 1: Orange County. Some residents are now staying in shelters, hotels,
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  Speaker 1: or with family waiting for answers. Officials now say the
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  Speaker 1: threat of a catastrophic explosion has been eliminated, but the
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  Speaker 1: danger is not completely over. Whose are still working with
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  Speaker 1: the tank around the clock because there's still concent learned
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  Speaker 1: about a smaller rupture or chemical leak.
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  Speaker 2: We are happy to report that the threat of a
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  Speaker 2: bloody is now off the table.
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  Speaker 1: That threat has been eliminated.
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  Speaker 2: Our members went into that exclusions a zone again to
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  Speaker 2: validate what we were seeing and get those temperatures. The
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  Speaker 2: crack is there. We have verified that it's there and
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  Speaker 2: the tank has released its pressure. Additionally to that, the
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  Speaker 2: temperature has been stabilized and actually reducing.
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  Speaker 1: And for thousands of families, the hardest part right now
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  Speaker 1: is the uncertainty, not knowing when they'll be allowed to
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  Speaker 1: return home, get their medication, or even grab more clothes.
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  Speaker 4: Concerned because both my husband is physically disabled, my daughter's
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  Speaker 4: mentally disabled, and I and you know they have breathing issues.
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  Speaker 4: And I didn't want them to be around that chemical
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  Speaker 4: because we weren't really telling us a whole lot, but
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  Speaker 4: they were saying it was very toxic to your skin
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  Speaker 4: and for you to inhale it. So I was really
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  Speaker 4: nervous for them to get out, temper us to get
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  Speaker 4: out together.
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  Speaker 1: And so far, air monitors have not detected dangerous contamination levels,
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  Speaker 1: but evacuation orders remain in place as crews continue monitoring
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  Speaker 1: the situation. It's Tuesday, which means it's time for Front
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  Speaker 1: Page two minute take. Every Tuesday, I take two minutes
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  Speaker 1: and give you one thought, one opinion, and one conversation
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  Speaker 1: from the headlines. I think deserves a little more honesty
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  Speaker 1: and a little more context. Sometimes it's politics, sometimes it's culture,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes it's something that someone said and didn't get
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  Speaker 1: enough attention. So today we're talking about the one point
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  Speaker 1: eight billion dollar fund the federal government is setting up
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  Speaker 1: and the question that I think a lot of Black
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  Speaker 1: Americans are asking. So Vice President JD. Vans has described
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  Speaker 1: the fund this way.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to evaluate these things on a case by
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  Speaker 5: case basis. And if we think that somebody, whatever they
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  Speaker 5: were accused of, if we think that somebody was unfairly
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  Speaker 5: prosecuted and deserves just compensation, then that's what this fund
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  Speaker 5: is going to exist. It's just going to correct a wrong.
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  Speaker 5: I think this fund is a good part of getting
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  Speaker 5: justice for the people who were wrongly treated.
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  Speaker 1: So if that's the standard, let me make this case.
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  Speaker 1: Black Americans were enslaved in this country for nearly two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty six years by federal law. The Constitution
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  Speaker 1: protected slavery, the Supreme Court enforced it, and the federal
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  Speaker 1: government returned slaves who had escaped to their enslavers. And
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  Speaker 1: even after slavery ended, the federal government enforced Jim Crow
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  Speaker 1: federal housing policies redline black neighborhoods. The federal government ran
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  Speaker 1: the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment on hundreds of black men for
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  Speaker 1: forty years, and the FBI's intelligence programs targeted black political leaders.
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  Speaker 1: The federal War on drugs filled prisons with disproportionately black bodies.
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  Speaker 1: And can we add the nineteen ninety four crime Bill
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  Speaker 1: that locked away a generation for years. So if the
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  Speaker 1: standard is wrongly hurt by the federal government. Black Americans
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  Speaker 1: are not just on the list, are the the oldest
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  Speaker 1: items on the list. And here's the part on the
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  Speaker 1: list that I think should make everyone upset. This country
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  Speaker 1: has paid reparations before. Japanese Americans in turns during World
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  Speaker 1: War II received twenty two thousand dollars each under a
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  Speaker 1: federal law that was passed in nineteen eighty eight. Native
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  Speaker 1: American tribes they perceived land settlements and federal compensation for generations.
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  Speaker 1: The families of Americans who died on September eleventh, they
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  Speaker 1: got Federal Victims Compensation fund. Even hostages held in Iran
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine got compensation. The point is the
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  Speaker 1: United States has cut checks, many checks to many groups
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  Speaker 1: for acts of government itself committed or failed to prevent.
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  Speaker 1: But the one group that has never received reparations for
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  Speaker 1: what the federal government did over the longest period of
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  Speaker 1: time in this country's history is Black America. And now
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  Speaker 1: there's a one point eight billion dollar fund sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Justice built to compensate people who were
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  Speaker 1: wrongly targeted by the same federal government. And the people
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  Speaker 1: in line are are the January sixth rioters So let
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  Speaker 1: me just say this. If JD. Vance's standard is real,
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  Speaker 1: if the principle behind that fund is real, then Black
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  Speaker 1: Americans should be at the front of the line, not
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  Speaker 1: in the back. We've been waiting for four hundred years
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  Speaker 1: for the same logic that just produced a check for
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  Speaker 1: the Proud Boys Leader. And if the federal government can
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  Speaker 1: find one point eight billion dollars to apologize to people
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  Speaker 1: who attack the capital, it can find a lot more
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  Speaker 1: than that apology to the descendants of people who built it.
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  Speaker 1: That's your Tuesday to minute take. There's a major change
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  Speaker 1: coming to federal student aid that could completely reshape how
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  Speaker 1: some Americans think about college, job training, and debt. So
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  Speaker 1: starting next year, students will be able to use pelgrants,
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  Speaker 1: which traditionally help pay for college, on shorter workforce training
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  Speaker 1: programs that can take just weeks or months to complete
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  Speaker 1: of four years. Translation, a government is basically saying not
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  Speaker 1: everyone needs a traditional college degree to get into a
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  Speaker 1: stable career. So if somebody wants to go into healthcare,
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  Speaker 1: it manufacturing, construction, or skilled trades, they may now be
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  Speaker 1: able to get financial federal aid for faster training programs
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  Speaker 1: tied directly to jobs that are hiring, and for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people listening right now, especially working adults or
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  Speaker 1: parents trying to switch careers, this could be huge. College
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  Speaker 1: has become so expensive that many people are questioning whether
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  Speaker 1: taking on massive student debt is even worth it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: But critics also warn people to be careful because not
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  Speaker 1: every certificate program actually leads to a good paying job,
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  Speaker 1: and under these new rules, schools have to prove students
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  Speaker 1: are actually finishing the program and finding work afterwards in
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  Speaker 1: order to qualify for the funding. Still, this could become
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  Speaker 1: one of the largest shifts in career education in years.
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  Speaker 1: That's your front page from the Black Effect Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me Mini Brown TV.