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WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW: AUGUST 21, 2026 · What You Need To Know

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  Speaker 1: It's Sybil Wilkes with what we need to know today.
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  Speaker 1: It's Friday, August twenty first, twenty twenty six. Number one
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  Speaker 1: attorneys representing nineteen year old Carmelo Anthony appeared in a
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  Speaker 1: suburban Dallas courtroom in Collin County for a second day,
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  Speaker 1: this time seeking a new trial following his murder conviction
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  Speaker 1: in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf. Lee Trial council
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  Speaker 1: testified regarding an unwritten agreement with prosecutors that collapsed and
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  Speaker 1: prevented the African American teenager from taking the stand in
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  Speaker 1: his own defense. According to the trial Coverage, Defence lawyers
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  Speaker 1: also presented evidence of past racially charged statements involving the
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  Speaker 1: white teenager Austin metcalf As a visiting judge reviewed the
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  Speaker 1: retrial motion Number two. Thousands of residents in Gary, Indiana
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  Speaker 1: and surrounding areas remain without electricity after severe storms brought
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  Speaker 1: hurricane force winds to the region. Outage tracking from the
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  Speaker 1: Nipscoe Power Outage Portal indicates the U the extensive damage
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  Speaker 1: to power lines and hundreds of utility polls and that
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  Speaker 1: could delay full restoration until late August. At the earliest
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  Speaker 1: city leaders and utility crews are operating cooling centers and
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  Speaker 1: providing hot meals while working around the clock to rebuild
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  Speaker 1: that power grid. Number three from by Black three sixty five.
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  Speaker 1: Black owned food and beverage companies are rapidly expanding across
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  Speaker 1: national grocery stores and their shelves during the national Black
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  Speaker 1: Business Month, driven by strong consumer demand. New minority owned
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  Speaker 1: food products are generating twenty two percent higher online sales
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  Speaker 1: than standard category averages. Major national retailers continue adding these
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  Speaker 1: high performing brands directly to physical store aisles in the coffee, snack,
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  Speaker 1: and wellness categories. Well done Number four from our good
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  Speaker 1: news file. Helen Woodyard achieved a historic milestone by becoming
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  Speaker 1: the oldest person in the state of Georgia over the
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  Speaker 1: past decade to earn a credential inspired by her four
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  Speaker 1: children's academic degrees, This ninety one you heard me ninety
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  Speaker 1: one year old completed nearly one thousand hours of adult
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  Speaker 1: education classes at wests Georgia Technical College, and according to
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  Speaker 1: the local coverage, Missus Woodyard received a standing ovation as
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  Speaker 1: she should from family and administrators as she accepted her
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  Speaker 1: diploma Brava. Number five Black America No Year History. August
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  Speaker 1: twenty first holds profound historic significance across the African diaspora
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  Speaker 1: as a designated day of Black power and collective reflection.
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  Speaker 1: As documented by Black Lives Matter, this date marks the
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  Speaker 1: seventeen ninety one start of the Haitian Revolution, Nat Turner's
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  Speaker 1: eighteen thirty one Slave Rebellion and George Jackson's nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 1: one San Quentin Prison Uprising. Educational retrospectives highlight how the
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  Speaker 1: commemoration honors falling freedom fighters while encouraging political education, self reliance,
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  Speaker 1: and advocacy. All right, here's your daily inspiration from Yogi's Jewels.
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  Speaker 1: Life is a series of choices. Remember that every challenge
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  Speaker 1: presents an opportunity to respond with wisdom instead of impulse.
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  Speaker 1: Choose wisely, unsibil wilkesp informed, be empowered,