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WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW: OCOTOBER 30, 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: we made it. It's Friday, October 30th, 2026. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: former President Barack Obama knocked the current White House response
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  Speaker 1: to his cheesecake factory jab at President Trump, calling the
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  Speaker 1: administration not serious people. Campaigning in Georgia for Senator John
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  Speaker 1: Ossoff and former Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Mr. Obama said
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  Speaker 1: officials mounted a government-wide response to a joke, not to inflation.
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  Speaker 1: though many families can barely afford to eat out. He
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  Speaker 1: joked that Donald Trump's $ 900 million renovations made the White
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  Speaker 1: House look like Saddam Hussein opened a cheesecake factory. Number two.
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  Speaker 1: African-American politician David Crowley is leading Wisconsin's governor's race, but
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  Speaker 1: growing black political fatigue could threaten this. Polls and voter
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  Speaker 1: interviews suggest Mr. Crowley may struggle to reach the black
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  Speaker 1: support Democrats usually need to win the divided battleground state
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  Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. And some black Milwaukee voters say Democrats have
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  Speaker 1: taken their votes for granted for years, voting Democrats simply
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  Speaker 1: to keep Republicans out rather than because support was earned.
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  Speaker 1: Number three, Buy Black 365 and Brennan Williams turned a
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  Speaker 1: passion for lemonade that began at the age of nine
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  Speaker 1: into Brennan's Lemonade. perfecting his premium blend over years before
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  Speaker 1: bottling it in 2021. The Louisiana business is now in
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  Speaker 1: 11 stores, and Mr. Williams, a junior at Southeastern Louisiana University,
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  Speaker 1: plans to bring it to airports next. He says persistence
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  Speaker 1: is key, using failures as motivation. Well done, sir. Number four.
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  Speaker 1: More good news. This is great news. 15-year-old Philip Mullen
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  Speaker 1: of Alexandria, Louisiana, rang the bell at Manning Family Children's
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  Speaker 1: Hospital in New Orleans after a treatment his team called
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  Speaker 1: a functional cure for sickle cell disease. Hospitalized more than
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  Speaker 1: 100 times, he became Louisiana's first pediatric patient to receive
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  Speaker 1: a special gene therapy and the second person in the
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  Speaker 1: state to get it. Sickle Cell affects about 100,000 Americans,
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  Speaker 1: disproportionately Black Americans. Number five, Black America, let's celebrate our history.
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  Speaker 1: It was on this date, October 30th, back in 1979, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Richard Arrington was elected the first African-American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: His win followed the killing of 20-year-old Benita Carter, shot
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  Speaker 1: by a Birmingham police officer though she committed no crime.
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  Speaker 1: A citizen review board ruled that shooting justified, and this
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  Speaker 1: young woman's death changed Birmingham politics and pushed Mr. Arrington
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  Speaker 1: to run for mayor. Whew, bravo. Here's your daily inspiration
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  Speaker 1: from Yogi's Jewels. Life is a series of choices. Let's
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  Speaker 1: choose to be honest, even when it's uncomfortable. I'm Sybil Wilkes.
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  Speaker 1: Be informed, be empowered.