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"States, terminating in the Mississippi Delta and thousands of wetland islands along the Gulf Coast. But today, some of those islands are being swallowed up. I didn't think it was going to happen in my lifetime. Chris Brunei's hometown, I'm Al dejan Charles, routinely cut off by storms, homes, mangled by hurricane Ida, exacerbating the problems that have been threatening them for decades. Once a thriving town of 400 people at its peak, Al dejan Charles, we used to have 22,000 acres of land. Now only 320. They've lost 98% of the land here. My environment was being challenged so as they graduate process, more land was being eroded by the government, Mexico, that's what brought me to make a decision I never wanted it to make. With a $48.3 million federal grant, Louisiana built a new town, just 40 miles north, but 12 feet higher above sea level. The land and homes free to all recent residents of isle de Jean Charles. I've been beautiful though. I tell people this is the most luxurious house I ever lived here, but protection over here, then on the island. Folks there named the new town, new isle, and 100 families will call it home by the end of this year. Back on aisle dejean Charles, we meet Edison and Elizabeth dardar. They have no plans to leave. I got my home over here. I was raised here, so I must stay here. I got to rebuild the fire if I want to stay. Not always see. We fight for our country, and we can fight for our land. A complex issue and a resilient community adapting to an ever
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"Do this time 1245. I'm Jeff Poe till Bill O'Neill is at the editor's desk here, some of the stories we're following. Police say the shooter who killed three kids in three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville was once a student there, the shooter, a 28 year old Nashville woman who has been identified, was shot and killed by police, police say the officers rushed the covenant Presbyterian school heard gunshots on the second floor and engaged the shooter who was armed with two assault rifles and a handgun. At least two dozen people were killed over the weekend after a rash of tornadoes hit the Mississippi Delta, a trio of survivors wrote out the twisters inside the walk in refrigerator at a diner. Those women spoke with ABC's Robin Roberts. When did you know Tracy that a tornado was coming? How much advance notice did you get? And I feel like I'm in it. I got two bat two text messages back to back from my sister. And my daughter in big spark and they both said it was just there's a tornado down, get to a safe place. And at the same time, I had my teenage cashier came running towards the back of the building saying my mother's on the phone and she said there's a tornado down and at that point most of us were towards the back of the building. And the lights flicker and I just hollered cooler and my husband opened the cooler door and started shoving us in So just a minute. About a minute. And is it true that right before he closed the cooler door when he looked out, he was able to already see that the
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"The family of a 17 year old who was shot and killed by police in D.C., is now demanding more details about what happened during a vigil last night they called for transparency. The vigil bot family and friends together near the site were 17 year old Delano Martin was shot and killed by police on March 18th over northeast. Why don't we have any answers? The family's attorney Andrew Clark on NBC four. Police say Martin was found asleep inside a stolen car and resisted when U.S. park police officers tried to get him out. He then drove off with an officer inside the car, delena was shot by that officer before crashing. Success to the back. How can you explain that? Nowhere from park police about how many shots were fired. Police say they found a gun inside the car. The shooting is now being investigated by the D.C. police internal affairs division. Melissa Howell WTO penis. The death toll from an explosion at a chocolate factory in west reading Pennsylvania now stands at 7 after two more bodies were found there last night. Here's mayor Samantha cake. We will not be announcing any names of the identified victims until we know for certain that their family has been contacted. They have had time to process and break the news to themselves to those close to them. The explosion happened Friday were also still waiting for an update on the condition of a woman who was pulled alive from the rubble early Saturday, as well as four other people who were taken to the hospital, investigators also still don't know what caused the blast yet. Severe weather this weekend left a devastating and deadly mark on the south, at least 26 people were killed after powerful tornadoes ripped through the Mississippi Delta. CBS's Omar via franca is in one of the hardest hit communities rolling fork Mississippi. In nearby amory, a school was pounded by the winds. The storms left a 170 mile path of destruction. They started in Mississippi
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"Minister for opposing a judicial overall, the country's president is calling for a stop to reforms. Proposed reform 7 cited days of protests. We're here to fight for our democracy to take down this corrupt government. We don't need to sleep. We don't need to do anything but speak up our voice because we have one and that's our goal. I'm Manhattan grand jury is expected to get back to work today. They are hearing a campaign finance violation case that could lead to an historic indictment of former president Donald Trump. CBS Nicole Killian reports. Trump attorney, Joe tacopina maintained his client's innocence in the probe related to alleged hush money payments to adult film star stormy Daniels. And he said Trump's inaccurate prediction that he would be arrested last Tuesday was not made up. We've been in touch with the district attorney's office regarding potential logistics of an arraignment if it gets to that point. It was on NBC. Those living in Philadelphia line up to buy bottled water after a chemical spill prompted a water advisory. But the city now says the tap water is safe to drink until at least later Monday. Federal help is on the way to the Mississippi delta where dozens of people have died from a huge weekend tornado. Correspondent Omar via franca is there. In rolling fork Mississippi, the damage is widespread and in every direction. The deadly EF four tornado, with wind speeds up to 170 mph, turned homes and businesses into piles of rubble. Twitter acknowledges through a legal filing Sunday that part of its source code has been leaked online. Source code is the computer code that runs the social media site. The legal document filed by Twitter asks the website GitHub to take down the code that someone posted. This is CBS News. Hire with minimal effort and maximum success with indeed. They're powerful hiring platform helps you attract
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"The bank for that. Member FDIC. LeBron James is returned, didn't stop the Lakers from falling to the bulls one 18 one O 8. James scored a team high 19 points off the bench after missing a month with a sore right foot. But a couple drives in the ball got away from me a couple of shots didn't feel as good as before, obviously, but I was out for four weeks. So between that and the wind, you see how you get those things back. Zach lavine scored 32 points as the bulls boosted their shattered at birth in the play in round. Troy Brown junior and Malik Beasley each scored 18 for Los Angeles, but Anthony Davis had just 15. I'm Dave fairy Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has fired his defense minister on Sunday. A day after the party member called for a halt to the planned overhaul of Israel's judiciary that is fiercely divided the country. Netanyahu's office did not provide further details, the move signals the prime minister will move ahead this week with plans to overhaul Israel's judiciary, which has sparked widespread opposition, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets, military and business leaders have spoken out against it and leading allies of Israel have voiced concerns. A former army general is a senior member of Netanyahu's ruling we could party. On Saturday, he called for a pause in the controversial legislation until after next month's Independence Day holidays, citing the rift's threat to Israel's national security. Netanyahu's government is pushing ahead for a parliamentary vote this week on a centerpiece of the overhaul, a law that would give the governing coalition the final say over all judicial appointments, outgoing defense minister gallant, was the first to break ranks late Saturday by calling for the legislation to be frozen, but it was unclear whether others would follow him. I'm Sarah Napa. Help has begun pouring in to one of the poorest regions in the country. The Mississippi delta after a deadly tornado killed and injured dozens of people and flattened entire communities. Just been devastating. The mayor of rolling fork, Mississippi, Eldredge walker, says families are grieving homeless and facing years of displacement, but the federal government is helping. That's what we're here to do. Fema administrator dean Chris weell toured the damage this weekend, vowing help is there. Going door to door into these communities, helping people register for assistance. Like wonder Bolden, who's lost her home and possessions. Volunteers are helping too, like Jared kunzi of Alabama, who was stunned by what he saw
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"Return didn't stop the Lakers from falling to the bulls one 18 one O 8. James scored a team high 19 points off the bench after missing a month with a sore right foot. But a couple drives in the ball got away from me, a couple of shots didn't feel as good as before, obviously, but I was out for four weeks. So between that and the wind, just got to get those things back. Zach lavine scored 32 points as the bulls boosted their shattered at birth in the play in round. Troy Brown junior and Malik Beasley eat scored 18 for Los Angeles, but Anthony Davis had just 15. I'm Dave ferry. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired his defense minister on Sunday. A day after the party member called for a halt to the planned overhaul of Israel's judiciary that is fiercely divided the country. Netanyahu's office did not provide further details, the move signals the prime minister will move ahead this week with plans to overhaul Israel's judiciary, which has sparked widespread opposition, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets, military and business leaders have spoken out against it and leading allies of Israel have voiced concerns. Yoav galant, a former army general, is a senior member of Netanyahu's ruling we could party. On Saturday, he called for a pause in the controversial legislation until after next month's Independence Day holidays, citing the rifts threat to Israel's national security. Netanyahu's government is pushing ahead for a parliamentary vote this week on a centerpiece of the overhaul, a law that would give the governing coalition the final say over all judicial appointments, outgoing defense minister gallant, was the first to break ranks late Saturday by calling for the legislation to be frozen, but it was unclear whether others would follow him. I'm Sarah Napa. Help has begun pouring into one of the poorest regions in the country. The Mississippi Delta. After a deadly tornado killed and injured dozens of people and flattened entire communities. Just been devastating. The mayor of rolling fork, Mississippi, Eldredge walker, says families are grieving homeless and facing years of displacement, but the federal government is helping. That's what we're here to do. Fema administrator Chris well toured the damage this weekend, vowing help is there. Going door to door into these communities, helping people register for assistance. Like wonder Bolden, who's lost her home and possessions. Volunteers are helping too, like Jared kunzi of Alabama, who was stunned by what he saw
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"Member FDIC. Didn't stop the Lakers from falling to the bulls one 18 one O 8. James scored a team high 19 points off the bench after missing a month with a sore right foot. But a couple drives in the ball got away from me, a couple of shots didn't feel as good as before, obviously, but I was out for four weeks. So between that and the wind, just got to get those things back. Zach lavine scored 32 points as the bulls boosted their shattered at birth in the play in round. Troy Brown junior and Malik Beasley each scored 18 for Los Angeles, but Anthony Davis had just 15. I'm Dave ferry. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired his defense minister on Sunday. A day after the party member called for a halt to the planned overhaul of Israel's judiciary that is fiercely divided the country. Netanyahu's office did not provide further details, the move signals the prime minister will move ahead this week with plans to overhaul Israel's judiciary, which has sparked widespread opposition, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets, military and business leaders have spoken out against it and leading allies of Israel have voiced concerns. A former army general is a senior member of Netanyahu's ruling we could party. On Saturday, he called for a pause in the controversial legislation until after next month's Independence Day holidays, citing the rift's threat to Israel's national security. Netanyahu's government is pushing ahead for a parliamentary vote this week on a centerpiece of the overhaul, a law that would give the governing coalition the final say over all judicial appointments, outgoing defense minister gallant, was the first to break ranks late Saturday by calling for the legislation to be frozen, but it was unclear whether others would follow him. I'm Sarah Napa. Help has begun pouring in to one of the poorest regions in the country. The Mississippi Delta. After a deadly tornado killed and injured dozens of people and flattened entire communities. Just been devastating. The mayor of rolling fork, Mississippi, Eldridge walker, says families are grieving homeless and facing years of displacement, but the federal government is helping. That's what we're here to do. Fema administrator Dan Chris well toured the damage this weekend, vowing help is there. Going door to door into these communities, helping people register for assistance. Like wonder Bolden, who's lost her home and possessions. Volunteers are helping too, like Jared kunzi of Alabama, who was stunned by what
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". Those delays beginning at Malcolm X all the way up to the capitol beltway. Steve dresner, WTO traffic. All right, Steve and now WTO meteorologist Steve prince a valley. The evening will be fantastic with a mostly clear sky as temperatures hold out in the 60s. We'll drop into the 50s later tonight. 40s expected overnight under an increasing cloud cover. Monday looks mostly cloudy, showers arriving for mid morning onward highs upper 50s Tuesday clouds limited sunshine highs upper 50s. I'm Steve prince of alley WTO news. Right now we have 68 in Bowie Maryland 64 in Leesburg and 66 in Washington. This is WTO P news. Everything you need every time you listen. The WTO producer's desk is wired by IBW local 26. Where electrical contractors come to grow. Good evening, I'm dick giuliano, Veronica canales is our producer. Top stories we're following for you. The national weather service is warning about more severe weather in eastern Louisiana, south central Mississippi and south central Alabama. This after at least 26 people died in tornadoes in Mississippi on Friday. CBS News correspondent Omar villafranca has more from rolling fort Mississippi. We've seen plenty of cars and trucks here that were basically picked up and thrown around like toys. Some wrapped around trees. One woman found her husband's pickup truck about a football field away. It had been rolled by the tornado all the way down into a ditch and it's not drivable. And that's the thing. A lot of family members are coming in to help their other family members who are affected not only giving them help to give them a ride or even just a break in the air conditioning. President Biden has issued an emergency declaration for Mississippi making federal funding available, the tornado ripped through the Mississippi Delta one of the poorest regions in the country. Former president Donald Trump held his first 2024 election rally in Waco, Texas yesterday.
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Daunting recovery underway in tornado-devastated Mississippi
"Help has begun pouring into one of the poorest regions in the country, the Mississippi Delta. After a deadly tornado killed and injured dozens of people and flattened entire communities. Just been devastating. The mayor of rolling fork, Mississippi, Eldridge walker, says families are grieving homeless and facing years of displacement, but the federal government is helping. That's what we're here to do. Fema administrator Chris well toured the damage this weekend, vowing help is there. Going door to door into these communities, helping people register for assistance. Like wonder Bolden, who's lost her home and possessions. Volunteers are helping too, like Jared kunzi of Alabama, who was stunned by what he saw. Tom's devastated. Trash. Trees. Houses, homes. I'm Jackie Quinn.
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"Ion travel minute. Sports at 25 and 55 powered by Red River, technology decisions aren't black and white. Think red. Here's Jay Brooks. Danny less than an hour till NCAA March Madness resumes this afternoon in the men's bracket with San Diego state and crate in two 20 tip with the winner getting Florida Atlantic that at 5 O 5 it'll be the second of two games today as Joe Lara Miami hurricanes will take on Texas winner. We'll get Yukon. Elsewhere, women's bracket couple games tonight at 7 Miami and Ellis you and the elite 8 as well as Louisville taking on Iowa. That's at 9 o'clock. Meanwhile, Maryland already in the elite 8 first time in 8 years. Their reward, they're getting undefeated South Carolina. They'll tip at 7 o'clock tomorrow night. Virginia tech will take on Ohio State Monday night at 9 o'clock after their victory over Tennessee on Saturday. Soccer, the season and home opener for Washington spirit at Audi field is a well rain is in town for a 4 o'clock start this afternoon and then we've got some baseball. Josiah gray making his final spring start coming up soon. They're in the top of the first taking on the Marlins where Washington has a two zero lead over the Nats. The O's are in action taking on the Philly spot with the first of one nothing lead for the Orioles as they have one more game after today that'll be against the Cardinals tomorrow before they head to Boston to start their regular season on Thursday. Jay Brooks, WTO P sports, coming up after traffic and weather and emergency declaration for areas of the Mississippi delta, hit hard Friday by a deadly tornado. It's one 26. I'm Jaden Gardner, forward from the University of Virginia. I've had doubters all my life being a 6 6 undersized forward. It's tough. I gotta be quicker, crafter. And I got a
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"55, powered by maximus, moving people and innovation forward. And here's Frank Han ran. Alex Ovechkin scored career goal number 8 22, but the caps lose tough one at the Pittsburgh penguins four to three caps were down three to one, tied it up at three three late, but then a giveaway goal is the penguins get the victory four to three over the capitals. On the pitch D.C. United falls at home to New England two to one at Audi field, mezcal is basketball, two teams advanced to the final four next week in Houston. It is Florida Atlantic the owls knocking off Kansas state and Yukon gets back to the final four with an easy win over Gonzaga. For the Maryland tariff and women's team, it's into the elite 8 for the first time since 2015, convincing 76 59 victory over Notre-Dame and now things get really tough for the turfs as they will face number one overall seed South Carolina Monday night at 7 in Greenville, South Carolina top seat, Virginia tech, got to win beating Tennessee to advance in the tournament. Wizards in action Sunday Night at the Toronto Raptors but already ruled out because of injury. Bradley Beal and Kyle Kuzma. Again, cap's fault on the road at the penguins four to three and the terps are into the elite 8 in women's hoops. A front hand right hand WTO sports. Coming up on WTO, president Joe Biden issued an emergency declaration Sunday from Mississippi making federal funding available to the communities hardest hit by the deadly tornado that rips through the Mississippi Delta. CBS News is at the top of the hour. It is four
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Through the Mississippi Delta Friday and that search and rescue operations continue in sharkey and humphreys counties. Devastating damage has been reported by the national weather service in the towns of silver city and rolling fork. Over 80,000 homes and businesses are still without power across Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. Two were dead and Pennsylvania 9 still missing after a chocolate factory exploded at happened at the RM Palmer chocolate factory last night shaking the town of west Redding, destroying most of the building, video of the blast shows the building exploding like a bomb went off. The number one overall seed is out of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Here's South Africa. 5 seed San Diego state knocked out top seat Alabama 71 64 to advance to the elite 8 on Sunday. Alabama shot just 32% from the field. Meanwhile, 5th seed Miami knocked out the final top seed left in the NCAA tournament with an 89 75 win over Houston in the sweet 16, the hurricanes led by as many as 17 en route to the program's second straight appearance in the elite 8. Elsewhere, Texas is headed to the elite 8 for the first time in 15 years. Tyrese hunter netted 19 points to lead the second seated longhorns to an 83 71 win over third season savior in a sweet 16 showdown and creighton is headed to the elite 8 for the first time in school history while also ending Princeton Cinderella run former president Donald Trump's officially kicking off his presidential campaign today and Waco Texas, a campaign spokesperson says Waco was chosen for the rally because the heavily Republican areas close to all four of Texas's biggest metro areas, and has nothing to do with this year's 30th anniversary of the branch davidian standoff against federal authorities near Waco that took the lives of 76 Branch Davidians and four federal officers. I'm Scott Carr. A new survey finds young people don't mind paying more to see movies on the big screen if it means they get to sit in the best seats in the House, a survey from morning consul finds 54% of 18 to 26 year old Gen Z ticket buyers, and 46% of millennials said charging the most for the most desirable seats is appropriate for a movie theater chains and battled Republican congressmen from New York State George Santos has reached a deal with Brazilian prosecutors. Liz Warner has details. The deal is slated to settle a 15 year old fraud case. CNN reports Santos will formally confess to defrauding a Rio de Janeiro clerk out of $1300 worth of clothes and shoes and he will pay damages. Brazilian authorities were unable to find Santos after he left the country, but the case was reopened in January when the freshman congressman came under serious scrutiny over lying about significant portions of his background. Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has taken the stand and her ski and run court battle, Paltrow's accused of running into and badly injuring a man than skiing away with her friends as he remained unconscious. Terry Sanders has lawsuit says it happened at the posh deer valley resort in Utah back in 2016, leaving him with a permanent traumatic brain injury and four broken ribs. Palto denies it in his countersuing for $1 in fact she claims he was the one who caused the accident. I was skiing and looking downhill as you do, and I was skied directly into by mister Sanderson. The lawsuit originally sought just over $3 million now Sanderson is asking for 300,000. And a lost bird in South Carolina has been found thanks to a Billy Joel song, a Myrtle Beach woman lost her pet cockatiel named Joel when the bird flew out of the front door in a flyer the woman posted the lost bird was a fan of the song uptown girl, a local spot of the bird, played the song for it, and when he saw the bird bob its head up and down, he contacted the owner. I'm
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Census Shows U.S. Is Diversifying, White Population Shrinking
"The census bureau has issued its most detailed portrait yet of how the U. S. has changed over the past decade the twenty twenty census figures show continued migration to the south and west and population losses in the Mississippi Delta an appellation but the bureau's mark Perry sees a shift in the patterns most states in the west continue to be the fastest growth category but this is no longer true in the south in that region only five states and the district of Columbia we're in the fastest growing category the numbers also indicate the white population of the U. S. is aging and has fallen to its smallest share of total population on record well the nation's population under eighteen is increasingly diverse overall Perry says the last decade saw the second slowest population growth on record only the nineteen thirties had slower growth Ben Thomas Washington
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"An is with the Orlando's Morning news here on Wdbo, 173 FM and AM five any. We appreciate you being here this morning. Our top story If you feel uncomfortable wear a mask if you're around people that are high risk. Go ahead and wear a mask. You may not want to put away those mass just yet. Mandatory mass rules may make a comeback as the Delta variant of the Corona virus spreads at a rapid pace, and this is the warning. It's the danger of Delta that most fully vaccinated. People who come down with the delta are asymptomatic or only have a mild infection. Sarah Bartlett has details. That's according to the World Health Organization. But it also noted that places with high Delta variant transmission and low vaccination rates are where hospitalizations are on the rise. The organization's chief scientist did say that the delta variant is ripping around the world at a scorching pace. I'm Sarah Bartlett, NBC NEWS radio Continuing team coverage around Orlando, Seminole County leaders are reminding people to keep wearing those masks and practice social distancing Seminole counties dark Todd Husky states were over the pandemic. But the pandemic isn't over with us as more and more people leave their quarantine to get out and about in the world. Once again, vaccine interest is slowing. This is new case positivity was now close to 8% last week, and it was under 4% 2 weeks ago. Dusty adds. It's a simple thing. Get a vaccine and please, when we can't social distance indoors, wear a mask. It's not that hard. Officials said. Even those who are fully vaccinated should go back to wearing a mask indoors. Laurel Lee Wdbo one. Oh 73 FM and am 5 80 just a reminder If the rising cases of the virus got you thinking about getting vaccinated, Orange County has a mobile clinic out of the community again..
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"Going got to keep the revenues going trying to keep books cooking. Pharmaceutical companies. They are figuring out ways. After record revenues over the last year. How can they keep it going? What's the next market 70% of Americans who have 60 some percent. Have been vaccinated. We've got to get the Children vaccinated this morning fighter said that they are looking at maybe the necessity of a booster shot. For the delta variant. Hey, sick hearing about the Delta Variant always said with Grave tones. Yeah, We survived up till now. But We won't survive the delta variant. Unless you get a booster, and then we can have governments and Pfizer few 100 million more of our dollars. Then then everything will be fine. I find it amazing. The the length to which so many people in the media are going to boost the revenues of the pharmaceutical companies. Uh and then politicians, of course to last week, I told you about how Joe Biden Said that he's thinking about Sending out federal Jack booted thugs. He didn't use that phrase, but he was thinking about sending out feds to go door to door. To try to get the unvaccinated vax because.
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"We heal daddy feels helped mom in the house. My mom was white had assisted at lived up in the keel. They used to load us up in a call. Make a sit in a boot. That's what they call the trump and bring us up there sear but when it got dark the white sister would always say and i say y'all up here now yasha going go so we did. We got back in into car and we crawled into that boot and they put blankets over us it whenever white people up in and if they saw black people up there after dark will the system was saying they could kill us so daddy who looked white as his mama set up front with her while we hit. And that's how we made it back safe when i was a child. I didn't fully understand their stores. What i understood was nebulous emotional. I knew there was darkness in the world. One that was particularly drawn to those who looked like me that sometimes the people who were veiled in that darkness said ugly things wore white hooded robes roam the countryside at night sometimes they felt no need to dan robes that sometimes they wore their own clothes and naked faces when they came for you that sometimes they try to hurt you or kill you that. Sometimes they sent you away juvenile harder prison. I knew about parchman prison as a child. I knew that it was a place. I never wanted to go. But that there was a real danger. I couldn up their marooned under the endless sky of the mississippi delta. My mind worked over all this. When i slept i dreamt that police came christmas eve and took my father and all my uncles jill i dreamt that clansman stocked an endless forced and i was there. Pray i iran and ran. I climbed trees and shiver. I crawled in ditches. And i pulled pine straw myself. Terror the beat of blood through me. Even though there was a dark heart pulsing in the store. Is my elders. Told me i think i instinctively understood the power of storytelling that i understood the fact that stories could sure you up against things that would hurt you in the world that they could teach you how to survive at the same time they took you out of yourself made you feel emotions so much greater my burgeoning love of reading cemented this belief in storytelling. I felt that i was learning and spiriting something incredible again and again when i read the secret garden. The hero in the crown roll of thunder. Hear my cry here. The spy island of blue dolphins and julie of the wolves that i was learning that it was okay to be confused or scared like aaron inherit. Then i could feel joy and grief. All at once like julie or mary that at the same time. Human beings capable of inflicting pain and being terrible to one another. They could also be kind. I discovered an indelible truth that storytelling could give meaning to my life at the same time. It equipped me with the tools. I needed to successfully navigate.
103.5 KISS FM
"mississippi delta" Discussed on 103.5 KISS FM
"They're showing up at places and there's lines of people to meet them as if they were the rock stars themselves. So it happens right away for MTV invite 1983 or 1984. They are well entrenched in pop music and pop culture, and the network would grow to a place where all the biggest artists in the world would come on to be part of MTV. You actually feature memorabilia. From some of the biggest music acts of all time. And you also highlight in this exhibit some iconic programming like Unplugged and Beavis and Butthead shows. Everyone knows That's right. You know, there's three real path to go through the exhibit. One is the history of MTV in which we have really great stuff from the collections of Bob Pittman and John Sykes. Early ideas about marketing and you remember the great song money for nothing by dire straits and staying crooning. I want my MTV, which they turned into a massive marketing campaign very successful, too. So we have that whole story. Then we have the story of the artists themselves. We have objects and artifacts from Michael Jackson's have State from Madonna from Hard Rock Cafe and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lent us objects. We have things. From Bon Jovi and and from Poison and some of the early hair metal bands that were very popular on MTV in the early days, and then the third level is a lot of really cool either interviews where people are recollecting about their experiences at MTV, or we show you, for instance, the very first show jersey sure or or we of Beavis and Butthead and some great memorabilia from these programs as well. So there's kind of something for everything, though I must say we really do concentrate. Right on the music, which is the earlier days when it was just all about. Music certainly acknowledge the importance of the if you will, the reality TV era, but But for the most part since we are the Grammy Museum at the interest is most in the music. I'm joined by Bob Santelli, founding executive of the Grammy Museum and curator of the MTV turns 40 Exhibit. So can you tell us a little bit more about the Grammy Museum itself and what it's all about. Beyond this particular exhibit at the Grammy Museum is really Grammy Museum's. There are three technically in the country. The mothership is in Los Angeles, and then we have our Grammy Museum Mississippi, which is where the MTV exhibitors And then we have a satellite called the Grammy Museum Experience, which is in Newark, New Jersey. The whole idea of having more than one is really to reach out into communities because we're an educational institute institution, reach out to artists, students, the teachers and we do. Public programs, education programs and, of course, exhibits. What was the initial idea behind the creation of the Grammy Museum? Well, you know, it's It's an interesting thing because many years ago in the back of the 19 nineties, the Recording Academy, which is the official name most people call it the Grammys. But where the Recording Academy and we give out the Grammy Awards and do the Grammy Award show. We had always wanted to do a museum, but really couldn't settle on exactly where that should be. Should it be in Memphis and New Orleans or New York or LA and eventually we figured it should be in l A, which is The home of the Recording Academy and, of course, the Grammy Awards. And so we decided basically to showcase not just what we do as an institution, but to Provide a platform for looking at all kinds of American music because the Grammys are about all kinds of we're not just about rock like the Rock and Roll Hall of fame or jazz or blues or country where all of that so it really required us to have chemicals around the country in Mississippi, Of course, where were located the Mississippi Delta That's really the birthplace of American music. When you think about gospel, blues, or R, and B rock and roll, even they all have connections to the Mississippi Delta. So when we decided to expand beyond Los Angeles, that was the logical place for us to go. Tell us about some of the programs the Grammy Museum offers, which really are key to continuing to nurture and develop musical talent across the country. Yeah, well, you know our landmarks and really the most important things that we do in terms of public program. It's called an evening with in the evening with programs take place in Los Angeles, Mississippi, as well as in New Jersey. But really, they take place in Los Angeles because so many of the artists these days In any genre, either live in Los Angeles have a second home in Los Angeles with their managements in Los Angeles. So an evening with is basically imagine. Imagine MTV Unplugged meets. Inside the actors studio. That's what it is. It's a comprehensive interview that we record for our archives. We talk to artists about the creative process, their roots their influences. And then there's an unplugged performance, meaning a kind of spontaneous, impromptu performance by the artists because they take place in very tiny theater is about 200 ft. We record these And, uh, it's basically history from the horse's mouth. So to speak. We have everyone from Oh, and opera Placido Domingo and R and B Smokey Robinson Blues buddy Guy rock at Shirin and you know, Tele swept you Name it. They've done it with us. We can now have done over 1000 of these hard to believe in the last 12 years. I'm joined by Bob Santelli, founding executive of the Grammy Museum. In certain parts of the country, music programs have almost been completely wiped out. What are some of the programs the Grammy Museum offers to try to fill that void. That's absolutely right. You know, we have a straight shot into America's music education programs throughout the country. We try to aid them with Teacher lesson plans for our exhibits. We do things, um With with honoring great teachers and music education..
Detour To Neverland
"mississippi delta" Discussed on Detour To Neverland
"Hire an pirates but it is something that i think you missing walt disney world of something. That was near and dear to waltz heart. And you've got a little bit of it here. You know again. You would assume he had little to no planning at all in this particular Location but they obviously understood him in new him. Well enough that yeah. He would love more new orleans references. And you know the mississippi delta that area of the country that he really enjoyed. So i don't know it's a really really cool story. It's just one of those kind of tugs at you. It's like man you you wish that that stuck around an hour just to see it in its heyday. That's the worst part about researching all these things as you know the history that we appreciate it so much just seems so cool and you know it's it's amazing to get to see everything that is new and everything that's coming and how everything has evolved but you know part of you. I feel like it's always going to wish that you could see the original now so anything else you wanna cover for this paddle fish episode that was barely about paddle fish. I don't think it's it's about the empress louis. This is the empress louis episode. That's what it is. We are going to start a softball team. Now called the Riverboat rascals wants to join us. I mean i would definitely credit t shirt that said the river rascals and i don't care how many people got the reference. It would be awesome to me. It might just be you and me. But that's okay. We're greetings from the baton rouge lounge. Now we're talking. We're talking but thank you so much for listening to our early morning listeners. We do apologize this week of putting out both episodes in the evenings. Hopefully we made your tuesday. Friday commute a little bit better But we'll get back to posting them in the mornings for our normal release schedule of course if you enjoyed this episode leaving us an items reviews absolutely the best way to help us grow and we really appreciate. We love seeing those reviews. Come in and then again if you early in the planning process or just speculative about when you might wanna come back and get some pricing reach out.
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GroundTruth
Inside Mississippi's Prison System
"Know home. In Nineteen Forty Blues, men, book White, recorded Parchment Farm, blues based on his time served inside the infamous prison. But Dow. Is Mine. He sings about the hard labor from dawn until the setting of the sun that's when the work is done. When The prison is still in operation today and still under scrutiny. The conditions that White Sang about and released on a ten inch records still echo from inside Mississippi state penitentiary on pirate podcast did show is the opportunity to the platforms allow these guys on inside voice to complain and let people know what they're really going through. Failures in oversight both within the state's prisons and at the government level have led some correctional officers to come forward even though the cash rate is not our job to treat them like dogs I mean we not the Kennel over there they the freeze and ended be treated like humans. In August two, thousand eighteen well before any thought of a pandemic sweeping the country Mississippi's prison system saw spike in inmate deaths. Correctional officials attributed many of these deaths to what they dismissed as natural causes. This is the ground truth podcast I'm Charlie Senate Michelle Lu covers criminal justice for Mississippi today for this episode, she takes us inside her investigation into the unexplained deaths and why the victims families still have questions. With report for America, Corps member Michelle Lu we're on the ground inside the Mississippi prison system. So as long as people have been in prison, people have died in prison missing prison leaders are looking into the fourth inmate twelve death. This month in a state thirteen prisoners have died behind bars and the month of August alone when local news outlets started reporting on a seaming spike in death across Mississippi's prison system in August of two, thousand eighteen, my editor asked me to take a look let story and figure out how conceptualize it in terms of what did these numbers mean and how did they compared to how deadly Mississippi's prisoners have been in the recent past. Over the course of that month sixteen people fifteen men and one woman died across Mississippi's entire prison system, and that was a significantly higher number than any prior month going back to two thousand twelve. So the State Corrections Department maintained that this number was not out of line with how deadly the prisons usually are. I think it was misinterpreted as to the calls for those sixteen. There's that were reported for the month of August the Commissioner Police Hall suggested that the people who had died inside died in similar ways that people die outside oppressive media those were from natural causes. I'll let the states lack of transparency raised questions about how inmates were dying in the states care. Before. Moving to Mississippi I had done a little bit of cops and courts reporting during journalism internships as a college student and I my student newspaper but I had never done any sort of substantive enterprise work on the topic before. I was really eager to even one of the challenges was that there was an has always been a tension between the urgency of the stories I want to tell Um when. People Send Me. Tips when people tell me about incidents that have just happened and the sort of frustrating Byzantine process. By which I have to. Make a good faith effort to corroborate the story. Circuit Clerk's office healthy. Hi My name's Michelle Lu reporter with Mississippi today in Jackson. This typically involves filing a lot of public records request for public records request and you can send a copy of the check that you're GonNa send and fax number six, one, seven, three times but I, don't get a lot confirmed or denied from the state. And as I've learned neither do the families of those who died in prison. I think families of people who die in any state institution deserve a thorough understanding of what happened to the person they loved and cared about and in talking to family members I found that they were getting little to no information from the state about what happened to their loved ones. We will thirty, six year old willy, hauling head died Saturday at least bill prison officials have not released a causes of death pending completion of autopsies. Willie hauling head was serving time for a drug conviction. and. When I drove out to Alabama to meet with Willy's family I was. Really, struck by the way in which in the absence of any real clarity were knowledge in how willy had died. They took what was available to them, which is the condition of Willie's body when they picked him up from Jackson at the mortuary and the facts they knew about Willy's life and had to find their own narrative. The official death certificate that arrive in the mail about a year later said that. release. Cause of death was undetermined. But he was you know in his thirties his family said, he didn't have health problems. and. They is their reports that he was just found on the floor one night. Mississippi state. Penitentiary colloquially known as Parchman is one of the largest prisons in the state of Mississippi. It's run by the state and it's located in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. It has a really bleak in distressing history. Frankly, it was founded in one thousand, nine, hundred 's as the cotton plantation and it was modeled after a slave plantation. In the nineteen thirties, Elvis Presley's father. Vernon spent nine months there for forgery. And to this day, the Parchman farm is reported to be a working operation relying on the Labor prisoners. Parchman has also been at the center of several calls for investigations into the conditions inside these investigations have been partly in response, the videos and photos leaked by prisoners. This is a picture of the food trays. These trays are stacked outside exposed to numerous germs, insights, and feces from birds. A lot of incarcerated people in Mississippi have had contraband cell phones inside and they've often used social media. As, well, as family members to circulate images of their living conditions
In The Thick
The Cities Are Dying
"Our L. Ryan? We're GONNA start with you because on Sunday or Vo's the poor state of Mississippi dealt with tornadoes that ravaged the state eleven people died as a result on top of having to deal with the pandemic so in terms of covert nineteen while the number of reported cases in Mississippi is lower than in places like New York and Michigan for example Detroit. It's still impacting communities of color very intensely. Yeah that's correct Maria And so even though. The state of Mississippi has relatively fewer cases in places like New York. We report last week that Mississippi actually has the highest rate of hospitalizations in the country. A lot of our cases Jackson of course in Hinds County is the epicenter. But you know we're seeing a lot of cases in places like the Mississippi Delta which are majority black and you know the impacts here are the same as we're seeing in places like Chicago Milwaukee where even though African Americans are not the majority of the overall population the majority of both cody cases and deaths are black so mississippi fifty six percent of all the the the cove in nineteen cases have been African Americans and in seventy two percent of all of all debts in so compounded on top of that Maria you talked about the tornadoes that we just experienced over the weekend. So you know we were telling people shelter at home and now people You know people have been displaced from their shelters and we're going to have to figure out like where do we actually house people? Actually the safety protocols that we would normally go through in a disaster like this. They won't be able to to happen as quickly. Because of the the cove protocols and so even our our overall numbers are low. I mean we're we're definitely seeing a disproportionate impact on places like Mississippi to have large black populations and communities with high concentrations of poverty. Thanks for that Ryan and then Detroit a city where we've talked about this in the thick we we had. Stephen Live a city where systemic racism and poverty. They have a long history. The pandemic has really taken a toll. Michigan as of now has the third most cases in the country and Detroit as one of the blackest and most segregated cities in the country is the epicenter of Michigan. Forty percent of the deaths have been black people. Jeez the only make up fourteen percent of the state's population. This is all according to the Michigan Disease Surveillance System and vital records. But then it's even more severe in Detroit Stephen. Right because the black population is seventy seven percent of Cova nineteen fatalities so steven. What's going on in Detroit and across your state? Yeah I mean for starters. It is just so sad. You're right now. It's really hard. I think to convey the depth of that emotion without without you being here to kind of feel it and see it. The city is is suffering is feels like the city is dying in in some very real ways because of the extent to which this is affecting us and of course. There are the familiar dynamics of systemic racism and systemic poverty. That have made it a lot easier for something like corona virus to affect people in our city very differently one of the most glaring examples I think is the the policy of water shut offs which yeah one of the worst ideas we've ever had here in the city of Detroit as a way to increase revenues to the water department. A few years ago they started again shutting off water to people who don't pay which means that a lot of people who don't have the ability to pay don't have freshwater in their houses and of course because poverty affects African Americans in a more profound way than it does other populations and because the city is so heavily African American. That means you have a lot of black people. Poor black people who didn't have access to water when this started. I think about what we're telling people you need to do to not get the corona virus. Wash your hands wash your hands. Wash your hands. Well if you don't have freshwater. Yep there's really no way to do that I could go on and on and on other examples of things that affect black people more right at make something like this more dangerous and it just it caught us. Flat-footed we we. We were not because of the way that we've dealt with these problems for our community for such a long time. We were not in a position to be able to toward this off to make sure that that a lot of people didn't get it. Also think of the ways in which poor people are not able to isolate this idea. Stay away from everybody. Don't go to the store. Don't go visit people at that. Looks really different when you are trying to to get by day to day and there are a Lotta people in this city who are and they have to do things they have to. They have to earn money. You or they have to go buy things at the store and they can you know. I go grocery shopping right now. I shopped for two or three weeks. Yeah not everybody's able to do that and an right so you just have of this mixture of of things that have made this wicked for Detroit. Yeah Stephen you say this is kind of revealing the ways in which we've dealt with these things in the past and then I think of my time in Detroit like deep in Detroit and I'm like the thing is is that it wasn't being dealt with before and what I mean it is that I mean abandoned communities poor communities where the poverty is staring you right in the face and there's the whole issue of you know if you don't see it it's not
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
Travel to the Mississippi Gulf Coast
"Let's talk about Mississippi's Gulf coast. I I like to welcome the show Charles. McColl from McCall Travel Dot Com and Charles's come to talk to us about coastal Mississippi Charles. Welcome mm to the show. Hi Chris how are you today. I'm doing well and we're talking about the state of Mississippi. What is your connection with coastal Mississippi? As a travel writer. I have visited the coastal Mississippi a few times over the past two years and after going there three or four times. I decided that I loved that area and other parts of the US Gulf coast. So much that I developed a new brand called. US Golf coast which covers everything from key. West South Padre but we are talking only about coastal Mississippi debut today so as a travel writer I covered it several times. Excellent and why should someone go to coastal Mississippi. We'll we'll talk about many things but it is is unique. The unique destination the United States. It has the longest continuous beach in the United States. Which I think a lot of people don't know I love road road trips? I travel all over the world. Love driving and there's this sense of soul fulfillment I drive on the Mississippi Gulf coast. I where it's just different than anywhere else. You can drive for an hour and not see anything except for the sand in the water is unobstructed by condos and indulge and restaurants. And what have you so this this great peace and calm and different than anywhere else. Excellent and what kind of itinerary tenorio you're going to recommend for us. It's not a singular destination. There are many communities there. So I'm GonNa recommend some things to do in each of the communities go along the coastal Mississippi. It's all still call the Mississippi Gulf coast. So I'M GONNA use both terms interchangeably. I don't want you to drive fifty miles in one day for lunch and then go drive fifty miles back so I will concentrate on the various communities and say all right first day. You're going to be here second day. You're going to be here and so on and we can do a three four five seven ten very well. Let's get into it where you're GONNA start it. Let's start in Pascagoula. So Mississippi is between Alabama and Louisiana China so coastal Mississippi represents the entire Mississippi Gulf coast so over on the east side closest Alabama Alabama. If you're driving from mobile the first thing you're gonna hit is Pascagoula. The city is probably most famous. because it's where Jimmy Buffett was born. Okay I did not I know that. Yeah so that's going to set the expectations for what the coastal Mississippi areas. All about thank Jimmy Buffett was born there so we're already at our five o'clock somewhere attitude. Pascagoula is also a navy base. So there's a lot of military and also industry the street going on there but it's it's a seafaring community. It's laid-back relative to some of the other cities. We'll talk about. Well what are we going GonNa do in Pascagoula one of the things that happened in past the goal of that as I guess lesser known as that one of the biggest UFO abduction stories in in US history happened there. So back in the seventies the couple of people claim that they were abducted by UFO. And so they were never disproven even so. That's one of the most famous things that happened in Pascagoula. Okay but other than being abducted by aliens. What am I going to do in Pascagoula for won a narrow down here to the the oldest house in Mississippi isn't Pascagoula okay? It's called the lapointe Krebs House and museum now so I went. There are a couple of months ago and I was fascinated by Howell. They showed the construction of how house was done in the bleed was the seventeen. Twenty s house was built the How they use the for the the hair from animals as insulation in the house and things like that kind of interesting Seventeen fifty seven. Is there anything specific renovated the Krebs House. We're going to go to the Krebs House. You could probably spend a couple of hours there. It's a nice waterfront setting and you can get some history of the. The natives that lived in the area and then European settlers came in and saw a whole history of Mississippi but the main point there there's to see the the house and the oldest house in the Mississippi Delta region I think between Minnesota and the Gulf of Mexico. It's the oldest house that's still in the American frontier. I'm thinking New Orleans would be older than that but I mean the city might be but I'm not sure if there's a structure that's older than point good point. The city is older but I don't know if there are any of original houses. Okay Fair enough. But another thing that I really loved in Pascagoula. The Motto Bon Center. I believe the official is the best. Gula River Audubon Bond Center captain McCoy Relation on McColl. And there's a captain McCoy and he runs nature trips out of the Pascagoula River River Audubon Center and what I loved about. It is that I learn things. Obviously like you learn on most trips but the Pascagoula River is the longest. And I'm not going to get the the terminology right. It's the longest une damned river in the continental united in a at states. Yeah so I was fascinated by that and I was like well. What about this wherever they were like now? It was dammed at some point. So the Pascagoula River I believe is four four hundred and eighty miles. That is natural the way it's always been so it hasn't been dammed. It hasn't been obstructed by any kind of construction directions so you can see wildlife and nature the way that it was several hundred years ago. Something didn't expect expect to find in coastal Mississippi or anywhere else and you say wildlife. I'm picturing talking marshes birds alligators that sort of thing. Am I in the right right ballpark. You're right and one thing that that's dominant in this area or the Mississippi sandhill cranes which are relatively large bird. I'm sure there are in other parts that states but there is a sandhill crane refuge that none in Pascagoula but on the other side so I tend cuts through through the area so from mobile bill to New Orleans. You would drive high tech Postal Mississippi. I'm talking about everything. South of I ten okay. North of town the Pascagoula River would go up there. And that's where the sandhill crane. Refuges the birds. No birds don't recognize boundaries. They fly all over the place. So you can see that. I was on the riverboat tour. Okay the AUDUBON center is like most centers they want to promote the natural wildlife and the scenery. And that's so forth and it's a really hidden gem. I think that most people don't recognize will in because it has the name Audubon on it. I'm assuming calmly talking about birdlife predominantly. So yes okay. I don't know if everybody knows. I mean Audubon as a as a charity I think is well known but Google Audubon. You'll find what is James Audubon. Is that the a original one who did all the original drawings of birds in the early. US That's really neat. Watercolors this fascinating realistic catches does right. So I mentioned captain McCoy so you could take his crews out of the audubon center also wrench around Kayak and I did did that one time and going at your own pace around the marshes fascinating at least a dozen gainers and as close they would just scatter into the water. So I love love doing that at my own pace to excellent and John James Audubon. I got it almost John James. Okay when I said early. I didn't realize how early he was. He was born in seventeen eighty five and so he was basically drawing birds up until about the Mexican American war. You're in the US. And so as the frontiers were being filled in a he was out there with his sketch pad. MOM IN ESTA goal. There's obviously the Jimmy Buffett stuff to the native son. A I think he this family left when he was three and then he grew up in mobile but he has come back and he recognizes Pascagoula his birthplace so there is a beach and a bridge and his childhood home are all named for Jimmy Buffett. The parrot heads can go and pay pilgrimage to Jimmy Buffett and go visit some of those sites and one of my favorite places the Pascagoula is called bozos grocery. It's a very old school from the nineteen fifties place where you go in you place your order and you wait inside. been there two or three times. The last time I went kayaking at the river Audubon Center. In fact I got a takeout L. Poboy from Bozo's grocery and then took it on the Kayak. But it's this old school place where you go in and you place your order and you order order off the menu. You don't make up stuff and there was some guy in front of me. That was a visitor and he wasn't a local either and so he went on these. ZAC Oh can I make this substitution. Know what's on the bed. Yeah and I was like basically your choices are you. You get what you WANNA shrimp boat boy. You want poboy poboy being sandwich. A sub someplace else or a hoagie or a hero depending on where you're from but a pavilion in this region of the world. Okay and shrimp being the best known. One that I now. They're also known for their Fried Oysters. Poboy so okay. I got a half in half half. It's amazing I had a couple dozen po boys and along the Gulf coast and I it's one of the better ones side totally recommend going to Bozo groceries to get to take out to go kayaking or he.
Retropod
The unstoppable Fannie Lou Hamer
"She walked with a limp. She had a blood clot behind her eye from being severely beaten in Mississippi jail. Her name was was Fannie Lou Hamer. She was the youngest of twenty children born to black sharecroppers in Mississippi and in late nineteen sixty four for president Lyndon B Johnson was absolutely terrified of her why she was about to make make an appeal before the credentials panel at the Democratic National Convention. The potential implications were profound. Hamer represented the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party a racially integrated coalition of delegates Hamer wanted to challenge the seats of the current aren't all white democratic delegation from their state saying that they were in violation of the party's rules because they had systematically excluded excluded black citizens according to Time magazine. Johnson was worried that Hamer speech could offend the Southern Democrats whose votes he needed for reelection he wanted her silenced but Hamer had a following that rivaled that of Dr Martin Luther Author King Junior and she would not go unheard. Hamer was born in one thousand nine hundred seventeen in the Mississippi Delta. The share cropping system kept her parents in debt and without enough food to feed their twenty children in the Winter Hebrew tied rags on her feet because she often didn't have shoes. She started picking cotton when she was six years old. Aw Hamer started her civil rights work in nineteen sixty one after she was sterilized without consent during what it should have been a minor surgery she tried to register to vote in one thousand nine hundred sixty two but was turned away after she failed illiteracy literacy tests which were used in the south to discourage black people from voting the clerk asked Hamer complicated questions like interpreting the state constitution after she failed the test. She told the clerk she'd be back when Hamer returned to the plantation in that day. She was fired from her job but she wasn't defeated. Hamer became a student nonviolent. Coordinating Committee a community organizer and helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in reaction to the lack of integration in the state's Democratic Party party as a candidate from the party. She ran for Congress in nineteen sixty four against democratic incumbent Jamie L whitten at that year's Democratic Democrat National Convention. Hey made her way to the stage through a crowd of men who refused to make space for her other members of the civil rights movement including Martin Luther King Junior spoke but all eyes were on her. She then talked for thirteen minutes Mr Chairman and to could dentures committee. My name is Mrs Fannie Lou Hamer. She called for mandatory delegation an integration and recounted her experience trying to register to vote. It was the thirty first of all the night being the eighteen of US travel. Put the six miles the county courthouse in in the normal tried to register to become first. I player Hamer describes being arrested in beaten in Mississippi jail after white waitress at a rest. Stop refused her service. That's how she got the blood clot. All of this is own account. We won't be registered to become first-class. NFL Freedom Democratic Party is not beating not after her testimony humor and other other Freedom Party members discovered that Johnson a wildly tough politician had held a news conference so that national television networks could he cover her testimony live. She was livid but Johnson's efforts to silencer didn't work that that night in a hot Atlantic City Hotel Room Hamer and the rest of the country watched her testimony broadcast in prime time on the evening news news less than a year later. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act and at the nineteen sixty eight convention in Chicago. He became team the first African American to be seated as a delegate. She received a standing ovation.
NPR's Business Story of the Day
Critics Question Trump Tax Plan Meant To Boost Struggling Communities
"Support for this podcast and the following message come from American pest open your doors, who healthy pest free home with American pest, offering safe environmentally friendly pest control solutions throughout the DMV for over ninety years. Learn more at American past dot net. Some American neighborhoods are struggling even in a strong economy. How much can a new tax break help them? NPR's Asia Roscoe reports standing in front of a massive crowd in Orlando last week. President Trump may this promise to help poor neighborhoods, we will expand opportunities Jones so that no community is ever left behind passes, the part of the twenty seventeen tax cut law. The opportunities owns program allows governors to make some low income areas in their state eligible for federal tax incentive, Trump often refers to the program when talking about what his administration has done for struggling rural and urban communities and as a part of his outreach to black America. Skins. The policy is also been championed by lawmakers, such as Senator Tim Scott a Republican, and Senator Cory Booker, a democrat running for president projects are underway throughout the country. On an empty lot and tippy Zona private equity investors in fficials gathered in the white tent for groundbreaking of the plane ninety unit affordable housing complex. Former Arizona governor Jan brewer spoke really thrilled to see all of you. Thank you so much for clear. There were shovels and symbolic tossing of dirt has particular property. If you look around, here's pretty blinded. You've got some dilapidated buildings. That's Quin Palomino CEO virtual partners the private equity firm, that's building the project do its opportunities own fund, and you have investors who would not have normally invested in this project. It's opportunities. Owns is really been an incredible tool. This is an old idea. That's been supercharged by the 2017 tax law. Stuart Butler is one of the conservative scholars credited with bringing the original idea of so-called enterprise zones to the US in the nineteen eighties Butler, who's now with Brookings Institution said the vision was to make it easier for people living in poor areas to be able to start businesses in their own neighborhoods. The second piece of it. Whereas to say, let's look at tax relief, and let's relief taxes reduced taxes on people who take the risk of investing in a poor and difficult neighborhood. Stays introduced. Their own versions of these loans in the federal government followed suit, launching the empowerment zones program in the early nineties backers of the new opportunities zone say they are totally different though program required states to compete for tax breaks in grants Butler, Greece's latest program is different and that worries them maybe they went too far in this current version. There are more than eighty seven hundred opportunities owns covering nearly thirty five million Americans and vessels can defer their capital gains taxes through twenty twenty six by putting their profits in opportunities zone funds that invest in these communities. The longer the investors keep their money in the fund the more tax benefits. They receive the concern is that wealthy people will pour money into these, multimillion dollar funds. But Butler says the development may not help low income residents. It's a -tracting the wrong kind of investment lodge scale investment, which may lead to far greater gentrification. And removal of people rather than the original intent of the enterprise zone idea. But these critiques are off base says Doron Smith. He's deputy director of the White House office of American innovation. Smith says local governments can work to protect their residents vacation and not something that's happening. Every city is not happening in, like the Mississippi delta right houses, very affordable down there. So for us to create economic development tool that tries to fix a problem only hurts us some urban areas. That's not smart. The White House has also set up a council to help target Federal Housing grants and other funds specifically for the tones. But it's unclear whether these owns will truly spur new investments, especially in places that were already on the upswing says Timothy Weaver, a professor at SUNY Albany, who has studied these types of programs people who were going to invest anyway. And now getting a tax break and to maybe you're gonna get shifting of investment from outside of zion's to inside of designs. And any the case what you'll likely to see our rent's going up for everybody, even some of the earliest opportunities zone supporters, say there needs to be more information about where the money is going. There are bipartisan bills in congress, that would require the government to track whether benefits are actually flowing to the communities that are in need. Isha Roscoe, NPR news, the White House support for this podcast and the following message come from NC TA, the internet, and television association, whose members are building the ten g network of the future that aims to deliver residential internet speeds of ten gigabits per second. More at ten g platform dot org.