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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bin News is hour. I'm Andrea Coleman coming up. The
US Supreme Court accepts the case involving a mistaken FBI
raid on a Black home. I passed conversation with Annanda
Luis about her breast cancer diagnosis, and the family of
a civil rights legend fights to keep his name on
a distinguished landmark. But first, here's Bion news. Now.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
About seven hundred Marines have been sent to Los Angeles
to support the National Guard, but are not on the
streets yet. They're expected to join by tomorrow.

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I pause it that maybe we are part of a
national experiment to determine how far the federal government can
go in reaching in and taking over power from a
governor power from a local jurisdiction.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Black mayor Karen Bass reported two hundred arrest overnight and
says the White House is out of line. R Kelly's
lawyers are asking President Trump to free him, claiming a
neo Nazi gang member trying to kill him in prison.
They say his life is in danger and want him
moved to home detention. Kelly is serving thirty years for
racketeering and sex trafficking, and starting January first, Oregon Health

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Plan patients with severe illnesses like sickle cell disease will
get access to gene therapies. The state joined a federal
effort to lower costs. Sickle cell mostly affects black and
Hispanic people, with over half on Medicaid. I'm Amber Payton
with BI in News, now back to you, Andrea.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Thanks Amber Welsome, encouraging news for a black Atlanta family
taking a case a case, the US Supreme Court is
reviving the family's lawsuit over a twenty seventeen mistaken FBI raid.
Trina Martin sued the government after federal agents executed a
search warrant at her home which was the wrong address,

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and she accused agents of assault and battery, fosse, arrest,
and other violations under the Federal Torque Claims Act. Toy
Klyatt was there that night and remembers the incident. Throw
me down on the ground on the floor right here.

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I was saying to myself, Oh my god, I believe.

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I got the wrong health federal judge dismissed the case.
Appeals court upheld that decision, and the case was then
taken to the US Supreme Court and a unanimous decision.
The justices have sent the case back to a lower court,
ordering it to re examine it. Martin told Atlanta News
First that she feels vindicated by this latest development, but
knows the fight continues well. As bii in and other

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media outlets have been reporting, former television hosts and model
Ananda Lewis has died at the age of fifty two.
Her death was confirmed Wednesday by her sister, who took
to social media, writing in part Lord Rest her Soul.
Last October, Lewis participated in a conversation with CNN Sarah
Sidtner and Stephanie Elam. Lewis and Sidney were both recovering
from advanced breast cancer, but chose different treatment plans. Sidner

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went a more traditional route, while Lewis chose a more
natural approach. Here's a clip of that discussion.

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My plan at first was to get out excessive toxins
in my body. I felt like my body is intelligent.
I know that to be true. Our bodies are brilliantly made.
I decided to keep my tumor and try to work
it out of my body a different way. Looking back
on it.

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I go.

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Blew Is revealed in twenty twenty that she was battling
breast cancer, admitting at the time that due to a
long standing fear of radiation, she had not been getting
regular mammograms. We will share more of that interview next hour,
when Lewis talks about if she regretted the treatment plan
she chose. A family members of slain Mississippi civil rights
leader Medgar Evers are vowing to fight the Defense Department

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plans to remove his name from a World War II
naval vessel USNS MegaR Edvers was christened in twenty eleven
by his widow, Marley Evers Williams, during a special ceremony
and San Diego Bay, where the battleship is currently docked.
Defense Secretary Pete Hexit says the decision to rebrand the
names of eight ships is an offensive against wokeness and diversity,

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equity and inclusion in the military. One of those ships
is also named after Harriet Tubman. According to WJTV, this
will be the second time Medgar Evers's name will be
removed from an American landmark our historic site. Last year,
his name was taken off a site of the website
for the Arlington National Cemetery. I'll stay informed, stay connected,
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your podcast. I'm Andrea Coleman for the Black Information Network