The Sybil Wilkes PodcastWhat You Need To Know
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- Former President Obama knocked the White House response to his Cheesecake Factory jab at President Trump, calling the administration "not serious people." Campaigning in Georgia for Senator Jon Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms, Obama said officials mounted a government-wide response to a joke, not to inflation, though many families can barely afford to eat out. He had joked Trump's $900 million renovations made the White House look like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.
- David Crowley is leading Wisconsin's governor's race, but growing Black political fatigue could threaten it. Polls and voter interviews suggest Crowley may struggle to reach the Black support Democrats usually need to win the divided battleground state. Some Black Milwaukee voters say Democrats have taken their votes for granted for years, voting Democrat simply to keep Republicans out rather than because support was earned.
- Brennan Williams turned a passion for lemonade that began at age 9 into Brennan's Lemonade, perfecting his "Premium Blend" over years before bottling it in 2021. The Louisiana business is now in 11 stores, and Williams, a junior at Southeastern Louisiana University, plans to bring it to airports next. He says persistence is key, using failures as motivation.
- Fifteen-year-old Phillip Mullin of Alexandria, Louisiana, rang the bell at Manning Family Children's Hospital in New Orleans after a treatment his team called a functional cure for sickle cell disease. Hospitalized more than 100 times, he became Louisiana's first pediatric patient to receive the LYFGENIA gene therapy, and the second person in the state to get it. Sickle cell affects about 100,000 Americans, disproportionately Black Americans.
- On October 30, 1979, Richard Arrington was elected the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama. His run followed the killing of 20-year-old Bonita Carter, shot by a Birmingham police officer though she had committed no crime; a citizen review board ruled the shooting justified. Carter's death changed Birmingham politics and pushed Arrington to run for mayor.
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