#RolandMartinUnfiltered - U.S. Joins Israel in Iran Strike. Texas Primary Showdown. SAVE Plan Survives Lawsuit

Episode Date: March 3, 2026

3.2.2026 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: U.S. Joins Israel in Iran Strike. Texas Primary Showdown. SAVE Plan Survives Lawsuit The U.S is facing a potential war after joining Israel and launching an attack on Iran. Newport News Mayor, Phillip Jones, a Marine Veteran, is here explain what this means for our country. Texas is gearing up for a big primary election tomorrow -- from statewide offices to local races, voters will have their say and set the stage for November. Texas Democratic Party Chair, Kendall Scudder, is here to discuss their strategy.  A temporary win for student loan borrowers. The SAVE Plan is intact for now after U.S District judges dismissed a lawsuit challenging the SAVE Plan. The Vice President and Federal Policy Director of the Center for Responsible Lending will explain what this means for borrowers. Reverend Jesse Jackson gets honored in his home state of South Carolina. We'll show you some of today's services from the state capitol.  Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We'll show you some of that, including Congressman Jim Clyburn, talking about there more than half of a century friendship. Also, war in war with Iran. Donald Trump says this may last four to five weeks. Iran, of course, is five. missiles and attacking other countries in the Gulf State. This could drive up gas prices, whether it's oil, whether it's natural gas. We'll talk about the implications of this latest military action by Donald Trump. Also in today's show, student loan borrowers get a win.

We'll tell you about that on today's show. Also, we'll talk about the issue of big election tomorrow, Texas, North Carolina. A lot of things at state. We'll talk with the Texas chair, the Democratic Party. Folks, it's time to bring the phone. I'm Roland on Filcher. On the Black Star Network, let's go. He's got.

Number 80th birthday as well. We'll be talking with a variety of people who are coming through here. We've, of course, always supported this effort. Of course, this started in New Orleans. We were there after Hurricane Katrina, where the longtime editor-in-chief of Essence magazine saw the importance of mentoring and begin to launch his product. They have, of course, chapters all across the country.

And so, again, the effort here is to raise money for this charity. Of course, we were broadcasting last year, and we're back again this year, and so we're happy to celebrate what's going on here. Now, while this is happening, right now, we are seeing Americans stranded in Dubai, as well as other Gulf states, after the United States and Israel launched an attack against Iran on Saturday. We've had, it's been an air war taking taking place, not only there, but also Lebanon, Dubai, so many other countries being impacted. Iran has been firing missiles at U.S. air bases in surrounding nations that have been supporting the United States in this effort. And so what we've seen, folks, is with Epic Furry.

They've been targeting officials, military commanders. They took out the Aitola Khomeini. He was killed some 86 years old. But the question is, what does the exit strategy? Today, Secretary of Defense Pete Hedgesan spoke about this war. To the media outlets and political left screaming endless wars, stop. This is not Iraq. This is not endless.

I was there for both. Our generation knows better, and so does this president. He called the last 20 years of nation-building wars dumb, and he's right. This is the opposite. This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission. Destroy the missile threat. the Navy, no nukes. Now, folks, it was interesting, of course, in 2016 when Trump was running, also in 2020 and 24. He often would ridicule Democrats by saying they were going to be taking

America to war. In fact, he even tweeted that, oh, if the poll numbers get low, Obama's going to attack Iran. Isn't that interesting? Here's what he said in 2024 about war. You're not going to have a war with me and you're not going to have a third world war with me. That I can tell you. A lot of conservatives have been criticizing him because he said no new wars, spoken against military actions, saying that it was wrong for what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan, costing taxpayers billions upon billions and trillions of dollars. I'm going to play a little bit more sound of this meandering news conference he had today where he was talking about was taking place in Iran. Danny, all of a sudden, turning talking about the drapes in the East Room. Absolutely bonkers news conference. A lot of folks have been talking about this year. The polling data, the war against Iran is frankly highly unpopular as well.

During us right now is the mayor of Newport News, Philip Jones. He served as a major in the Marine Corps, and he's criticized Donald Trump and his authority to initiate strikes in Iran. He's urging Congress to take action, but the reality is Republicans, control the House in the Senate that is necessarily that's not going to happen. Mayor Jones, glad to have you here. First and foremost, three American service members have died. Trump says this could be another four or five weeks.

Then he gives the New York Times, where he said, well, this would be very similar to what we did in Venezuela, where they took out the president, kidnapped him, arrested him, but then turned around and said, we're going to tell them how to run their country. That ain't going to work with Iran. No,

not at all. So, first of all, I just want to say, Roland, thanks for having an Omega on your show. Really appreciate it. I'm the mayor of Newport News, excited to be on. What I would say is this, this is not going to work with Iran. Think back to the history that we have with this country. We started a coup in that country in the 50s, along with Great Britain over oil. At the end of the 1970, there was an overthrow of a rebellion with the Shah.

We have been meddling with Iran for decades, and they are tired of it. But I would say is this. Number one, Iran is the chief sponsor of terrorism across the globe. Number two, they have killed tens of thousands of their own citizens. That being said, only Congress has war powers. So you say something that is critically important. A lot of people have no idea. As a matter of fact, I saw something earlier today on a social media account.

And they started talking about how this all began in 1979. when the Iranians overtook the United States Embassy. That's a lie. What people don't understand about this history. I was on Ricky Smiley's show this morning talking about this here, is that in 1951, in the culminating in 1953, where the United States, what we did is we stepped up and said to Anglo-Iranian oil, now known as BP,

when most a day the Democratic Prime Minister said they want to do an audit of the oil, because they were, frankly, they felt they were not getting enough money for their oil. Well, Anglo-Iranian oil, again, not on his BP, said, hell no, that's not happening. And it was Iranian oil that actually was building Britain during that particular time. They were sort of hesitant to take some action against most today. Our government, the CIA says, hey, we'll do it. So we start dropping flyers and other things causing instability in that particular country that led to a coup. We installed a Shah of Iran, who frankly was repressive, leader of that country.

and then that's with the overthrow in 1953. Now, Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, openly talked about we did the exact same thing. We undermine the economy in Iran, four minutes of dissent there, and now we see what's going on. And what I say is, we have to understand these things are complicated. Yes, Iran sponsors terrorism, but the reality is their complexities here in terms of their relationship with other countries. them firing missiles and airports in Dubai. Now you're shutting down airspace, and that's the hub all throughout the Gulf, connecting the rest of the world. So it's not as simple as bomb a country. Hey, they should get new leadership. Everything is great. We can walk away.

Hey, Roland, I think I lost you, but I'm back now. What I would say is, think back through the history. This has always been about oil in the beginning. We helped to overthrow a democracy pre-elected president, we installed the Shah, and then there was a revolution. So this has, you know, tendrils across history. What I would say is my biggest concern is that there are Americans that are now in danger. And number two, President Trump promised that we were not going to be in a forever war. There is no clear in-state to what's going to happen. All I see is violence. And when I talk to people in military or veteran towns, they're worried about their kids and their family. So one of the things that was just crazy today in this meandering news conference of Trump

is that not one time did he mention freedom for the Iranian people. Now, in the last month or so, he talked about that. And what people need to understand is that when President Obama was there, there was a deal negotiated regarding the Iranian nuclear program. Israel has always said Iran cannot get a nuclear bomb. And so what then happens? You have a deal. Trump comes in the first time, and he blows up that deal. Gets rid of a city wasn't a good deal.

And so now we're back to the drawing board. And so leaders in Amman said that Iran had agreed to every condition of the United States, but it was Trump at the behest of Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, who said, no, we want to bomb them. So we did. So what the hell is the whole point of having a negotiation if you're going to actually go to war? Now, if you're Iran, why the hell should I negotiate anything if you're going to go back on that? That's the position we're in right now. What I would say is one of the most important things of the, it's called the J.C. Coa.

It's like the joint comprehensive plan of action. That was the plan that Iran was going to use. We were going to lift some of the economic sanctions, and in turn, they were going to stop developing a nuclear power. So what I would say is when we pulled out of that, on a personal note, Iran could never have access to nuclear weapons. We know that's going to be a bad thing. But what the president has failed to do is there's no in-state. There's no plan. So all we've done is we've pulled out of the plan, and now there is no incentive for Iran to have anything to deal with us. And as I said before, Iran remains the number one state sponsor of global terrorism. That's killing Americans across the globe and killing

their own people, as well as with their proxies hurting all global citizens. So what I would say is We need to have a plan and we need to have some sort of war power resolution in the House or the Senate. We must have a co-equal branch of government. There are no kings here and America. Right. I mean, I absolutely agree with that. But what you have are Republicans who are saying Trump can do whatever he wants. This is what, again, this sort of just all over-the-place meandering news conference, here's some of what he said earlier today from the White House.

I can't hear. I'm still hearing Trump soundbite. So are we playing the video or not? I'm still hearing the sound. All right. Was there a technical issue with that, folks? Hold on one second. Okay, guys, let me know we had that fix it because I need to play that. The thing here, Mayor, again, that is confusing. I remember Colin Powell, late Colin Powell, retired general Colin Powell,

told George W. Bush, if you break it as yours when it came to Iraq, when it came to Afghanistan, that led to 20 plus years, the longest war ever in the United States. Billions upon billion, that was a trillion dollars spent as well.

And what do we get out of it? Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed. And so already in Iran, there was a school that was bombed, more than 150 girls were killed as well. So there are serious casualties when you go to war. So it's not just a question,

of earlier today Peter Hicks said was praying just for the American soldiers. It's not just what's the condition of Americans, but it comes down to what's the human toll that we have here. That always has to be considered when you talk about war. When I think about this,

I think about the U.S. as Gerald Ford, Fifth Fleet, which is based here in the Hampton Roads region, they're right now in the midst of this conflict. Think about the parents, think about the children. The president, promised there was going to be no more of these forever wars, and yet we find ourselves in conflict

after conflict. And as someone that served and someone that wears a memorial bracelet on my wrist to honor the fallen, we have to do better. We can do better. And I would keep calling upon Congress. We have to have some war powers resolution. We cannot let one person take us into war. The human toll is going to be costly. All right then, Mayor Jones surely appreciate you joining us. Thank you so very much. Folks, this is Donald Trump speaking earlier today from the White House. Keep in mind, we started this war while he was at Mar-Largo, palming around at some blitzie fundraiser.

Normally the United States goes to war. The person occupying the Oval Office is going to be actually at the White House of the Situation Room, not Donald Trump. But this is him speaking today from the White House. We provide a brief update on Operation Epic for. Today, the United States military continues to carry out large-scale combat operations in Iran to eliminate the grave threats posed to America by this terrible terrorist regime. Following our obliteration of Iran's nuclear program in Operation Midnight Hammer, a short while ago,

we warned Iran not to make any attempt to rebuild at a different location because there were a because they weren't able to use the ones that we so powerfully blew up, but they ignored those warnings and refused to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons. In addition, the regime's conventional ballistic missile program was growing rapidly and dramatically, and this posed a very clear, colossal threat to America and our forces stationed overseas. The regime already had missiles capable of hitting Europe, and our bases both local and overseas and would soon have had missiles capable of reaching our beautiful America. The purpose of this fast-growing missile program was to shield their nuclear weapon development

and make it extraordinarily difficult for anyone to stop them from making these highly forbidden by us nuclear weapons. We were the ones that were complaining. We were the ones that wanted it stop. But everybody was behind us. They just didn't have the courage to say so. An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat to the Middle East, but also to the American people. Our country itself would be under threat,

and it was very nearly under threat. I was very proud to have knocked out the Iran nuclear deal by President Barack Hussein Obama, that was a horrible, horrible, dangerous document. They would have had nuclear weapons three years ago, and they would have used it. Okay, folks, again, that Donald Trump is straight up lying there. Let me go to my panel at the Army Congo to being a senior professor of electric school of Air National Service, American University, author of Lies About Black People, How to Combat Races at a D.C.

Belmont Anderson, the creator of the public opinion, court and author of shut up in prosecutor of the Dallas, Eugene Craig, CEO, X-Factor Media. He's going to be joining us shortly as well. Oma Konga, I'm going to start with you. Let's be clear. Donald Trump just sat there and lied. Iran does not have any missiles that can reach the United States. That's simply a flat-out lie.

There is absolutely nothing in American intelligence that says that can take place. That's what you have going on, that he's throwing out. And again, no real rationale. When you talk about going to war, there should be, okay, what's the American interest for going to war? I don't see it, have not heard it. Roland, it's absolutely ridiculous. At least since 2015, American politicians have been saying that Iran is two weeks away from being able to have some type of nuclear weapon or some type of weapon that can reach the United States. It's been said under so many administrations.

And so, number one, Trump lied and fell for that and used that as an excuse. Number two, this is completely Israel pulling the strings of the United States government. Benjamin Niaou said it has been his life mission to get rid of the Iranian regime there, and the United States is helping him do that. So that's also... Canadian women are looking for more. More to themselves, their businesses, their elected leaders, and the world are of them. And that's why we're thrilled to introduce the Honest Talk podcast. I'm Jennifer Stewart.

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And lastly, we just see once again that Trump is not an honest broker. Just like they did last year if I ran, they were in the middle of negotiations. The representative from Oman, who was organizing this particular negotiation, said that he actually was in the United States, just met with J.D. Vance, and had a deal on the table that was better than Obama's deal, which is all Trump cares about is doing something better than Obama. And yet and still, while this man is still in the United States, before he could even get back home to Oman, Trump does this again. This is the ultimate distraction. This is the Wag the Dogg scenario taken away from Epstein and everything else. but it shows fundamentally that Trump is a violent man and he feels like he can bomb his way through anything.

And lastly, Roland, he said in one of his calls today that Venezuela is going to be the model and he's going to try to do what he did in Venezuela everywhere else in the world. Iran is not Venezuela. There's 90 million people there. Absolutely. Yeah.

Yeah, first of all, it absolutely makes no sense. The Venezuelan government is not the same as Iranian government. You're talking about the Mullahs. talking about the extremists. Let's be probably clear. We're not making excuses for them. There's some estimates that some 30,000 people were killed when they shut down protests there.

So we know what's happening there. But the bottom line here, I'm going to bring Thelma in here, is that when you do this, you have to factor in all of the implications. When we start talking about war, again, we're seeing right now, Iran firing

missiles at Dubai, firing missiles at Jordan, firing missiles at Qatar. So now of a sudden, those countries are now brought in. Hezbollah, who Israel decimated in Lebanon, they now are back engaged as well. And so now Israel is firing on Hezbollah in

Lebanon. They're also attacking United States and Israel are attacking Iran. So there's this idea of you're having this one war against Iran, you've now brought in four, five, eight, ten other countries, and we don't fully understand

the implications of this expanding. war. The implications are already detrimental. We have lost American lives. We have seen how detrimental it has been to innocent little girls. At what expense, the expense is too great and too massive for us to sit back and allow this to happen to go to war without getting congressional approval. And then to be hunker down at Mora Lago celebrating going to a party while we have military out here giving their lives to protect a country that does not protect them. I don't understand how these people think that this is okay for our country to put other countries at risk and then come back and put us at risk from inflation.

We got innocent military men and women putting their lives on the line. We have individuals over here that are losing family members and are afraid. We have individuals in other countries that are stranded and don't know if there are going to be casualties of war because of an idiotic president that is trying to create a distraction from us finally seeing him for the monster that he is with this. Epstein. This is an Epstein-induced war. Nothing more, nothing less. Well, again, Trump tells the New York Times, hey, another four or five weeks. The question is, how much damage will be done in the next four or five weeks? I was going to keep covering this here. Got to go to a break. We come back. Lots of more to talk about. Huge elections taking place tomorrow in Texas and North Carolina. Other primaries are happening

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issue. Now, of course, remember President Joe Biden offered significant significant. significant relief for student loan borrows. And so that's one of the issues we're dealing with as well in today's show. And so I want you to stay tuned for all of that that we want to deal with. But I want to go back to, first of all, has Eugene Craig joined us. Let me know if Eugene has joined us. Okay, so Eugene be joining, so Eugene will be joining us shortly.

And so we'll cover those stories later. But folks, today in South Carolina, all eyes were on that state as a native son return home, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., who passed away. Of course, we before last, the age of 84, lying in state in South Carolina. There was a ceremony that took place to there. A number of dignitaries were there speaking, including Ambassador Andrew Young, because of the cold in Chicago, he's not going to be able to make the funeral taking place there this Friday, but he spoke there as well. And among those speaking, was Reverend Jackson's longtime friend, Congressman Jim Clyburn, and he talked about their relationship and how close they

work. These remain. Jesse Lewis Jackson and I attended rival high schools. He up at Sterling in Greenville, I at Matho Academy in Camden, we played football and basketball against each other. Our teams did. He was the star quarterback at Sterling. I was a prolific benchwoman at Mather.

But the rivalry was there. He could play and I could yell. And then that relationship extended and even became more intense. When he decided to go to North Carolina A&T, And I went to South Carolina State. We had an intense rivalry. But then independent of each other, we both made a decision to become a member of Omega-Syfine fraternity. And it was in that brotherhood that we developed a love and respect that lasted throughout the ages.

His mother, Helen, was one of my best friends. Jess and I had to get along because Helen will get it. When I ran the statewide office, she and Lada Gibson would fry chicken when I was in Greenville. But when I was down in Georgetown, I never should forget the night we kicked off a big rally in Georgetown. And I looked at who was walking into the door of that church with Helen and Lada Gibson had driven all the way from Greenville to Georgetown to help me launch my political career. I had no way of knowing that I would live to serve in Congress with their grandsons. And I, our children, would develop a friendship.

When I walked over to speak to Jesse Jr. just a few minutes ago, he says, I've been talking with Mignon, my elders. This is a friendship that span generations. opened the program two nights ago, quoting from an iconic pamphlet. Words written at the time this country was trying to give birth to itself. 1776. In about five months, we are going to be celebrating the 250th anniversary of this country's existence. And I quoted Thomas Cain's famous words. And he wrote, these are times the try men's souls.

Summer soldiers and sunshine patriots will in the crisis shrink from the service of their country. But he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman for tyranny like hell is not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation with us that the harder the conflict, the more glorious, the triumph. because Jesse Louis Jackson was not a summer soldier. He was not a Sunshine Patriot. He stood the times. And because of his efforts, I am able to sit where I sit today, I can remember those battles to get rid of when or take all elections.

Who precipitated that? Jesse Lewis Jackson. I don't care. Well, anybody may say you to the contrary. Worried not for proportional voting in our primaries. Barack Obama never would have gotten a nomination to be president to the United States of America. It was when we got rid of those winners took all elections

that Jesse was the precipitator of. I hear people talking all the time these days about proportional voting and how new that is. Ain't new. Jesse gave birth to it all. And so I'm pleased to be here today and to be a part of this service and thank this family

for what they have meant to me and my family. an emotional connection. So folks, there are not going to be a funeral here, Washington, D.C. on Wednesdays. It's Biden's returning to Chicago. We will be on the ground broadcasting live Thursday in Chicago. And, of course, the public funeral will be taking place on Friday, the House of Hope, and the private funeral taking place on Saturday there at Rainbow Push. As I said, we're here at Susan Taylor's National Careers.

Gail, look who decided to pop on by. Sonny Hopston from the view. She came on by. Sonny, I'm going to go hold that right there. You'll hold that right there. I saw you. Well, you know, we tried to as well. Just slide this way here.

I'm usually watching. I got you. Same. Same. But we just talked about Reverend Jesse Jackson Senior. Of course, they've been in South Carolina. And I don't think, and I can't say this for years. I don't think people really, our people really understand how huge of a loss this is.

How many industries he impacted, especially media. Media, education, civil rights. civil rights. I mean, I think the list goes on and on. We lost a true giant. I mean, this is someone who, you know, ran for president and came pretty close. I think that's something that people don't remember. They don't remember that he was Martin Luther King Jr.'s right hand in many respects. And he taught little girls, I mean, I'm boys, I'm old enough to say, I remember the I am somebody. I remember that. And I had the pleasure of knowing him. with him and he never stopped. He never stopped just representing us, fighting for us.

And it's a huge loss. I actually don't think, not you, but let's say mainstream media, or whatever you want to call it, they're just not doing his legacy justice. Nope. They're not. No, they're not. But that's one of the reasons why I've always said you've got to have black on media to tell our story because we can't count on somebody else to tell your story. Absolutely. And perfect... Can you do it so well?

I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Perfect example. Even being here. Look, what Susan Taylor has done, this is a combination of her 8th birthday, but also supported this effort, and how they have touched so many young folks nationally

with men who desperately needed. Yes, with cares. I mean, I've known Susan Taylor for a very long time. She's someone that has reached out to me consistently. We talk often. And she supports me in ways that so many don't. When I first took a job at the view, she was one of the first phone calls that I got. And through the years, she has reached out to me just checking in, asking, are you okay?

Are you okay? And that's something that we do for each other. You and I do that for each other. I think people forget we work at CNN together. But Susan Taylor is also an icon, a legend, has impacted me personally, but so many people. so many young people personally and she continues the work I mean it's her 80th birthday right she doesn't look like she's slowing down I don't know I adore her that's why I had to be here tonight all right well son is good to see you look

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All eyes are on Texas. Big primary tomorrow, March 3rd. Early voting ended on Friday. Massive turnout all across the state. You have a state representative, James Telerico, running against Texas, Houston, sorry, Dallas Congresswoman, Jasmine Crockett. They're vying for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate.

On the Republican side, you've got MAGA, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson, running against incumbent Senate, MAGA Senator John Cornyn, the MAGA Congressman Wesley Hunt. And so that could go to a runoff. But really what we'll love you will focus on what happening in Texas. And so let's talk about that. And again, being a native Texan, you know we focused on that. We've been talking about it, lots to deal with.

And so massive amounts of energy that we're seeing as well all across Texas with the turnout. Kendall Scudder is the chair of Texas Democratic Party. Kendall, I'm glad to have you on Roller Martin unfiltered. Let's talk about this, look, it's a massive state. 254 counties. So much attention is obviously focused on the Big Five. Of those Big Five, Dallas County, Harris County, Bayer, Travis, and then Tarrant County, the last large, Red County.

But it's 249 others. And so it's really important for a Democratic candidate to actually do well in those counties because typically that's what Republicans have beaten Democrats in Texas by running the margins up in those smaller but very important counties. That's absolutely correct. And a challenge that the Texas Democratic Party is facing the past is that they've just been getting out organized. I mean, if you look at the state of Texas, only 36% of our precinct chairs are full.

And if you look at the counties, about 20% of them are sitting vacant with no county chair. That's nobody's fault by our own. And I think that the party needs to take a serious look in the mirror and make sure that they remind themselves, you can't just lock yourself in a room in Austin and buy your way out of the problem. This is about organizing people from the ground up. And that's what we've been working to do. When you have high turnout like we've seen in this election, it gives us more data to work from because in Texas you don't register as a Democrat or a Republican when you register to vote. And so we only have that information based on which primaries you vote in. So big wave primaries like

this one give us a lot of data to work with where we can continue to build in every corner of this state, 254 county strategy leaving nobody behind. On that particular point, when you say a 254 county strategy, listen, I'm born and raised there. My parents born and raised there. All my family is there.

When you talk about people, when you talk about working elections, listen, you've got 2 million or so, eligible underage of Latinos. You've got the most black eligible voters of any state in the country. And when you look at the last election, more than a million African-Americans

who didn't vote, Actually, when Colin I already ran against Ted Cruz, some 1.2 million. And so what I've always said is that we look at the state, 6% minority, black, Latino, Asian American, Native American, yet 60% people who vote in Texas are white. And so if Democrats are going to have any chance, they've got to have a 365-day year-round effort to really get deep and register voters in the state. but not before I get them registered, touch them, talk to them, explain what they can do. Otherwise, Democrats are going to get Molly Watt. The last Democrat to win statewide in Texas was an African American, Morris Overstreet,

while the Court of Appeals, that was in 1994. That's right. That's right. And here's the thing. A bunch of well-intended white liberals for a long time have been leading the charge in Texas, and that is just, frankly, not going to get a lot of. us there if you aren't incorporating communities that are actually the majority of this state. And so if you're putting together a plan on how to turn people out in East Texas, it's not

going to be a successful plan if you aren't going into black communities. If you are putting together a plan to turn out voters in West Texas, it's not going to be a successful plan unless you're going into Hispanic communities, right? And it feels as if the party has been kind of void of that strategy in the past. So what we have to do is empower people on the ground to be able to put these plans and programs together for us. We're going to have 12 coordinated campaign field offices around the state for the first time this year. We've already opened five of them. We've got more to go by June. We just launched a $30 million coordinated campaign with funds already secured where we've already gotten 160 elected official partners around the state of Texas.

We're changing the way we've operated in this state because we can't keep operating like it's amateur hour. We've got to operate like we're a serious state. If we don't have a long-term plan, not just for this election, but looking down the line to 2032, if you aren't looking that far ahead, then you're failing this country and you're failing to meet a moment. Because after 2032, if North Carolina, well, Texas isn't in play for the presidency, Democrats don't get elected president. Yeah, and it's understanding the map because, again, if you look at the 2030 census expected, blue states will lose by 11 electoral college votes.

And so Democrats are going to then have to win Arizona and Nevada or flip, Georgia and North Carolina to be able to compete. Let's talk about money. 2008, highly contested the election, lots of energy. A lot of people really thought Texas was going to, Democrats were going to pay a lot of attention. Then Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Barack Obama, really generated lots of attention.

But what ends up happening? Then Obama wins, and then Texas simply became money banks. He would fly into the state, just like Joe Biden would do. they will come in, raise money, and then leave. And I kept saying, listen, you've got to be able to fund this stuff. And so what are you saying to, you know, big money interest in Dallas County, in Harris County, in Harris County, in Bayer, in Travis, in Tarrin, in West Texas, in South Texas, that the only way this gets done if they are funding, organizing, and mobilizing around the clock. That's right. So I'm a farm kid from East Texas.

And so, you know, maybe it's just the mentality that I was raised with, but I'm sick and tired of the party sitting around and waiting for national partners to come in and save us. At some point, we just have to roll up our sleeves and get it done. And, you know, what I'm telling those partners are, you know, if you want to help nationally, that's fine, but we need to take care of the home front here. And this isn't going to happen overnight. You're not going to wake up in November. And suddenly the Democrats have won every single office in Texas. It is going to take cycle over cycle of building this. I think we have an opportunity for some wins this year.

I do. If I'm in Vegas, am I putting my money on it? It's probably not probable, but I do think it's possible. But we build now so that we can have success later. If we are constantly funneling the resources we have into TV, that's not building long-term gains. That's not organizing a working-class army in every corner of this state. That's not showing up into communities that have felt disenfranchised. and ignored by this party for so long and showing them that we are showing up for them.

That is how you have to change the strategy on its head in order to find success, in my opinion. Last question I have before I go to the panel with their questions. And look, you've got lots of online stuff going back and forth between Tala Rico supporters and Crockett supporters. You've got all these questions being raised about, well, is she electable? Is he better reaching out across the aisle? You're going to have to reconcile these sides. It's going to be a lot of hurt feelings after tomorrow night once we find out who wins.

Are you prepared to do that because, again, listen, you've got a lot of folks who are African-American who are pissed off, who will serve a lot of white progressives are saying. You've got Latinos who are upset with comments that Congresswoman Crockett has made. And so are you understanding the role that you can have to play to say, hey, I got to keep this thing together with the massive turnout in the primaries. You're going to need that in more.

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primary we had in this state was treasurer Ann Richards, Governor Mark. White and Attorney General Jim Maddox. They all ran against each other, calling each other Cokeheads and fraudsters, and it was really vitriolic. And it took a lot of uniting, but I'll remind you, the Democrats won in November in that election. And so these primaries get people excited and involved, but it's our obligation to make sure that the people who may not find themselves successful or might fall short on election day, they have to understand they're still welcome at the fold. There's always a seat at the table for everyone who's willing to respect everybody at the table here at the Texas Democratic Party. And we have to put in the work to earn

those people's support and shouldn't just expect that they're going to come back to us. It's about not taking any voter for granted and showing up and expecting to have to earn it. All right. It's got a question for the panel. Phelma, you're there in Dallas. You get to ask the first one. Good evening. One of my questions is Senator Round the importance of maintaining or retaining Democrats in the party who are sick and tired of being seeking tired. So one thing that I've noticed, there's a lot of distrust that is within the Democratic Party because I know from my lens, I'm seeing a lot of pay to play that is coming from the apex or when our party openly accepts individuals who switch from Republican to come and

fuse and disrupt the Democratic candidates who are legitimate Democrats. And we sit on the sidelines and allow this to happen. I see it in Dallas County, in the district attorney's race with Cruz O' been a former Republican, now a Democrat, and I'm standing with Tala Rico being funded by APEC in order to come in and manipulate an election in order for them to come in and create the next Chuck Schumer. what are you all doing to regain that trust so that what we are seeing would not continue to happen, especially in the dangerous times we are in and the political games that are being played? That question, and you're speaking my language here.

I wouldn't have run for leader of the party last year. I was the first new chair that the parties had in 13 years got elected last year. I wouldn't have run if I was happy. I ran because I was one of those people who was pretty pissed off at the way that the party carried itself. I'm from the progressive wing of the party. And I feel it's unacceptable for a party to negotiate the way to negotiate away the things that are important to our base and to constantly try to grovel towards the center.

One thing Republicans understand that Democrats don't is that your base are the ones who brung you, and they're the ones that you need to stand for and fight for. what I tell candidates all across the state, they don't have to agree with me. I don't get to tell them what to do, but I will say, I don't want to see a single one of them going around the state talking about preserving social security. They should be talking about expanding social security. They shouldn't be talking about making sure people get to see a doctor when they're sick. People should be able to see a doctor before they get sick. We are supposed to be a party that is unapologetically on the side of working class people that will take on whatever billionaire,

whatever banker, whatever boot-looking bastard we have to to make sure the little guy gets his seat at the table. And we have not been that as a party. We have been a party defending institutions because we were patriotic Americans who loved it and didn't want to see Trump tear it apart. But we have to recognize real quick that there's a reason that 1.1 million Democrats who voted in 2020 state home in 24. It was because they felt like we negotiated them away and negotiated away the things that were important to them. So the strategy that I take is I need to make sure that our base understands that when you are a member of the Texas Democratic Party, we value our base, and we're going to hold our Democrats accountable to make sure they're doing the right thing. That's why I fought so hard to make sure we were pursuing the quorum break last summer, where we were able to end up getting Prop 50 passed in California and get these districts really drawn, because it's essential for us not to just grovel and do everything we can to get crumbs. people elected us to throw down and fight.

And that's the role that I think the party has. And that's the space we should occupy. I've got a... All right, folks. I've got about three minutes left. I got two questions to ask. Eugene Craig, your question. Gene Craig, I'm one of those former Republicans.

There you go. There you go. Do you hear me? Can you hear me? Okay. I guess my question is that says as a Republican that crossover for Kamala and so goes Kamala, so go I.

My question is is, are y'all prepared to go to hell? and going to go to a deeper hell when it comes to Kim Paxton. If he's so, the nominee, another side. One of the things that, like, that's frustrated me about Democrats, especially being a Republican that came up in the 2010 era up until now and whatnot,

is that when it comes to this, this is a zero-sum game. And I need y'all to go to complete hell and then beyond. Drag him from El Paso all the way up to the borders of Texas and back to make sure you can just go over the finish line. So my question is, as a chairman,

are you willing to go to complete hell when it comes to Paxton? Because there's more than enough there to really the carpet bomb and turn off folk. And really, I mean, this should be a cakewalking of your people over the kind of slime with Paxton on the top of the ticket. Ken Paxton is a certified garbage person. Yeah, Ken Paxton is a certified garbage person. And if we as a party aren't willing to drag him and his terrible behavior, things like cheating on his wife with a married mother of seven,

if you aren't willing to stand up on a stage and to throw punches at the attorney, then you don't deserve to be a leader in our party. I know that sometimes that can be scary to folks, but the reality is people are counting on us to meet this moment, and people like Ken Paxton are not worthy of public office. I'm a Congo. Your question. So many people talk about the Democrats being energized because of Tala Rico and Crockett,

but I wonder if you also was seeing a level of energy surrounded all of the shenanigans last year with all of the gerrymandering as well that was attempted, is that getting people even more? energized I think that Crockett and Tala Rico both of course have a huge play into things but I'll remind you that just a month ago without Tala Rico or Crockett on a ballot we just overperformed the Democrat or the Republicans by 31 points in a district sd9 and in Tarrant County and won it there's palpable energy on the

ground here in Texas so regardless of who the nominee is they're both phenomenal candidates and if we can unite this party and focus on the things that we have in common I think that we're going to to be in store for some really good things in November, not just because it's owed to us, but because people have seen what Republicans have delivered, but we have to offer something that is different. We can't just sit and say those guys are bad. We have to stand firmly on the side of working class people and unapologetically fight to make sure that it doesn't matter what your zip code is, you should be able to go and see a doctor. Doesn't matter what your zip code is,

you should have a high quality public school. And whenever we start fighting for people unapologetically like that, in addition to how bad the Republicans are, I think that energy is going to carry us to November. Tamron? All right. Sorry, folks. I'm here at first of all, Kendall. I appreciate it.

Thanks a lot. I'm here at Susan Taylor's National Care's mentoring gala. So we're sort of monitoring two things at one time. I appreciate it. We look forward to tomorrow. I already voted. I flew in the Dallas Friday before last and voted. And so we can't wait to see what happens tomorrow.

We'll be monitoring. The nation's going to be monitoring what happens in Texas. Appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Thank y'all. Appreciate you having me. All right, folks, going to a quick break. We come back. I'll be chatting with Susan Taylor here in New York City, the National Cats Vendering Gala. Like I say, Tamara Hall is here.

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Have you noticed these massive banners hanging from the Department of Education, including a banner of Charlie Kirk? This is looking like North Korea. So they put these banners up, Booker T. Washington, Charlie Kurt, and others. I don't know what the hell that's about. That's what Donald Trump is doing. And it's absolutely crazy. And this is about it was a college dropout, absolute racist, who said that, frankly,

going to college was an absolute. waste of time. So I can't make out what that's all about, but that's that's what we're dealing with here in this country. All right, folks, let's talk about one of the other issues. Before we go to our next guest, there was a young man who was on this show, played quarterback at Bethune Cookman. He tragically was killed over the weekend a single car accident. His name is Dominique Ponder. He had transferred to Colorado, 23 years old. He lost control of his 2020. He lost control of his 2003 Tesla around 3 a.m. In Boulder County, he struck a guardrail and electrical pole before rolling down in the

bankman and catching fire. He was pronounced dead at the scene. As the best of the saying, speed was a factor. Again, it was a third year sophomore from Opelock, Florida. He transferred from Buffon Cookman to Colorado. And so he was on our show three years ago with his parents talking about the Ed Reed controversy when he was hired, well, not hired. And, well, was he let go?

Was all sorts of back and forth? that took place there. And so this young man, you know, we appreciated having him on the show. He was very outspoken and vocal about the critical issues. And, you know, it's just, you know, bottom line is tragic.

Dominique Ponder, yo. He was just 23 years old. All right, folks, on Friday, a U.S. District Judge in the Eastern District of Missouri dismissed the multi-state lawsuit challenging the save plan. Judge John Ross, the case was moot because both parties no longer held opposing legal positions. Education, of course, is now legally required to Department of Education.

They are legally required to administer the plan, allowing borrowers to benefit from lower monthly payments of the faster forgiveness, at least temporarily. Matrio Spitzer, the vice president and federal policy director of the Center for Responsible Lending joins us right now. I'm glad to have you here. Matrio, first of all, walk us through this here, and so what is the impact on the vice president? borrower because the Trump folk, they were trying to move it to commerce or treasury. They were doing all sort of crazy things and not having an administrator in the Department of Education. Yeah, well, no, first of all, thank you so much for letting be here today, Roland, to talk about

this ruling. I have to tell you that the jury is actually still out on what the ultimate impact is. And that's because right now, the administration has been very, very silent about their next steps. The reality is that they can choose to appeal the judge's ruling. And if so, we'll be back in court once again. But if they do not, the other alternative is that they could issue a rulemaking and try to stop the safe program that way. And then finally, just as a matter of law under the big brutal bill passed by this administration last year, in July 1st, 2028, the safe program will terminate as a matter of law anyway.

So the truth is, is that right now for the 7 million student loan borrowers who are still on the. SAVE program. They're very much in limbo. And so for the borrower, okay, what is the impact right now? What happens to them? Or they just sort of waiting to see this for this court stuff to finish? So the answer is that yes, because the administration has not acted to fully reinstate the SAVE program. However, that does not mean that borrowers should not try to reach out to the administration and request activity on their program. So it remains to be seen yet if borrowers are still going to be permitted to make payments consistent with the SAVE

program or whether or not they are actually going to receive forgiveness that's required under the SAVE program. And that's just because the administration has been silent as to what their next steps are. Last question, in terms of how should borrowers be preparing for themselves right now. What should they be doing depend upon what direction this thing goes in? Right. Well, so there are a couple of things that I would encourage borrowers to do. The first thing is

that because the same program itself will actually expire as a matter of law, right now individuals who are actually on the state program are in forbearance. That forbearance was actually established by the Biden administration. However, under the current administration

that people who are enrolled in the state program are actually paying interest during their forbearance period. So ultimately, borrowers who are actually in the state program need to move to a different program, whether that be interest-driven repayment, which also has a 20 to 25-year repayment period. And then, of course, there's a much less favorable program being put forward by the administration and the repay program. So on a long-term basis, borrowers need to move. On a temporary basis in terms of those who actually are close to qualifying for relief immediately under the SAVE program, the answer is, to be candid with you, they need to stay tuned to what's happening in the case and see what the administration's next move is, because they might, in fact,

if you were close to relief, incur a legal right to receive that relief based on the court's ruling. I wish I had some fair answers for you. It's all good. It's all good. Let me go. questions from my panel. Let me start. Let me start with Omicongo. Thank you so much for this. This is very helpful for someone like myself, you know, student loans, grad school and all that type of stuff. So the question I have for you, honestly, like, given your expertise and everything that you have seen, how optimistic are you that this administration is not just going to try some other shenanigans to try to stiff people and garnish their wages, you know,

regardless of what these courts say. Yeah. You know, there's no denying the fact that this administration has refused to comply with the law, and it's especially true within the Department of Education. We've had to take them to court a number of times. The bright spot is that every time we take them to court, they lose, and then they're forced to actually comply again. But you're right, they always come up with some sort of bruise.

The thing that I would say to you again is if you are close to receiving a relief under the SAVE program, it is really important that you pay attention to the particulars of the case. However, if you have an extended period of time still left on your student loan forgiveness under an income-driven repayment plan, ultimately, because the program itself expires in July of 2028, you need to move to a different program. Do you believe that the pressure behind this, behind them removing this? relief for student loan borrowers were on the racial side of things because we know that African Americans carry a lot of student loan debt because of qualification issues, whether it's your

parent, you being a first time college student, or your parents don't have the funds to send you to college, you don't qualify for scholarships. So we know that primarily African Americans or even other minorities utilize the student loan aspect of funding their education. So when I'm looking at it from the outside, I'm like, this seems like this is a target to try to continue to withhold African Americans or minorities to keep them in a melting pot for them to stir in order to keep them depressed into a system that, is going to continue to have them in debt. Yeah. No, I think that's a really important point. And there is no denying that this administration has certainly attacked people of color and especially African Americans through all of its DEI policies and especially its attack on higher education, which, interestingly

enough, seems to be uniform regardless of race. This is an administration that is against higher education in general. But the one thing that I think we have to consider when we think about the administration's policies is that we actually have the highest unemployment rate for African Americans in the United States right now since the pandemic in 2021. There is an affordability crisis that continues to kind of permeate despite the administration's acknowledgments for almost every American. And you have African Americans who have a higher student loan debt because of the historical discrimination against us and the lack of wealth that we have been able to receive as a result of that discrimination. When you put all of those

things together, it creates a perfect storm. And that perfect storm, you're right, has definite impacts for African-American families and young African-Americans who are actually just stepping out into the labor and employment force. And so on a long-term basis, making modifications to the student loan program, creating an income-driven repayment program that works and is affordable for people has to be the goal, and it is an important component of how we achieve economic mobility and justice in the United States for African Americans. Eugene. In that, you're fighting a legal fight, but ultimately the program expires in 2028.

Do you think that, you know, probably the best solution moving forward is going to be an act of Congress to solidify things? Yeah, and I think that ultimately, obviously it was an act of Congress that undid the SAVE program, and there's certainly hope that under the incoming Congress, there might be an opportunity to revisit these issues. And then also, to be candid with you, there will be efforts to, once again, even stop the administration's new proposals in the courts. And we will certainly continue to play a part in that. All right, then. Well, we're surely appreciated, and just keep us abreast to exactly what happens. Thanks a lot. All right, then. Folks, we're going to go to a commercial

break. The program has already started here in New York City. We're going to come back with headlines with Britney Noble. More right here on Rolla button unfiltered on the Black Sunnet Network. Hatred on the streets, a horrific scene. A white nationalist rally that descended into deadly violence. White people are losing their headlines. We approach from mob storms the U.S. Capitol. We're about to see the rise of what I call white minority resistance. We have seen white folks in this country who simply cannot tolerate black folks voting. I think what we're seeing is the inevitable result of violent denial. This is part of American history.

Every time that people of color have made progress, whether real or symbolic, there has been what Carol Anderson, that every university calls white rage as a backlash. This is the rise of the proud boys and the boogaloo boys, America, there's going to be more of this. This country is getting increasingly racist in its behaviors and its attitudes because of the fear of white people. The fear that they're taking our jobs, they're taking our resources, they're taking out women. This is white fear. With medicine and science under attack, I want to keep you and your family informed and healthy. I'm Dr. Ebony Hilton, and I knew at the age of eight that I wanted to be a doctor. So I studied hard and became the first African people.

American female anesthesiologist hired at the Medical University of South Carolina since this opening in 1824. And I always say I was made into a doctor, but I was born to be a mom. And as a new mom, wife, sister, daughter, and friend, I understand how frightening and medical crisis can be. I care for individuals on some of the worst days of their lives. And it's my mission to provide you with a safe space to gain clarity on issues affecting your mind, body, and soul. I recognize that there are health disparities, particularly as it contains your race. And I want to help bridge the gap between you and your health care providers. Join me every Thursday for second opinion on the Black Star Network,

where each week I'll invite experts from various medical fields to share the latest health events. We'll discuss topics such as a vaccine debate, mental and central health, medical bias, infertility, menopause, andropause, nutrition and aging. Together with my medical colleagues, we aim to provide you with a second opinion. Don't miss it Thursdays only on the Black Star Network. I'm Brittany Noble, Midwest-born HBCU educated with experience in newsrooms across the country. I've teamed up with Roland Martin to bring to you the breakdown. This isn't just news.

It's our stories, our voice, our community. Join me for the breakdown Monday through Friday at midday, only on the Black Star Network. TV Jakes and you are watching the Black Star Network. A 2022 survey has identified between 60 and 88 unmarked burial sites in Stafford County, Virginia, believed to contain the remains of enslaved Africans. The Brent family once owned the land dating back to the 1600s. Previous archaeological digs conducted between 1995 and 2002 also revealed additional unmarked graves near a brick wall and along a slope leading to a swampy area.

Researchers are currently working to locate historical records and descendants related to the enslaved individuals buried at the site. No excavations will take place without the support of those descendants. In the meantime, the site will be monitored to protect the graves from erosion. Well, more justice for the estate of Henrietta Lax, the black woman whose immortal cells revolutionized modern medicine. Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, has settled the lawsuit filed by the Lax Estate, which accused the company of unjustly profiting from heila cells. These cells were taken from lax cervical tumor at Johns Hopkins Hospital without her knowledge back in 1951. At that time, she was a 31-year-old mother of five when doctors at Johns Hopkins removed her cancer cells during treatment.

Her cells became the first immortal human cells capable of growing in the laboratory and being reproduced indefinitely. For more than 70 years, lax cells have contributed to significant medical breakthroughs, including the polio vaccine, genetic mapping, and COVID-19 vaccines. Despite this, the Lax family never received any compensation until recently. Johns Hopkins claims that it never sold or profited from the cell lines. Many companies, including Novartis, have planted methods for using them, patented methods for using them. And this settlement marks the second lawsuit, resolved. by the laxas a state, which alleges that biomedical businesses have benefited from a racially biased medical system. Well, New York Mayor Zohan Mamdani set the record straight. Black New Yorkers

helped build New York City. The mayor spoke with historian and podcaster Latoya Coleman. He admitted to overlooking the contributions of black Americans in the city in his previous comments where he said New York was a city built by immigrants. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda, to Indiana parents has taken a stance in support of immigrants and against President Donald Trump's federal immigration crackdown. Civil Rights TV, the world's first 24-hour television network dedicated exclusively to civil rights history, education, and future equity officially launched on the Connect to your city streaming platform powered by Connect to OTT. The network made its debut in Telma, Alabama. Civil Rights TV delivers around-the-clock programming focused on historic

moments, cultural education, community leadership, and conversation shaping the future of equity and justice. Viewers can watch Civil Rights TV by downloading the Connect to Your City app on Roku by streaming it directly on the connect to your city OTT platform. Well, the 57th annual NAACP Image Awards celebrated Black Excellence across film, television, music, literature, and podcasting. And one film led the night. Ryan Cougler's centers dominated the two, 2026 awards, earning 18 nominations, winning 13 honors during the four-night event. During the ceremony, Cougler and actor Delroy Lindo took the stage to present an award. The pair received an outstanding ovation in the aftermath of what happened at the Bafda Awards last weekend.

Cooleger and Lindo made a powerful statement that reminded us what it means to stand in the room where we don't have to explain our humanity. Thank you, thank you. Before we start, I just like that. like to officially say that we appreciate, I appreciate, we appreciate all the support and the love that we have been shown in the aftermath of what happened last weekend. It means a lot to us. It is a... Next Monday, our 2026 IHeart Podcast Awards are happening live at South by Southwest. This is the biggest night in podcasting.

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Listen to math and magic, stories from the frontiers of marketing starting March 19th on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Honor to be here amongst our people this evening, amongst so many people who have shown us such incredible support, and it's a classic case of something that could have been very negative, becoming very positive. Thank you so much for the support. Well, another actor with a strong message during the event was Viola Davis. She became emotional as she accepted the chairman honored during the show. I like this quote that the definition of hell is on your last day on earth, the person you became meets the person that you could have become.

I say that about our nation. I say that about myself. that there is no becoming until you face the depth and the darkness of your own soul. There is no becoming without healing and without a radical acceptance of one's truth. I know that about myself growing up in poverty. Little chocolate girl with thick lips and wide nose in Rhode Island in 1965. I didn't see hope. I didn't see dreams.

I just wanted to be somebody. And Michael B. Jordan also had a good night. He took home a top acting award, along with entertainer of the year, recognized for his work on screen and his commitment to elevating black storytelling behind the scenes. Roland? All right, Brittany, thanks a bunch. You know, folks, one of the things I did, I dropped a video as I was leaving D.C. today on Instagram. and I talked about this idea of when we do things for the culture.

You hear that phrase all the time, doing it for the culture, doing it for the culture. And I think one of the issues that we have to contend with is who's profiting from the culture. And this is an important distinction because we talk about music, we talk about movies, we talk about entertainment. This is a major thing. And I think what we are witnessing is going to be a serious need for black folk to truly go inward and recognize that we're going to have to really focus on owning and supporting one another. Today, there was an earnings call with Paramount talking about this merger with Warner Brothers. We're going to have some $79 billion in debt. They're going to be combining HBO Max and Paramount Plus.

And I'm telling you right now, this can be massive job losses. If they are able to go through and they'll be owning. CNN, expect job losses. And what I am saying to African Americans, people in music, I'm tired to see these videos of black folks who have record deals where they're losing

money and say, oh my God, I'm not earning anything from it. We have to stop being the show and we must be the business. And we have to really, that has to be our focus in our state of mind. So when I pound a way in on that, Eugene, I want

to start with you, because if we're not having an owning conversation, that means somebody else doesn't look like us will be owning our music, owning our movies, owning our news, owning all of that. And so I'm tired of this phrase, let's do it for the culture.

You know, how about we own the culture? I agree. And look, American culture, which in reality is black culture is America's greatest export. We have to own the culture. We have to own the means of production, especially,

in the era where you have unfettered access to platforming, right? You have unfettered access. Artists right now can go to DistroKids, Tdibbaby, and upload a whole complete album. A movie maker can go and fully distribute their movie on numerous amounts of platforms that's not even create their own platform.

I just, you know, a couple minutes ago retweet it, well, tweet it out that, you know, there's something to be happening in the network. And I said, that needs to happen on a black home network where there's here, where there's one of the other networks, but that moment that's going to take, needs to happen somewhere black home

because it's, it's black center that was driven by a black focused audience, and that's money to be made on it, that should be made by black owned network. And so I agree with you 100%. You know, doing it for the culture feels good, but doing it for the pockets and doing it for the business

that actually benefits the culture will actually sustain, you know, the community going forward. You know, you know, Some film, again, some folks may disagree. They may say, well, it's not always about the money. But here's the whole deal. When I look at these documentaries that are being done about music artists very often, not black producers.

Not folks who are owning that. So I'm like, wait a minute. So we got white managers and white executives who are earning the money. I made a point that I said, if people want to understand how this works, just simply go to deadline.com, go to t-h-r.com, variety.com, the rap.com. When you look at who gets hired, who the executive is being hired, Verfrey looks like us. The people who are making, David Zazelaw, the CEO wanted to discover.

He's going to walk away with $700 million in this merger. You know what? It's going to be a lot of other people making tons of money, don't look like us. And this is what I'm saying. There are people who don't look like us who are sending their kid and their grandkids to college, on the money that black folks generated for him.

I love Prince. and people wanted to sample this music and he said, if you don't own your masters, you can't suffer my music. He said, because I'm not sending somebody else's kids to college. Business has become one of the most exciting ventures in my practice. I intentionally created BYOB,

which is build your own business, which is to empower minorities in knowing every aspect of the building blocks, the foundation, the structure, because oftentimes that's where the rubber meets the role with a lot of minorities, especially African Americans, is not properly structuring and protecting your business. Right now, I am seeing an influx in creators their brands being stolen through intellectual property, but for if you would have taking that money and invested in protecting your brand, you would not have to now come back

and undo it because your common law rights. You wouldn't have had that issue if you would have done it up front. The biggest problem I see with us is not investing up front into your business in order for you to go out and put everything in order. We are needed. We know we got the sauce. But how are we going to continue to put out the recipes if our structure is not properly sound? So the thing that I see as a, not only a lawyer, but as an entrepreneur and a two-time inventor, is that fear. Why are you afraid? They want you to be afraid. And they want you not to collaborate with each other so that you all can get to the top, even if you're in different industries.

So the time is now. When we're seeing, we saw this, I saw this coming four years ago during a pandemic. I said there's going to be a reckoning where African Americans who have the ability to be innovative and be useful to create their own business. But if you stay in a position long enough, you're going to miss your blessing

and you're going to show your level of disobedience to where then you're going to have to come back and start completely over, and it's going to be harder. So when it's time says to start, it's to start and to do it right. Omicongo. We just have to ask the question. I mean, when are we finally going to learn a lesson? We're sitting on a platform right now,

rolling and looking at what you build, almost 2 million followers, right? When you look at what Kugler and Michael B. Jordan, they've been doing this together forever, and look what they've been able to reach. We just saw the story earlier over the weekend about the family of Isaac Hayes, you know, suing the Trump administration,

saying, hey, stop using our music. And, you know, Isaac Hayes III, always coming on here talking about fan base and the like. When it comes down to it, we, as Les Brown said, you either expand or you are expendable. We know if all these mergers like you talked about, there's going to be layouts coming.

We know that when the Ellisons take over these other Hollywood studios and the like, It's going to be less opportunities for us. But as Eugene was saying, we can make movies on our iPhone. Like, we have the music. I load up my albums through CD-Babody all of the time. And we have been through this at various moments in history. And this is nothing new.

It's just new technology, new language, but it's the same thing. Expand or become expendable. And if we don't understand it right now to start building and building together, just look at everything you're doing as it relates to honoring the Reverend Jesse Jackson. So it's also important to know that nobody's going to honor our people like us. And if we wait for these guys to lay us off, if we wait for these guys to shut down our TV shows or shut down our albums or whatever,

knowing that we have the ability all along to create and build on our own, then we deserve what we have coming. We have to learn the lessons from history. We have to listen to Roland who's always talking about stop focusing on the show and focus on the business. I will say it's now or never, but we've been here before,

and we will be here again if we don't learn this lesson right now. 100%. Let me thank our panel. Omicongo, Thelma, as well as Eugene, for being on today's show. All right now, Reverend Al Sharpton, is giving the prayer here at the Susan Taylor National Care's mentoring gala. So here's what we're going to do. I need to reposition for some reason their live stream has not started.

I have no idea what's going on. So we're going to call an audible. So what we're going to do is right now we're going to go to a commercial break. We come back. We're going to play the speech of the new president. another African-American who's head of the United States Steelworkers. So we're going to play her speech when you come back. So let's go to a commercial break.

We'll be right back, rolling out on the folks on the Black Star Network. With medicine and science under attack, I want to keep you and your family informed and healthy. I'm Dr. Ebony Hilton, and I knew at the age of eight that I wanted to be a doctor. So I studied hard and became the first African-American female anesthesiologist hired at the Medical University of South Carolina. since this opening in 1824. And I always say I was made into a doctor but I was born to be a mom.

And as a new mom, wife, sister, daughter, and friend, I understand how frightening and medical prices can be. I care for individuals on some of the worst days of their lives and it's my mission to provide you with a safe space and gain clarity on issues affecting your mind, body, and soul. I recognize that there are health disparities, particularly as it contains your race. And I want to help bridge the gap between you and your health care providers.

Join me every Thursday for Second Opinion on the Black Star Network, where each week I'll invite experts from various medical fields to share the latest health events. We'll discuss topics such as a vaccine debate, mental and central health, medical bias, infertility, menopause, andropause, nutrition and aging. Together with my medical colleagues, we aim to provide you with a second opinion. Don't miss it. Thursdays only on the Black Star Network. Pull up a chair, take your seat at the Black tape.

With me, Dr. Greg Carr, here on the Black Star Network. Every week, we'll take a deeper dive into the world we're living in. Join the conversation only on the Black Star Network. They said the quiet part out loud. Black votes are a threat, so they erased them. After the Supreme Court gutted the... the Voting Rights Act in 2013, Republican legislatures moved fast. New voter ID laws, polling place shutdowns, purges of black voters from the rolls. Trump's Justice Department didn't

stop it, they joined in. In 2018, his DOJ backed Ohio's voter purge system, a scheme that disproportionately erased black voters, their goal, erase black votes and political power. Yeah, that happened. These are the kinds of stories that we cut. every day on Roland Martin unfiltered. Subscribe on YouTube and download the Black Star Network app. Support fact-based independent journalism that centers African Americans and the issues that matter to our community. If in this country right now, you have people get up in the morning,

and the only thing they can think about is how many people they can hurt, and they've got the power, that's the time for mourning. For better or worse, what makes America special, it's that legal system that's supposed to, protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority. We are at a point of a moral emergency. We must raise a voice of outrage. We must raise a voice of compassion and we must raise a voice of unity. We are not in a crisis of party versus party. We are in a crisis of civilization, a human rights crisis and a crisis of democracy itself and

Guess what? You've been chosen to make sure that those that would destroy, those that would hate, don't have the final say, and they don't ultimately win. I'm Mark Morial, President, CEO of the National Urban League, and I'm watching a Black Star Network. Folks, another major union has a black president, the international president versus the United Steelworkers this weekend install Roxanne Brown as their new president. the 10th international president taking the helm of North America's largest industrial union founded in 1942. She was elected last fall to replace David McCall, who did not seek re-election and was serving as president since September 2003. She is the first woman and the first person of color to lead the skilled workers union. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica, raised in White Plains, New York. He has served as the union's international vice president since 2019 advocating

for working families on issues including health care, manufacturing, retirement, security, and workplace safety. This is some of what she said after taking the oath of office. I need a moment to take it all in and manage the tears coming out of my eyes. All right, steelworkers, are you all ready? Are you all ready? Cecil Roberts and our own President Emeritus, David McCall, for their heart well-felt words this morning. You all inspired us and you gave us some much, some much needed history.

Thank you for being a part of this historic installation. And thank all of you. This room is literally bursting at the themes today with USW members and staff and family, friends, presidents from other unions, members of Congress. I think I saw my own member of Congress, Chris Deluzio here, and Summerlee, a member of Congress, and other elected leaders

and former government officials. We can't tell you how much it means for us that you would join us on a Sunday to celebrate the installation of our executive board. Thank you all so very much. I can't name all the names, but I see you all and I just really appreciate it. You know, I have been really blessed

to be a part of not just this union, but this movement that we all love so much, the labor movement. And as you can see, we're a family. And it's the most unexpected family. When I first came to this unit at 19 years old, never could I ever have imagined that I would be standing here 27 years later, having been installed as a 10th international

International President of this Union. It's been quite the journey, but it's been an incredible one because I haven't been alone. A lot of the folks that have been on that journey with me are on this stage, the incredible team that makes up the leadership of this union, and the incredible people who are in this office,

so audience, so many of you. To my family, I can't even I kept telling everybody that the Jamaicans were going to descend on Pittsburgh this weekend from New York, Philly, D.C., and Canada. So if there's a smell of jerk chicken or curry chicken in the air, it's just us. Don't worry about it. So Jamaican Massif, this is your time. I've been telling them to be demure.

Now you can be loud. Jamaican Massive, give it up one time. I am a product of a proud lineage. I emigrated to the United States at two years old from Kingston, Jamaica, myself and the loud crew of folks you just heard, my mom, my grandma, brother, sister, aunts, uncle, cousins, and nieces represent the fruits of the tree that was my great Grandma Edna. She came to the U.S. first. She was our tether here to this country. She came in the 1970s by herself with a dream, the same dream that every immigrant that comes to this country has. Opportunity, hope, success, not just for herself, but for her children and grandchildren, her future. her future.

We all, my family and I, we stand on her shoulders. She was a tough, smart, strong woman, and she embedded in us the values of hard work, faith, and family. And she expected us to shoot for the stars. I look at my family today, all of us, and I know that we are quite literally her wildest dreams. And I know that she's here looking down on us today. So thank you, family, for coming from far and wide to be with us today. I love you all so deeply, and I appreciate your support.

My husband often calls the women in my family the generals or the Amazons. I'm not sure why, but whatever. And three of them are actually here today. My grandma, my cousin Sandra, and one of the chief generals is my mom, Rosie Brown. Ma, there are not enough words in the human dictionary to describe what you mean to me. Your road as a single mom was not easy. working two jobs, 80 hours a week as a critical care nurse. But watching you taught me everything I needed to know about hard work,

about never giving up, and about grit. If you looked in the dictionary and you looked up the word grit, you would see a picture of my mom. You would. Thank you for all the sacrifices you made for me, my little knuckle-headed brother, Enrique, and for always pushing me to be my best me, even during the teenage years when I really didn't want to be pushed.

I wasn't about being pushed as a teenager. Thank you for pushing me. I love you. Thank you for being my prayer warrior and the wind at my back. I love you. Dwight Brown, you are my rock. you've had a front row seat to this journey. A little after we began dating when I was 19 and he was 20,

he started calling me meal ticket. But he like sings it, meal ticket. And he's been calling me that ever since. And it's a silly phrase with strong meaning. And what he was telling me from the beginning is that he's, saw something in me that I had yet to see. And he spent the last 28 years cheering me on in my best moments, lifting me up in my hardest moments, and reminding me who I am in those doubtful moments.

None of this would be possible without you, babe. I love you so much. Eden Rose, my moon and my stars, still workers know how much I love me some Eden Rose. When I first told her about becoming president, she said, Great! Now I'm going to be even more popular! Eden, you are the most courageous person I know. Mommy loves you more than you can possibly imagine. I do this work for our members, but I also do it for you, baby girl.

I want you to always know your power. Don't cry. You're going to make mommy cry. To always show up as your authentic self. And to know that there is no ceiling, baby girl, because Mommy just shattered a huge hole in that ceiling for you, your cousins, and your god sisters. Labor family from other unions and my fellow executive council members on the AFLCIO. I see some of you who traveled from far. and why to be here. Thank you for the support. So many of you are active and passive mentors and you have been so tremendously generous with your time and your tutelage over the years. You know, the solidarity that we have in this movement is so powerful, and President

Schuller talked about it earlier. We are nothing without our solidarity. So thank you so much to all of you. Where am I winning that today on the first day of Women's History Month that we make some history. To all the sisters who added your own cracks and holes to that glass ceiling at your locals

or as staff as leaders here in this union, thank you. Give yourselves a round of applause. The last time, and Dave and I think a lot of folks on the executive board will remember this, the last time that we held an

installation at this hotel, Our former president, Leo Gerard, was being installed. And during his remarks, he said he looked forward to the day when a woman would leave this union at this hotel. And that was the last time that we had an installation here. That was something that Leo always talked about. And he didn't just talk about it. He meant those words and he took actions to support them. During his presidency, more women stepped into leadership positions at the staff level,

and under his leadership, the union appointed its first woman, Carol Landry, to our executive board as vice president at large. The position I was proud to carry on after her retirement and that Vice President Amber Miller now carries today. And Carol, I was going to ask where she is. There she is, Carol Landry. We love you, sister. Girl, thank you and other phenomenal women of steel like Kathy Drummond, Holly Hart, Ginger Hartman, Marianne Weston, Leanne Foster, Anne Fleener, Lauren Horn, Maxine Carter, and countless other women. There have been so many that I honestly can't name them all.

But thank you all for blazing the path, for generating the path for generating. of women of steel to follow and for showing us that leadership at all levels of this union is possible. Right sisters? Are the steel workers in the house? Are the steel work to the steel worker membership? There is no executive board. There is no union without you, period, full stop. You are the backbone and you. and lifeblood of this institution. To have the opportunity to serve you in this way is one of the greatest honors of my life.

Standing in the trenches, shoulder to shoulder, back to back with all of you is one of my favorite places to be, because we scrappy. We spent a lot of time winning some big victories and fighting some major fights together over the last couple of decades. All of those efforts have been around what unites us. We're all connected to this union because we share the same set of values, the same goals.

We want to build power for workers. We want a voice on the job. We want to make a good living. We want to come home safely to our families at the end of a shift. We don't want to break the bank going to the ER or the doctor. We want a good and stable future for our kids and our grandkids. And after our years of toil, we want to retire in dignity. These are the things we fight for.

There's a lot of noise right now in the ether. A lot of distraction. distracting us from the things that unite us, the ties that bind us as a labor organization, do not get distracted by the noise. Do not get distracted by the noise. Focus on the values, the things we fight for at the bargaining table

in the halls of Congress, in Ottawa and in state houses and provincial governments across our two countries. I wouldn't be honest, right, if I didn't acknowledge that there are a lot of these values are under attack with more challenges likely ahead. We got a lot of work to do. There is always an unknown element to the future. But here's what I know. That together, united, we, the state, the state,

Deal workers can take on any fight, any challenge, and any foe. Am I right? This is what we do. Together we can build the future we're all fighting for, one that reflects our values, so it's more important than ever that we move forward together in unity as a union to build that future. So what does that look like? Growing our ranks.

Organizing is power. We're at a time when 70% of Americans support unions. Let's go get those workers and bring them into our ranks, right? Bargaining strong contracts. Collective bargaining is our bread and butter. It's how we make gains on things like wages, benefits, and healthcare. We all know this is a major bargaining year across a lot of our sectors, and a lot of our major bargainers are sitting right here behind me and beside me.

We're going to work in solidarity to get our just-do at those tables. Are we not? Yes? Education. One of the most powerful forces is an educated union member. We're going to continue building on our educational and membership engagement programs to continue to build power for our union and legislative action. action. Taking our voices and stories to legislative bodies in both our countries is one of the

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Wanted it. We got them. Okay, now please turn your attention to the screen and together let's show our love for the women. Their names roll off the tongue like a river whose ancient current has carried us through rapids over falls through inundation and drought. Warrior women who walked the high ridges and riverbanks hands knowing every healing route. These are the women who made us born of necessity. mothers of invention. They wrote themselves into history.

Witnesses to the worst. By lamplight, she was a mirror in verse. Freedom is not a destination. It is a direction, a compass in a world designed to confuse you. They crashed the gates of academia and commandeered the printing press, named white crimes when it was dangerous to do so, turned hot combs and pomades into the printing press,

Pomades into entrepreneurship turned outlaw learning from risk to a refuge and refuge into an army on the march. She wielded power at uncommon heights. She walked into a schoolhouse and into history holding our children and daring the state to show its face. They rallied the grassroots along the Taliachi where a boy was beaten and driven at His mother braving an open casket showed us the face of the nation's hate. They can't be reduced to a single bus seat. Sitting unmoved was a gangster maneuver, a flashpoint igniting movement. They kept a vigil when grief might have followed the future,

turned mourning to movement cultivation, scorched earth, to ripening fruit in a nation built on buying and selling she was unbought and unbossed. For her, the skies were no longer the limit. She took the measure of human aspirations, and with math and science, put possibility into orbit. They mined language to unearth the truth and gave us back our voices, elevating unlettered speech to lyric poetry. A melody, a confrontation with conscience. Patience is not always a virtue.

Her blistering dissents bring balance back to the biased scales of justice. Each bend in the river has brought forth a first with the certainty that others would follow. These are a few among the many who made us the proof and promise of the of a river that flows into a vast constellation of names, a river that is calling to us.

The women who stand in the gap today, who hold the line when systems fail or function as intended, women who mentor, lead, teach, protect, who raise the next generation into possibility. Women whose modest drop in the bucket adds to a river, adds to a river, an ocean, a night sky, fall of names. So listen, fill the current at your back. Then join in the flow.

Because the women who made us are making us still. And for them, we are filled with gratitude. To the history, we must all hold dear. That, of course, that masterpiece was narrated by the incomparable Angela Bassett. And written by Susan's beloved, the masterful Keffra Byrne, Preston Miller. All have to stand up and let us say thank you. Let us say thank you, Kefra. Come on.

for women who made us. And to keep the love for our brothers going for a moment, put your hands together for National Care's Chief Programs and Partnership Officer, also known as the organization's Deacon of Defense, Stephen Powell. Let me get myself together here. That's a little too much.

How are you beautiful people doing? Okay, I'm going to try that one more time. How are you beautiful people doing? Awesome. So I want to thank my heavily father for two decades, just about two decades of serving this organization. In my role, I get to oversee our group mentoring programs, the Rising, the HBCU Rising, and University for Parents, uniquely designed to support adults and teenagers. That work is undergirded by a healing framework called A New Way Forward. Some of those 60-member Brain Trust members who help to create this protocol are here in this room to know.

So thank you for being here. What makes our work, yes, give them a round of applause. What makes our work so unique is that we take it to the young people in the community. We don't take them out of the community. And we could not do this work without our strong strategic partners, which are comprised of legacy organizations, corporate social responsibility groups, and other national organizations. And I just want to shout them out right now.

The American Nurses Enterprise. Yes, the Association of Black Psychologists. Coca-Cola, FCFuccia Careers Academy, Delta Sigma Theta Serrari Incorporated, Jack and Jill of America, the Lynx Incorporated, the National Black Child Development Institute, the National Medical Association,

5 Beta Sigma fraternity, FedEx, and Sephora. Now I need to do a little pulse check to see who's in the room where my other divine nine folks are. I dressed this way on purpose. Alpha Phi Alpha were you? Okay. Where are my brothers from Kappa Alpha Psi? Okay. Omega Sia Fai.

Y'all in the building. Okay. Okay. Iota Phi Theta. All right. Maybe in a bathroom. Maybe it in a bathroom. That's all right.

sororities alpha Kappa Alpha sorority you in the building okay Zeta Phi Beta sorority what somebody's in here Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Stacy where you at okay Sigma Gamma Row okay one more pulse check and all I got to do is this ain't you so those organizations support our 58 affiliates around the country, and I want to acknowledge the brother who is leading that charge. He is our VP of affiliate services, and what I love about this brother is that he truly understands we can't be afraid of the people that we're charged to serve. Greg Corbyn, please stand. Thank you. And the heart and soul of our work is comprised of a dedicated core of soldiers of love from Brooklyn to the Bay. Our affiliate leaders,

Can you please stand where you are? And let's give them a large round of applause, y'all. These are our volunteers who are recruiting, training, and deploying mentors around the country. Thank you. And I'm so blessed to do this work with my sister and partner in time, Dr. Uri Berry, who I'm going to bring up.

She is our VP of programs. Thank you, Stephen. And thank you to our visionary founder, Susan L. Taylor. to be a part, you can clap for that. To be part of a team dedicated to young people whom so many would write off is work that is so deep. I have spent years engaging and supporting young people

across the world who are forced to come of age in extreme poverty, exposure to violence, who are invisible or seen only as problems to be solved. Yet through it all, I've witnessed their resilience, their brilliance, and their capacity to thrive when they are finally met with care, protection, and dignity every child deserves. And this is why our work, the work of CARES mentoring, is important. With your support, your continued support, cares is able to reach multitudes of young people

and families with interactive and transformative curriculum that is patient, understanding, and hopeful. We empower students, families, and communities with tools anchored in holistic wellness, workforce development, wealth building, and perhaps most critically how to look in the mirror and see themselves in the fullness of their humanity. They leave our programs, but the love and mentorship they receive at cares is meant to last a lifetime. And I could not be more grateful to be a part of such a magnificent offering. You got a snap to that one. Now, if you don't know, the origins of our work started as Essence Cares. And there is a sister who has been with Susan along the way since her days at Essence. She is an author. She's a journalist. She's a poet.

She loves community. She loves to listen to our young people. I consider her my sister from a spiritual mister because I'm her brother from our mentoring mother. Her name is the incomparable Asha Bandalay. The camera here so I could take a picture of how beautiful you all look. Twenty years, Susan, I'm an idea, an idea of all of this. Thank you for being here.

You were truly our blessed ones. Thank you for showing up year after year for our children, for the legacy. And there's just, you know, I'm not going to begin a discussion tonight without talking about the greatest mentor I've ever had and could ever hope to have. Susan Taylor, I am so lucky to have sat on her feet for all of these years. And I'm proud to say, I'm Taylor May, baby. Taylor May. So I was like almost 30 years ago, I'm just taking back to the real, so you know, I don't have the fancy voice like that.

I'm just a family girl, but you know, almost 30 years ago, I was pregnant alone, baby daddy in jail, whole story. I was the whole story. And Susan took me in, but most people wouldn't have even looked at me. She took me in. She taught me how to become a great mentor. I promise you, I came out of hip-hop. I didn't even know what fact-checking was. I swear that is the truth.

And she taught me most of all to tell great stories for the multitudes, not for the few of us, but for the many. That was the charge, in essence, because we had to speak to 15-year-olds and 65-year-olds in the same story. You had to write a story that was compelling about childbearing to a woman who might be in menopause. That was the beauty of the training. Make it a big tent. Bring everybody in the room. That's what Susan Taylor does. That's what Susan Taylor does.

And I'm looking at the big tent. But tonight, I want to tell you a story about Marciae Bradley. She was part of our rising program, which Stephen was just referring to. She joined it four years after Susan and I used to fly to Chicago every Friday morning. I mean, so much so like I knew the TSA people by name. But by then, Stephen had joined, and so I didn't get to meet Marciae. But for years, I had been hearing about her. And everybody was saying just how incredible she was.

And so I want to say as we celebrate the women who made us, I want to say this as a mother. I want to say this as somebody who's been a youth organizer all of my life. I want to say that there are incredible women who made us, and we must remember them. But there's some pretty fly girls who make us too. So give it up for the girls, man. Free the girls. Girls like my daughter, Lisa Rashid.

Girls like them pretty ones out of Brooklyn and Queens tonight singing the national anthem. And girls like Marche. Over the years, one of our first facilitators, Dr. Simone Wilson would tell me about Marcee, keep me updated on her, also Principal Outlaw. Don't you love that name, Principal Outlaw, for a principal on time. This is she's fabulous. They would tell me about Marce and her brilliance and perseverance and Marcee how she became, despite all these challenges, a principal scholar.

And then, because of a partnership, as Stephen was talking about partnerships, that the brother who led Windy City cares at the time, come on LeCendrick, we see you, we see you. He broke into partnership with Northrop Grumman and that students from the school that they came from on the south side of Chicago could actually go and intern there. And Marcia was like, engineering. All right? Why not? Because the rising teaches us to be open.

She just to try new things. Did that say why, but why not? Come on. And so she got there and it was hard. All the other high school students, you know, had come from much more privileged backgrounds educationally, economically. And just, you know, we live in the school. such a bullying culture and if you can believe this, some adult who works there made fun of her

for not having a computer. But that's not the story. You know what the story is? Dr. Simone Wilson was like, oh yeah? And went out and bought her one out of her own money. She's like, you got one now, baby girl, you got one now. And I'll tell you what, she took that. And at the final robotics competition, guess who outperformed everybody? Everybody else's a little robot fell and came apart. And I miss Marchet, it did this little thing, it did his little thing. But you know, like I do, in under-resourced communities, hard moments are often very frequent. And I was talking to Marce, I'm kind of shaking as I say this, and she told me that the day that she went for her interview to do a presentation to get the internship at Northwick Grumman, she was already feeling very shaky.

She had a very difficult relationship with her family. And it was even harder because she had just found out that with her first boyfriend, and she was just 16, like my mother was once, she was pregnant. And she was even more isolated, even more ashamed. But she went anyway. And the school provided an escort to take her. And she went there and she rocked it out. this is the perseverance

and yes she got that internship yes Ms. Marchet she got that internship and then on the way home the woman who escorted her had to stop in the store for a minute Marcei didn't feel well and that was how she learned she was

miscarrying and what she did by herself on an IKEA bathroom floor but her story does not stop this is what the rising teaches us to persevere To fall seven times, get up eight. To keep going when you've got to keep going.

To never sit down, never fall back. Never. Because we are that strong, because we come from that stuff. We're the people who are never supposed to survive. So what? Yes, Ms. Marchet kept going. And yes, she got a scholarship to the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. And no, she never told me she was food insecure.

She didn't have to. Because if you ain't got no home, you ain't got no fridge. 25% of our children are hungry every day here in America with more billionaires than any other nation on this earth. And no, she didn't have to tell me she was depressed. Did she, Monique Coussin? The rate of depressions for our girls specifically have spiraled for black girls. I need to say this. She's going to take your breath away.

Since 2001, the rate of death by suicide has risen one hundred hundred. 182%. It's hard to take that in, but it's worse to ignore it. It's worse to ignore it. I know some of the parents on the other side of that terrible story. But there's also, it's rising, which is incredible. A number of children have talked about feeling very vulnerable because of depression. But I want to share something with you.

I know Susan doesn't always like me to say this because you don't know if things are going to change, but we ain't never lost one baby on our watch, all right? Let me just add not one with everything that's going out because we have an intervention that works. We have facilitators who are trained and loving. We're doing the only programming that's led by psychologists and trained mentors. It's the most incredible work and really it's the work we can all do because it's just caring. It's reading, it's paying attention, it's listening. And so we took your support.

I want to just talk to some of the people like Grace in the room, like our friends, at Coca-Cola like AARP, like Dr. Bell and everybody at Casey, we were able to take kids who could never get out to a campus, you know, where Northwick-Brumman was, and we could get them cars to get there safely. That's what you allow us to do, to give people an opportunity. And so from the development of our curriculum and to the quality of the training, so you get leaders, like Dr. Simone, who's going to take money out of her own pocket and buy a computer, and on the next day, take money out and feed all the kids. And if you can look at and see the power of our soldiers of love,

give them one more round. This life-giving stuff is not the outlier. It is the norm every day. This is the house that Susan Taylor built, a house of love that cannot and will not be broken. And Marcia graduated top of her class in 2020, in the middle of a pandemic. And she got that scholarship to University of Arkansas

at Pine Bluff. And she graduated. This is a girl who had no money, no house, no way to get to college. Simone said, I got a car, though, baby girl, and I know how to drive, put pedal to the metal. 17 hours there. She drove her, set up that dorm, set up that dorm, and then drove her back. And when Rache graduated and came back, Principal Outlaw, as principals are prone to do, Although she's fake retired.

She was retired, but the Chicago Public Schools keep calling her back. She's like, I'm like, well, you're not supposed to be working. Whatever, it keeps happening. Principal Outlaw still calls her student. Somebody would graduate four years before. To be like, girl, you want your game? You're on your job?

She has annoyed Marche, which I'm not supposed to say so much, but she's kept her on the... Next Monday, our 2026 IHeart Podcast Awards are happening live at South by Southwest. Since the biggest night in podcasting. We'll honor the very best in podcasting from the past. year and celebrate the most innovative talent and creators in the industry. And the winner is...

Creativity, knowledge, and passion will all be on full display. Thank you so much. IHeartRadio. Thank you to all the other nominees. You guys are awesome. Watch live next Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific free at Veeps.com or the Veeps app. I'm Clayton Eckerd, and in 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. Unfortunately, it didn't go according to plan. He became the first bachelor to ever have his final rose rejected. The internet turned on him.

If I could press a button and rewind it all I would. But what happened to Clayton after the show made even bigger headlines. It began as a one-night stand and ended in a courtroom with Clayton at the center of a very strange paternity scandal. The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. Please search warrant.

This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trapped. This season, an epic battle of He Said She Said, and the search for accountability in a sea of lies. Listen to Love Trapped on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Heart and TikTok have come together to create something new. I love it. Where the world of TikTok meets your playlist.

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Make it a preset and stay connected all day. I'm Anna Navarro and on my new podcast, Bleep with Anna Navarro. I'm talking to the people closest to the biggest issues happening in your community and around the world. Because I know deep down inside right now, we are all cursing and asking what the bleep is going on. I'm talking to people like Julie K. Brown, who broke the explosive story on Jeffrey Epstein in 2018. These victims have been let down time and time again for decades and decades by local law enforcement, by federal law enforcement, by administration after administration.

The Justice Department through, I think we counted four presidential administrations, failed these victims. Listen to Bleep with Anna Navarro as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Bob Pittman, chairman and CEO of IHeart Media, and I'm kicking off a brand new season of my podcast, Math and Magic, stories from the Frontiers of Marketing. Math and Magic takes you behind the scenes of the biggest businesses and industries while sharing insights from the smartest minds in marketing. I'm talking to leaders from the entertainment industry to finance and everywhere in between. This seasonal math and magic, I'm talking to CEO of Liquid Death Mike Sassario, financier and public health advocate, Mike Milken. Take-2 interactive CEO, Strauss-Zalnik. If you're unable to take meaningful creative risk and therefore run the risk of making horrible creative mistakes, then you can't play in this business.

Sesame Street CEO Sherry Weston and her own chief business officer, Lisa Coffey. Making consumers see the value of the human voice and to have that guaranteed human promise behind it really makes it rise to the top. Listen to math and magic, stories from the frontiers of marketing starting March 19th on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. On this January, before we started this, that's how you do it. opportunity. Thank you to everyone above all and I want to thank Ms. Simone and Principal outlaw the most. They are the woman who made me and I wish they could come

out here and help me feel just a little less nervous. Get those pictures. Get those pictures of these fine women. Get those pictures. Dr. Simone Wilson. Okay, yeah, let me get in too. From then because, you know, our stage manager is going to get mad because I'm going to go overtime and stuff like that. So I'm not going to be the cause of Reggie. I'm not going to be the cause of the cost of overtime. Swear to God. But if you got to hear at least one thing, tell me one thing, Ms. Simone, about the rising, that you want people to know, about national cares, that you want people to walk away with nothing else. What would be that one thing? You never show up to a crisis and crisis. And you always, always allow the ancestors to push you forward to give back

to our children. Thank you, baby. Yes, Asha. Okay, well, I'd be quoting Ramona, so you've got to quote it. So CARES really provides access and opportunity. Two programs that are anchored in culture, like Marcei, has talked about, that are healing centered like you've heard in her story. This chicosystem that you see right here is a product of the rising.

The rising has really poured into our babies and really ignited a passion in them like you see in Marche that provided her the comfort of confidence, the peace that comes from finding your sense of purpose. We are here to let you know that when you join the National Care's movement, love wins. And so please join. Yes. Yes, don't go anywhere. Don't go anywhere. It's not in the program, and we have a very mean show caller. I will get in trouble.

Please do not get me in trouble. The program, I would like to say that the CARES program did a lot for me. I feel like it changed my way of thinking and did a lot for my life. And if I was not in the CARES program, I would not be where I'm at today. And I would not strive or go so hard for myself. As one more extraordinary young woman to join us. If you haven't met her, you'll be blown away by her tonight. She's been getting me in trouble since she was like four.

You know, she and my daughter used to play in Ms. Taylor's office, and then I got blamed. It wasn't my fault. They didn't listen to me. But I'm speaking about none other than the beautiful, the brilliant, the activist, the strong, Amina S. King. Susan's granddaughter. Tiaasha, those beautiful words.

But before we... Okay, sorry. The teleprompter is not correct. Okay, thank you, Antiasha, and what an honor it is to be here to support my sweetie's vision and legacy. I love you, sweetie, and happy birthday. And I'm here this evening to tell you Dr. Wilson and principal outlaw that on behalf of the National Careers Mentoring Movement, It is my great honor to present each of you with the first ever Susan L. Taylor Legacy Award. Surprise.

This time we've named an award for our CEO and founder, the Susan L. Taylor Legacy Award. Be Dr. Simone Wilson. Be principal Ramona Outlaw. Be Marcia Bradley. Be Susan Taylor. Be great. Don't be good. Be great.

We from Brooklyn. You know, it ain't hard. Be great. Be great. Thank you everybody. Marciae. Give my... This is a woman built by cares. Congratulations.

And for the rest of the world's existence, you will be the first honored under Susan L. Taylor's name. Congratulations. Thank you. Like every young person under a certain day, she said, can I get a selfie? Really? Marce's big ask was, can I get a selfie?

Her family will be super happy if she gets a selfie. So what we're going to do is do a family selfie. Stand on up. Who can do it? All comes down to one selfie. What an example we have seen set today, Principal Outlaw, Dr. Simone. It truly takes all of us. And that's what this occasion is about tonight.

With the training and support that care is made possible, this is what happens. Lives are nourished and lives are transformed. Communities are built. What we just heard and witnessed is exactly why the work must be sustained and grown. And to help us do that, please welcome our friend, Master Fundraiser. Unlock your phones.

And tonight, Master Refereer, I'll let him explain what that means. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Reggie Canal. Come on out, Reggie. This is the time you all been waiting for. Some of you have been dodging me. I do this for Susan, not for me. People stop talking about where they go.

So first of all, I want to say thank you to Tamron Hall because Susan was on Tamron Hall last week. And a few of us got a chance to piggyback on her. Tamron Hall has someone that hypes her up before she comes out. So we want that person because Tamara comes out very enjoying. But tonight, we're here for a reason. We're here because of the investment of the children to ensure the future they deserve is not left a chance. But I have too high person with me today.

I have Dr. Michael Erica Dyson, where are you, and Roland Martin. We're here for a reason. We're here to raise $300,000 in 10 minutes. But before they start the clock, it's going to be simple, quick, and we're going to get this done. very fast. Two years ago, hey, Grace, good to see you. Keep your checkbook, Grace. Grace was very generous for this last time. So we're going to raise 300. Lola West, I'm not even looking your way. Don't even worry about it. 10 minutes, y'all. Okay, are we ready?

Yeah, we're ready. Okay, so this is how we're going to do it. We're going to do it very fast. We're going to call levels. We're going to have team rolling on the left. So Team Rolling, raise your hand. Who's rolling with Roland Morris? Team rolling on the left. It's microphone is too hollow. Y'all need to fix the mic. I'm black. I need some base. All right. I got this side of the room. Okay. And Dr. And everyone, all y'all on this side?

We are streaming on my network. Y'all don't give. We're showing all y'all. Okay, okay. And Dr. Eric, on the other side. Yes, Dr. Eric, I am. All righty. Are we ready? Yeah, we ready. I mean, you didn't call my, I'm not part of the D-9.

I'm part of the D-10. You didn't call for Shizzle. My nizzle. I didn't hear you call them. And Susan Taylor's my mother, but she hasn't acknowledged me publicly. And when I called CARES, she sent me to the 1-800, who cares? So that's why I'm here. Okay, okay, gentlemen.

Okay, gentlemen, we got, okay, we get the clock going. We ready. All right? Okay, 10 minutes, get the clock going. All right. Who gives us $25,000? Hey, DJ, can you put on... $25,000.

Who gives us $25,000? $25,000. Raise your hand really high. And we got $25,000 right here? 25? Right here? Right here? Okay, hold on, Reggie.

Who's collecting the money? Right here. 25. So he's up 25. What do you have on your side? No, no, no, no. Who's collecting the money? Who's right name down?

We have that. Some Negroes will raise their hand and not pay. So we ain't doing that, Reggie. So how are we collecting the money? That's my side right there. 25 grand. Hey, Michael, she on this side of the table. She on my side.

No, she not. Okay. So we got 25,000 right here. Anybody else? Anybody $25,000? Anybody else say $25,000? We got $2.75 to go. Come on, your clock is ticking.

I can feel that money coming. Anybody else. Dr. King wants you to get... I want somebody here tonight. $15,000. All right, here we go. So we got $25,000 right here. Over here?

$15,000. Okay, Reggie, Reggie, you're moving too fast. The clock is ticking, really. I got the clock ticking. We're trying to get some money, okay? We got $25 here. On this side, who will match me at 25 to more than 75? Where's Captain Chanel?

Where's Darcy andine? Who on this side will match me at 25 plus to go to 75? Anybody. Now, remember, y'all can do five of y'all together at five. 10 of y'all together at $25.000. Kathy Shannon is just giving $25,000 in the attention. All right, that's the second 25. That's what that black card about.

Come on y'all. Okay, so I gave a 25, so it's two on this side, one on your side, Michael. So you need to hurry the hell off. $75,000 from Kathy Chanel, bro. Okay, but we got $25 here and $25 here. Anybody else over here with a black car? Anybody with a black car? Gentleman.

Anybody got a black car? We had $75,000. We need one more at $25 to get to $100. Anybody? $25,000? Huh? You can give up something. Hello.

Anybody? I'm seeing a hand. 25. We got right here. $25. All right. We had hit $100,000. We got $100,000.

We got a hundred dollars. See, I told you don't watch a brother. There you go, Reggie. It's like a black church. Anybody over here? You got to pull it out. Come on, y'all. We have 100,000.

We need 200,000 more. Reggie, next level. Anybody? 25,000. Next level, Reggie. Next level. 25,000. Who gets 50?

Where's Debbie Smith? What's in bed with? We had a 15,000. Hey, are you in church? Are you trying to lead a room? Or did you raise your hand? What was that? Don't raise your damn finger doing a hot?

What's wrong? 17,000. Sonny Hosston, are you standing up? We have $25,000. Where's Sunny? Is that the view, Sonny Hosson? Sonny, is that the $15,000 stand up? Or you're trying to tip out the, like the church? What are we doing?

Mani, Sandy, you don't stand up at auctions? Yeah, you ain't lying. Sit your hands down, Sonny. We about to hit you. We about to hit you. Is that Cookie Mason? Sonny, is that Cookie Mason next to her? Latanya Jackson just gave $20,000. All right.

Give it up for LaTan Jackson. Thank you. We're now at $120,000. We're up to $120. Come on, y'all. We're going to make this quick. $20,000. All right.

Let's go. 10,000 is next. 10,000. Come on, this is going to be easy. Can we have 10,000? Can we have 10,000? $10,000. $10,000.

Everybody got $10,000? Where's Dr. Genean? Dr. Janine said I need Botox, y'all. You got you? You raised your hand? We got 10,000. 10,000.

Hey, photographer. Stop pointing, man. Sit down. We're going to just jack somebody up. Who was this? I can't look at Ragee Van Lee. He's threatened me already. I can't look that way.

That's one week of a weed. 10,000 over here. There we go. Come on, y'all. 10,000. We got 10,000 at this front table. We got 10,000. We got 10,000 right here.

You got 10,000? All right, way to go. Way to go. Damn it clap. He gave 10 grand. What's wrong with you all? Ray McGuire. Ray McGuire, my man.

I know I can count. I was a pitch, Doc. I know I can come. Ray McGuire, what you got? Ray got way more than 10. So, Ray, Ray, Ray should have been with us at 25.

Ray, you got 10 for me. Hell yeah, he got 10. He got 10. You understand? Left side of the room. Michael, you're too low with Ray. Well, come on. Base, how low can you go?

All right, we're going to. Okay, where we're up to? Hey, we have to. Seven more minutes. Hey, hey, hey, Brayne Barcee out here. Where are all the mentors? Where are the mentors? I need y'all moving through the crowd because you're going to move in.

You're raising your hand? Hold on. Is that? Girl, how? Did you have your hand back here? Anybody? Oh, she's telling people to get out the way. 10,000.

10,000. I thought she would give them money, man. 10,000. Michael, that's your side. Going back there, listen what she got to say. Okay, that's your side. You got money? You got 10,000, man?

What's your got? You got 10,000 for us? Wait a minute, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. There's this table over here. I see. All right.

Rekal just turned ahead. We asked you for 10 or five. Where we at? Come on, y'all. Where we at? All right, 5,000. Rolling. Rolling behind you. Behind you. That table.

Five. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty. $5,000. Cookie Mason over here. That's what Ohio looked like. What? What? Hold up, Michael.

Hold up, Michael. All right. So since Congresswoman Joyce Beatty gave five. Right. Behind you, Cookie Mason's been trying to give you $5,000. Where's she had? Oh, over here. Over here.

How much y'all got? What you got cooking? Five. What's your name? 5,000. You got five? Michael? You said Sarrah. You said what?

She's AK. So hold on one second. I got a baby. That's the whole ACTA. That's the whole ACTA. Hold on. I got a Delta with five. I got a LATA with five.

Another five. We got five in the back. Five right here. Digging in the scene with a gangster lean. All right. Come on, y'all. Don't make us start singing up in here. How many other deltas are going to match?

Oh, wait, another five. Another five. There you go. Who is that? A thousand? That's another delta. Hey, AKA, y'all struggling. 5,000.

5,000. A.k.a. Jal struggling. What's up? I got five right here. When the Remy's in the system, ain't no telling what we got. Another five. Another five right here.

My man. Our man. We're killing rolling over here. 5,000 is a good number for this crowd. Any other, we got 5,000. Anybody else got five? I got five on it. Who got five on it?

I got five on it. Come on, y'all. You're real quiet back here. Come on. Is that how sonny? Much respect to those who great. political, is that the famous political strategies? Oh, they swear to brother, majorly, and I don't know why.

Your girl won't pay me. We're going to go 25. Somebody give me five. All right. We're going to go 2,500. Oh, man. Who contributes $2,500? They can go high, but we got to easy one.

$2,500? $25, $25.25. $25 going to $1.25 going twice. $25 right here. We got $25 on that. There's another $25,000. You know a lot of y'all need this right. No, no, I'm not looking at you, long.

Don't give me those looks. A lot of y'all need this right-off. Stop fronting. I was trying to do Detroit Piment. You got a free ticket you need to be given. Did we get Dr. Janine in the back? Did you get the $2,500 over here? You got those things.

She said she had money in her mess bag. Anybody else? $2,500. $2,500. You're going to make me... Anybody else? You're standing up. How much you're giving?

What you got? Bevy, we come to you for $1,000. Right here and four. $2,500. $2,500. $2,500. dollars. Quickly, quickly, we're going to get to a thousand, which is the last level. We got 2,500. Dr. Jeanine said, don't even know my email. You give five, I'll respond to your email right now.

We're going to get to a thousand. We're going to end up soon. You give five. I'll put you on the show tomorrow. Come on, y'all. We got 2,500 in the back. Anybody else? From Dr. Janine. Okay, last level. We're going to go. Right here. Here's somebody in the back. All right. Here we go. Here we go. Mike. $1,000.

This is going to be easy. Hold on. How much you got? Hold on. 2,500? 2,500. We got another $2,500 right there. All right, Michael.

Michael, we move it to a thousand. To a thousand. Who got a thousand? We need 20 people at $1,000 very quickly. Hold up. We got $1,000 right here. Thousand right here. A thousand over here.

Here's a thousand right here. You got it? Easy. That's three. We got a thousand right here. That's four. A thousand right here. That's five.

We got a thousand right here. We got a thousand over here. Hey, hey. Y'all need to move faster with the clip boy. Yeah, yeah. Where to clip? We got a thousand right here. Right here at this table.

All right? That's eight on my side. Dr. David John, a thousand. Rolling. Rolling, behind you. Behind you, rolling. I got a thousand here. That's nine on my side, Michael.

Two thousand right here, y'all. We got a thousand right here. Right here. She in the middle, so she on my side. Susan, how we doing, Susan? We're getting the money? Right here. She said, hell no.

You can't count? Can you count, sir? You got thousand right here. All right here. Huh? We got a thousand right here. You're almost in here. We're almost in the clipboard. We're good.

Three people here with a thousand. Over here. Right here. Here's a thousand behind. Did you contribute? Thousand right here. See, a thousand is easy number. It's a thousand dollars.

Him right here. Reggie Van Lee, how are we doing? All right. Oh, thousand over here? Oh my God. You got a thousand right now? Hey, we got a thousand right here. Roll it.

Right here. Right here. We got a thousand over here. You all get a thousand right there. You all right here. Hey, DJ, can you put on last two diamonds by Johnny Taylor? The crowd is giving money. Thank you, God.

We're almost there, y'all. I need some money music, DJ. Sister Lilly. Wake the hell up. Put on some money music. Johnny Kitt just got paid. Come on. Always and forever.

Come on, y'all. Each moment is with you. Come on, y'all. Anybody else in the time? Here. Rolling, right in front of you. Come on, y'all. Y'all got some dough.

Right here. Right there. You doing a thousand? Good. She made you do it. Anybody else? Thousand dollars. We have got $1,000 right here. Clipboard, clipboard. Come on. Come get this money. In the words of Frank Lucas, I'm going to get that money. Yeah.

Who else giving $1,000? Right here? Come on, man. You gave $25. Who are you doing $1,000? We're almost there. We're almost there. Two real. For money. Come on. She right here. She gave you a thousand right here.

A thousand? I got a thousand right here. She already got a card out. Come on, everybody else. Come on. What are we up to the round? Okay, two more minutes. Here's our music.

That's what I'm saying. Both times. All right, Reggie, we're going to $500. No, no, no. I think we're good. That's the music. That's the cue. No, the music is to get more money, Reggie.

Reggie. Don't lead, let money lead a room. Hey, Reggie, hold on. Who got $500? I need back on. Hey, what is Reggie giving? I don't know what Reggie doing. Those guys went, boom.

I don't know what the hell Reggie doing. Who got $500? Rolling. music guitar. Everybody got $500. I told them to play the music, Reggie. Here's two. $500 right here.

Five hundred. What are we doing? Tabarin. We got $500 right here. Come on now. Kep front. $500. Right here.

We got $500 right here. Hey, Susan, want us to get more money, Reggie. I'm going to have to come down. I got $500. You got $500 right now. Don't get that much. We got, I got $500 right here.

Right behind you. Anybody else? Anybody else. And Reggie, what's the count. What? Sorry. What's the towel on it? Oh, oh, oh, five.

500. Okay, 500. Count her right here. 500. Susan said keep going. 500. Come on. Oh, yeah, she said, keep going.

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failed these victims. Listen to Bleep with Anna Navarro as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Bob Pittman, Chairman and CEO of IHard Media, and I'm kicking off a brand new season of my podcast, Math and Magic, Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing. Math and Magic takes you behind the scenes of the biggest businesses and industries while sharing insights from the smartest minds in marketing.

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stories from the frontiers of marketing starting March 19th on the Iheart Radio app, podcast or wherever you get your podcast. That's it. Okay. All right. All right. $2.50. We got $2.50.

We got $2.50. We got $2.50. We got $250. Wow. Who's the cat that won't bow out? All right. We're going to $100. Who has $100?

Look at here. $0. $2.50. I need, you got the bull up. Right here. In the back. In the back. In the back.

$200. Man, right behind you. There is. I got it. Yeah. I'm in her. You got a thousand. You got a thousand.

You got a thousand. I got a thousand over here. Anybody else got you? With the flip boy, skipped a hundred dollar person because of the $1,000. The great Reverend Andreette Herb for $1,000.

You don't want to buy. There you go. Don't be asking her for no money. That's Susan Taylor's second best friend. Everybody, what's the total? You just want to take a selfie. Anybody else? Everyone take out your phone.

We just want to take a selfie. That's right. Hey, all you got fraternity, Corporated members, y'all ain't giving so. So if you're in the boule, raise your hand right now for at least a thousand. Okay, gentlemen. Reggie, Reggie, hold up. We're trying to get Buley money, Reggie.

He said, boo. Okay, if you're in the Boolet, you're supposed to be the baddest Negroes in America. I need to see, baby, I said Sigma Pfe fraternity, not a A.k.A. All right, gentlemen. Rollin. Even if you ain't in part of Boolet, if you're with your boo, give some money. That's what I'm saying. What we got over here.

All right. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. I'm going to need Reggie Van Lee up here with me for. We need the two regis to control these two guys down there. We're going to do a bonus moment now. So if you take out your QR code, for those who are going to give at the high level

who are interested in donating on a monthly basis, you can text the cares love at 4-4-321 to be able to make an impact, okay? At this time, we just want to make sure that you can take out your phones and just take a picture so you can show everybody this was a sold-out event. Can we give Susan a big round of applause, and thank you for your generosity? Can we give Roland and Dr. Eric a huge round of applause? We're going to give you a total at the end of the evening.

This was very amazing. So thank you for your support and your energy. That meant a lot, and obviously we just raised a lot of money. I think we got to the $300,000, but we'll give you the round. So at this time, we wanted to introduce and bring out Yasi, Yasi, Yannis, Janice, Janice, Yonis. I practiced six times, Janice. So we're going to have a champagne toast with Verve, Verve-Cliko, courtesy of our sponsor, Moed Hennessey. Thank you.

Cheers. Thank you so much. Thank you for your support. Of course, it's a pleasure. And this was not on the program, but I cannot leave this stage without giving a tremendous shout-out to Mother Susan Taylor, happy birthday to you. We are celebrating not just today, but every day and every moment for everything that you have done for us and continue to do for us. Thank you. Not to put you on a spot. Will you be our sponsor next year? Same thing? If you say my name right. So, so, so, so, so I'm from Haiti. That was a chalange. Okay, this time I'm, oh,

no, is he coming to the mic? Oh, Susan, he, he's, he's, he's, coming to the mic yasi yansi she said yannes yannes yannes el sappelle yannes thank you of course thank you reggie put the mic back she said see you next year bien sure maybe not you reggie but i'll see you okay thank you so much roland at this time we have a special guest we'd like to bring up to the stage hey lorda lewis good to see you lorda can we have Mikkelyne to the stage please? Mickeleine? Mickeleine to the stage.

Mickelein. McAleen. Mickelein Thomas, I know who you are and you look very sharp. So thank you so much for the support. Thank you. How's everyone doing this evening? Right? What a lovely night.

It's a deep honor to stand here and celebrate a woman who did more than lead us. She shaped us. Susan did not simply guide a publication. She nurtured a vision of black womanhood that was powerful, dignified, and undeniable. Last April, I had the privilege of photographing her for the cover of essence. Of all the moments of my career, that stands among the greatest, truly. It was one of the sets that I know that my mother wished she would have loved to be a part of and witness.

She loved Susan. She loved you dearly. Tonight, though, I bring a beautiful offering of gratitude, a signed limited edition of that cover image. A testament to a legacy that continues to. light the way. Everyone please stand up and join me to welcoming the woman who made us, Ms. Susan L. Taylor. Of course, top of the mark. That's who you are. Take care of yourself. We need you so. And that's what we're saying to all of us. Self-care is the critical piece right now.

This is the great vision of cares to help us sustain ourselves, maintain ourselves, to help us seed and sustain a self-supporting, self-renewing community, entrepreneurship. A community that tends to its families, nourishes the children, supports community-owned businesses. I want to see us own businesses in our communities. We can do that. And to model what it really looks like to truly care for one another. So working together, we can create America the Beautiful. That's really what I write about a lot when we're reaching out to our corporates. We're creating America the Beautiful. We can make it real.

But first, we must interrupt the drift toward selfishness and cruelty and chaos. We must reject any future that is built on fair domination or the erasure of the of our history and shared humanity. In the wealthiest nation in the world, there is no moral justification for hungry children, none at all. No excuse for under-resourced schools and poorly paid teachers, the heroes and shirals of our world. How do we underpaid teachers?

Educators, there's no defense for shredding young lives, writing them off as collateral damage. Not in this nation that their ancestors, our ancestors, ancestors built. Not after all that was sacrificed, not on our watch. So tonight, we claim our role. We choose love as action, community as strategy, and courage as our calling. We are not broken, and we're not finished. Together, we will get this done. We're going to get it done. We're going to get it done. We're going to do the work. And this is not the rough side of the mountain. If we know our history, we're going to do it done, we're going to do the work. And this is not the rough side of the mountain. We know that truth.

And now it's going to be my pleasure. On this sacred and joyful night, I'm just so honored that even while touring for her first album in 10 years, to whom it may concern, to whom it may concern, she made time to join us tonight. She has made time for the children. She always calls us to rise together, to rise in the light. of our love. So let us just pause and welcome the incredible Jill Scott. Is it our turn? Thank you kindly. I appreciate the good evening everyone. How are you tonight?

I'm just trying to see where Ms. Susan Taylor is going. Are you staying right here? Fantastic. Let's do it. 80, huh? believable. The things you've seen. The places, the spaces. These are the freemen. The exquisite. The lovely exquisite, Susan Taylor. Next Monday, our 2026 IHeart podcast awards are happening live at South by Southwest. This is the biggest night in podcasting.

We'll honor the very best in podcasting from the past year and celebrate the most innovative talent and creators in the industry. And the winner is creativity, knowledge, and passion will all be on full display. Thank you so much. Art Radio. Thank you to all the other nominees. You guys are awesome. Watch live next Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific free at Veeps.com or the Veeps app. I'm Clayton Eckerd, and in 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. Unfortunately, it didn't go according to plan. He became the first Bachelor to ever have his final rose rejected. The internet turned on him. If I could press a button and rewind it all I would. But what happened to Clayton after the show? Made even

bigger headlines. It began as a one-night stand and ended in a courtroom with Clayton at the center of a very strange paternity scandal. The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. Please search for it. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. This is love trapped. This season, an epic battle of He Said She Said, and the search for accountability in a sea of lies. Listen to Love Trapped on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Heart and TikTok have come together to create something new. I love it.

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Search for IHard TikTok Radio. Make it a preset and stay connected all day. I'm Anna Navarro and on my new podcast, Bleep with Anna Navarro. I'm talking to the people closest to the biggest issues happening in your community and around the world. Because I know deep down inside right now, we are

all cursing and asking what the bleep is going on. I'm talking to people like Julie K. Brown, who broke the explosive story on Jeffrey Epstein in 2018. These victims have been let down time and time again for decades and decades and decades by local law enforcement, by federal law enforcement, by administration after administration.

The Justice Department through, I think we counted four presidential administrations, failed these victims. Listen to Bleep with Anna Navarro as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Bob Pittman, Chairman and CEO of IHard Media, and I'm kicking off a brand new season of my podcast, Math and Magic, Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing. Math and Magic takes you behind the scenes of the biggest businesses and industries while sharing insights from the smartest minds in marketing. I'm talking to leaders from the entertainment industry to finance

and everywhere in between. This season on Math and Magic, I'm talking to CEO of Liquid Liquid Death Mike Sessario, financier, and public health advocate, Mike Milken, take two interactive CEO Strauss-Zalny. If you're unable to take meaningful creative risk and therefore run the risk of making horrible creative mistakes, then you can't play in this business. Sesame Street CEO Sherry Weston and her own chief business officer, Lisa Coffey. Making consumers see the value of the human voice and to have that guaranteed human promise behind it really makes it rise to the top.

Listen to math and magic, stories from the frontiers of marketing starting March 19th on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm signing such names. Way to take over, mother. Way to make gloriousness sing. The lovely exquisite. The lovely exquisite, Susan Taylor. You enrich and gift us.

You assign us unto us into our own category. You defy the meager narrative. You emboldened the lovely exquisite. The lovely exquisite Susan Taylor. Happy 80th, iconic sister. Happy birthday, my love. Did you raise some money? A lot of money?

As Susan Taylor told me about 3,472 times, this is for the children. Your style, your smile, your piecemeal. Ain't supposed to sensation verbal relations simulation We all continue to it But you're gonna

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