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Speaker 1: Essence recently announced that Caroline Wanga has stepped down as

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Speaker 1: president and CEO of Essence Ventures. We all remember this

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Speaker 1: past summer, Wanga received a lot of backlash and online

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Speaker 1: scrutiny about this year's Essence Fest. Sundial Technology and Media Group,

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Speaker 1: parent company of Essence Ventures, released a statement that read,

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Speaker 1: in part, quote, we are profoundly grateful to Caroline for

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Speaker 1: her leadership, vision, and unwavering advocacy of Black women and culture.

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Speaker 1: The statement went on to say, Carolyn has left an

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Speaker 1: indelible mark on Essence and beyond, and we celebrate them anyways.

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Speaker 1: She has amplified our mission and impact end quote. Wanga

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Speaker 1: has been on health lead and she will move on

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Speaker 1: to our next chapter of her life and career.

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Speaker 2: So there you go.

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Speaker 1: So we look forward to Essence Fest next year. Then yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, or will they skip a year?

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Speaker 3: Steve?

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Speaker 4: What you say?

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Speaker 3: Thanks Gene that they had in that before Michelle E.

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Speaker 3: Banks and uh the young sister that ran all of

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Speaker 3: the booking and stuff, and that was a bad crew

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Speaker 3: right there.

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Speaker 4: They've they've been on struggle ever since they left.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so they have some remapping to do and maybe

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Speaker 5: talking to their readers and festival goers and give me

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Speaker 5: back and see what they can do to bring that

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Speaker 5: magic back to essence.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And it was a big money maker for them

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the tradition. We were there every year every year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Tommy Yeah. And other entertainment news. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: other entertainment news. And then he'd take off the following

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Speaker 1: Monday for work.

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Speaker 2: Remember that.

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chief football star Travis Kelsey

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Speaker 1: are officially now engaged. The two started dating in the

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Speaker 1: summer of twenty twenty three. Taylor's engagement ring is a

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Speaker 1: square oval diamond known as an old mine, cut in

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Speaker 1: a gold bezel setting. President Trump, remember he once said

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Speaker 1: that he hated Taylor Swift. Well, he commented on the

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Speaker 1: couple's engagement news. He said, quote, I wish him a

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Speaker 1: lot of luck.

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Speaker 2: Sus up.

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Speaker 1: Finally, always yes, just take congratulations.

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Speaker 2: I can't not take the high road. Ever.

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Speaker 4: You don't know what I say.

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Speaker 1: Sake congratulations and best wishes. That's what you say, all right.

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Speaker 2: Finally.

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Speaker 1: In trending headline news, the NAACP is suing the state

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Speaker 1: of Texas over a new electoral map. This is according

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Speaker 1: to the NAACP. The lawsuit accuses Texas of racially motivated

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Speaker 1: jerrymandering to silence black communities for next year's midterm elections.

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Speaker 1: The state of Texas is only forty percent white, but

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Speaker 1: white voters now I'll control over seventy three percent of

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Speaker 1: the state's congressional seats.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 1: Johnson, president and CEO of the naa ACP, set all

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Speaker 1: this in the statement. So they're suing the state of Texas.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and Texas knew exactly what they're doing, and they're

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Speaker 3: not gonna change it with the laws.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, see them all. Let's go. Don't get out of

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Speaker 2: the vote. Let's go, y'a. I got to register to vote,

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Speaker 2: I mean get out of vote.

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Speaker 1: You do, man, even though you feel hopeless, sometimes you

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Speaker 1: still got.

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Speaker 2: To exercise that right.

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Speaker 4: It's your right. I'm not begging nobody else to vote.

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Speaker 3: No more.

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Speaker 2: Look at his face.

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Speaker 1: You're not good. Yeah, you don't want.

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Speaker 3: To beg because what I don't I don't understand why

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Speaker 3: they cannot vote. I don't understand how you cannot understand

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Speaker 3: the significance because not votevoting is not participating. Not participating

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Speaker 3: is laying down and dying in it. And they get

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Speaker 3: to do exactly what they ain't.

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Speaker 1: No, but no, they're just as frustrated as you are

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Speaker 1: because they don't see the change they want when they vote.

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Speaker 2: That's the issue.

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Speaker 3: But they don't vote. See you hit him crazy part

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Speaker 3: you sit up here because after the election is over,

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Speaker 3: we get the numbers.

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Speaker 2: You complain.

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Speaker 3: About it, don't go the way when you vote. But

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Speaker 3: then when the results come out, we find out that

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Speaker 3: you didn't vote.

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Speaker 1: But then we still are staying responsibilability on this platform.

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Speaker 1: Steve to encourage people to vote. I mean, no matter

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Speaker 1: what we have to do, we still have to do

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Speaker 1: our part in encouraging them to vote. We have to

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Speaker 1: vote and encourage others to vote.

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Speaker 4: That Latinos for Trump? How that work out?

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Speaker 3: I don't even understand, man, How you don't even understand

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Speaker 3: all these blacks for Trump?

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Speaker 4: How that worked out for you? What?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 3: What part of what? What part of this that you

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Speaker 3: don't you get? What makes you think?

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Speaker 1: For years?

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Speaker 4: You know, people every day at their jobs, they call.

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Speaker 2: Every sparating family.

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Speaker 3: They're a huge percentage of Latinos voted for Trump.

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Speaker 4: A huge percentage of black men voted for Trump. I

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Speaker 4: think the number is twenty eight percent.

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Speaker 3: Now that's that's what and listen, man, we do we

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Speaker 3: we I don't know, I don't know how.

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Speaker 4: We don't understand this.

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Speaker 5: What you're voting didn't But if your vote didn't mean anything,

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Speaker 5: why they're doing all this redistricting, changing electoral map.

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Speaker 4: That part they don't that's all.

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Speaker 1: That's the disconnect. They don't get that part.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, take your head in the sand and then democracy pull.

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Speaker 3: It out and want something to be different. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: ain't voting. I ain't going down there vote. Okay, bro, sister.

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Speaker 1: That's the vote for the opponents when you don't do that.

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Speaker 1: But we still gotta encourage him, Steve, don't don't get

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Speaker 1: too frustrated. We still have to do it. Look at all,

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Speaker 1: all right, you're listening, Steve Harvey Morning Show