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Today is Monday, January 18th and you're listening to the morning announcements.

I'm Sammy Sage.

In honor of MLK Day, before we get to the headlines, I wanted to share an excerpt from a speech that

MLK gave in 1967 called The Three Evils of Society that I

thought remains extremely relevant to the continuing struggles that we're facing

against white supremacy today. Here's a clip. So let us stand in this convention knowing that on some positions,

how it is asked the question, is it safe? Expediancy asked, the question is it politic.

Vanity asked, the question is it popular,

but conscience asks, the question is it right? but conscience asks the question is it right?

On some positions.

On some positions.

On some positions it is necessary for the moral individual to take a stand that is neither

safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because it is right.

Switching gears to the complete opposite of what is right, let's talk about the market for Trump administration pardons.

The New York Times reported yesterday that a number of Trump allies have been collecting fees from wealthy felons in return for lobbying the

Trump administration for a pardon. One lobbyist and former federal prosecutor

who's advising the Trump administration on pardons named Brett Tolman has reportedly collected tens of thousands of dollars

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