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The Breakfast Club

The Alabama Map, The Anthony Trial, and Halle Berry's Mission

The Breakfast Club

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Comedy

4.414.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Mimi Brown breaks down the day. The Supreme Court hands Alabama a congressional map a lower court called intentionally racist. Testimony begins in the Karmelo Anthony murder trial, and no Black jurors will hear the case. And Halle Berry has a new mission that starts at the gynecologist's office. Plus, the Front Page Friday Quiz.  

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0:00.0

The Supreme Court just allowed Alabama to move forward with a congressional map.

0:09.2

Lower court's ruled discriminates against black voters.

0:12.3

It's an overwhelming volume of evidence.

0:15.2

Testimony is now underway in the Carmelo Anthony murder trial, with zero black jurors on

0:20.2

the panel.

0:24.0

A tragedy all the way around for both families.

0:26.8

And Hallie Berry is taking on women's health care.

0:29.5

Even as an actor, I'm a woman first.

0:31.9

It's Friday, June 5th.

0:35.3

From the Black Effect podcast network, I'm Mimi Brown.

0:39.2

This is Front Page and here are the day's biggest stories.

0:45.6

Plus, the Front Page Friday quiz is back. Three questions from this week's headlines as we shout out last week's winners. Stay with me. Another week, another major hit to black voting power in

0:54.1

America and this time from the Supreme Court.

0:57.0

So the court just allowed Alabama Republicans to move forward with a congressional map that lower courts already ruled was racist against black voters.

1:05.9

So federal judges already ruled that Alabama lawmakers drew these maps in a way that weakened black political power

1:12.2

on purpose. The court said black voters were basically packed into one district, while other black

1:18.3

communities were split up across mostly white Republican districts, making it harder for black voters

1:23.5

to influence elections. And remember, black people make up more than a quarter of Alabama's

1:29.0

population. So Alabama used a different map in 2024, and that one gave black voters real

1:35.1

influence in two congressional districts and help elect Congressman Shemari figures. Now the

1:41.0

Supreme Court's conservative majority has sided with the state and allowing Alabama to move forward with the map that the federal lower court already said was discriminatory.

1:51.9

Since this court has been hearing the evidence in this case, they've been pretty consistent in their belief that there was an overwhelming volume of evidence that the state of Alabama discriminated against

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