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The Breakfast Club
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 14.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Mimi Brown breaks down the day's three biggest stories and what they mean for you. The Middle East war is hitting your gas tank. Republican-led states across the South are racing to redraw congressional maps after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. And the country's biggest retailers are finally admitting self-checkout doesn't work. Plus, Tennessee State Rep Justin Pearson joins the show to talk about the Memphis seat at the heart of the redistricting fight.
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| 0:00.0 | Gas prices are climbing and a war in the Middle East is fueling it. |
| 0:03.9 | Remember, the Strait of Hormuz was not closed at the beginning of this conflict. |
| 0:07.8 | This conflict has been a massive disaster. |
| 0:10.8 | Republican-led states across the South are racing to redraw the maps before the midterms, |
| 0:16.3 | and black political power is the target. |
| 0:19.1 | It's racist? You know it. |
| 0:22.0 | And the biggest retailers in America are finally admitting what you've been saying about self-checkouts for years. |
| 0:28.0 | Bringing sales associates back is more profitable. |
| 0:31.5 | It's Tuesday, May 12th. |
| 0:34.7 | From the Black Effect Podcast Network, I'm Mimi Brown. |
| 0:38.1 | This is front page, and here are today's biggest stories. |
| 0:42.8 | Plus, later in the show, Tennessee State Rep Justin J. Pearson joins me. |
| 0:48.0 | He's running for the Memphis seat at the center of all of this. |
| 0:51.5 | Stay with me. |
| 0:57.9 | If it suddenly feels like everything is getting more expensive again, gas, flights, shipping, groceries. This war in the Middle East is a big reason why. There's still |
| 1:05.0 | no deal to end the now 10-week conflict between the U.S., Israel, and Iran. President Trump rejected Iran's latest proposal on |
| 1:13.8 | Monday, called it, quote, totally unacceptable. Senator Corey Booker was on Meet the Press Sunday. |
| 1:20.2 | Remember, the Strait of her moves was not closed at the beginning of this conflict. This conflict |
| 1:24.5 | has been a massive disaster, And Donald Trump himself is an embarrassment |
| 1:28.8 | on the world stage. I hear it from allies all around the world. He has got us into a trap, |
| 1:34.7 | and we're effectively in a stalemate with Iran. And the people that are paying the price, |
| 1:39.5 | was American military, hundreds injured, 14 lives lost, and the American people collectively were spending |
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