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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The influential and at times controversial American leader, Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson, has died. And Pierre Cheryl Corley reports Jackson built a national profile around civil rights and political activism.
Jesse Jackson's career spanned decades. In the 1960s, he was active in the civil rights movement and was an aide to Martin Luther King Jr. Later, he founded his Rainbow Push Coalition. In the 1980s, Jackson ran for president twice. His soaring speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention electrified the audience.
America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.
Howard University professor Clarence Lussain said Jackson also had a global footprint as he spotlighted and mediated disputes during his travels.
He was kind of a political Muhammad Ali.
During an NPR interview in 2016, Jackson said while other civil rights activists died young martyrs, he was blessed to be a long-distance runner. Cheryl Corley, NPR News.
There are two sets of high-profile talks today in Geneva, and the Trump administration is part of both. This morning, Trump envoys are holding indirect talks with Iranian diplomats over Iran's nuclear program. Iran has signaled it's willing to consider concessions, but President Trump also wants to focus on Iran's ballistic missiles and support for militant groups in the Middle East. Later today, U.S. envoys will join talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials in Geneva. Trump has been pressuring Ukraine to make concessions. The use of artificial intelligence is sparking fierce debate within American journalism. Several recent incidents have brought these debates into public view. NPR's David Folkenflik reports some news executives are eager to deploy AI.
At the Baltimore Sun, an AI program wrote up a lengthy analysis of an address by Maryland Governor Wes Moore. The piece was clearly marked as generated by AI. It also wrongly referred to President Trump as the former president. The News Guild called it slop. Publisher and editor Triff Alatsis says future editors must be more thoroughly reviewed, but that, quote, to ignore this powerful tool would be a mistake. In Cleveland, the editor of The Plain Dealer writes that job applicants should expect AI to draft articles from their original reporting. He says that frees up extra time for reporters. At both papers, humans edit the stories. Science and tech news site Ars Technica retracted a recent article that failed to disclose it relied on AI.
The story included fabricated quotations. David Folkenflik, NPR News.
Separately, former NPR host David Green is suing Google. It's for allegedly using an AI-generated voice that sounds very much like his on its notebook LM AI tool. Google uses this platform to create podcasts. Google told Washington Post it based the AI voice on a professional actor. This is NPR. The executive chair of Hyatt Hotels, Tom Pritzker, is retiring. His name has surfaced in the Justice Department's release of files on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Pritzker says he exercised terrible judgment and there is no excuse for failing to distance himself sooner from Jeffrey Epstein. A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration must restore the exhibit on slavery at the President's House site in Philadelphia.
It explains the lives of nine people enslaved by President George Washington while he lived there. The National Park Service took the exhibit down last month. From Member Station WHYY, Susan Phillips has more.
In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Roof quotes extensively from George Orwell's novel 1984, a dystopian story about authoritarianism. Roof writes the federal government does not have the power to, quote, disassemble historical truths. At the exhibit Monday afternoon, visitor Yolanda Parks said she's happy about the decision.
How will we know where we came from if the history doesn't remain? You can't change history just because right now you're feeling some type of way. I'm glad that we're putting it back up.
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