In this episode of the Black Headline News Talk Radio Show with Julia Ann Dudley Najieb, Cheryl Smith and Brigitte Jones, breaking news begins with destructive, record-breaking hurricane Beryl which is headed directly toward Jamaica as at least a category 4.  On the West Coast, record-breaking heat waves are lasting for days at a time, and are above 106 Fahrenheit. 
 
Meanwhile, Texas Representative Lloyd Dogget is urging President Biden to step down and let someone else lead.  The call significantly escalates pressure on Biden, 81, whose disastrous debate against Trump last week set off waves of panic among his supporters about whether he is capable of winning in November and serving another four years in the White House.

But Biden and his team have so far shut down any suggestion that he will leave the race.
 
In other news, Fortune reports that the number of Black Fortune 500 CEOS is a dismal low, thanks to the drop of DEI programs in corporate landscapes.

Jim Clyburn’s stern warning wasn’t a criticism of Black voters of any generation. He said he was guilty of not always sharing the details of the civil rights struggles he’d experienced — “I know what I had to go through, I know what I saw my parents going through” — but he said Trump posed enough of a threat to the Black community that he and other older Black leaders need to start speaking out about “the indignities that my mother and my father had to endure so I could be where I’m at today.”
 
BHN Radio Spotlight:  Master Distiller Nearest Green & CEO Fawn Weaver
 
To write “Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and The Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest,” CEO Fawn Weaver worked with archivists, historians and genealogists to find out more about Green's life. She was especially intrigued because some social media posts inaccurately claimed or implied Daniel had stolen Green's recipe and distilling techniques.
 
Feature News:
A Florida based newspaper in Miami allowed a pro-Trump political ad that had the "n word" laced throughout the ad to run for several weeks.  The publisher denies knowing beforehand because he claims the ad submitter missed the deadline--but the ad still ran anyway without review.
Finally an Alabama Black man denied his political win as mayor in 2020, wins a settlement in court.