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Black documentary filmmakers with its second monthly entry, a multi-layered story that is as much about redemption and society as it is about notorious acts.
In “Miles in the Life: The Story of a BMF Drug Trafficker,” we meet Jabari Hayes, who grew up in crack-era Brooklyn during its 1980’s epidemic, with his mother falling victim to the narcotic. While Hayes eventually escaped to St. Louis, Missouri to live with his father, and eventually became a star student athlete at Morehouse College, graduating summa cum laude, he found himself once more at the center of the drug game.
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Helen Whitelaw, 76, appeared on ITV s Tipping Point in 2019, winning almost £3,000.
A year later, she was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, which makes speech slurred due to failing muscles in the tongue, lips, vocal cords and chest.
But engineers have now used her Tipping Point footage to capture the sound of her voice and build it into a computer aid that enables her to express herself more clearly.
A pensioner whose ability to talk was lost to illness has had her own voice reconstructed on computer – thanks to an earlier appearance on a TV gameshow. Helen Whitelaw, 76, appeared on ITV s Tipping Point in 2019, winning almost £3,000
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image captionHelen Whitelaw can speak again in her own voice, using a computer aid, thanks to clips from the TV show
A Scottish woman who lost her speech after developing motor neurone disease (MND) has had it reconstructed using sounds from her appearance on the ITV gameshow Tipping Point.
Helen Whitelaw appeared on the show in 2019, winning almost £3,000.
She was diagnosed with MND the following year, after which her speech rapidly deteriorated.
But engineers took the audio of the 76-year-old s TV appearance and used it to build her voice into a computer aid.
Ms Whitelaw of Glasgow has thanked them for giving me back my voice .