franc: oh, buenos dias, senor.. margaret: and then there was courtship of eddie s father. they had a housekeeper who was asian. miyoshi umeki. mrs. livingston: eddie, if there s anything you need. margaret: we re like relatively invisible but we re used as kind of like a condiment. [crowd singing] gerrad: in the tumultuous 60s there was segregation in tv, just like we were seeing in real life. laura: but you re beginning to get a real pickup on the level of the civil rights movement. sheryl: black people were speaking up saying, you must include me. bambi haggins: hal kantor wrote on amos and andy and as the story goes, he went to a lunch where the speaker was a civil rights leader, roy wilkins, who talked about the significance of representation. steve cox: so kanter decided to create a program
and we had a couple of more writers who were themselves african-american. beretta smith shomade: does lear miss the mark a lot? yeah, he does. but he does capture some moments that had not been captured before in terms of showing african-american culture. sheryl: i believe that it is important to have writers in the room that understand the characters of the show. the pains, the pleasures, the joy. if not, it looks like amos and andy.
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phone in or even participate, then i go to the radio and television news and bbc news is a particular medium which is important for a range of things. i don t understand why are you doing it? is it cost saving? if so, just seems to be misplaced. the effect of it is that i, and i suspect many others, migrate to another news medium. and that s sky news. on the point mentioned by sheryl mentioned. they re about the loss of presenters such as anita mcvey and martine croxall. we asked the bbc about their status and that of other female presenters all over 45 who haven t appeared on the news channel since march. the bbc told us we value all of our staff, but we do not comment on individual hr matters. well, let s talk now to paul royle, who is in charge of the news channel.
nord strom closing two stores as region continues to see thefts by brazen thieves. ashley: what a mess. sheryl, what is going on with ai today? cheryl: something everyday. it doesn t stop. ceos of google and microsoft, and other tech leaders will meet with vice president kamala harris thursday at the white house to discuss the future of ai, artificial intelligence. ibm ceo says the contlo versial tech will eliminate american jobs. i do believe and said this before that ai will replace many clerical white-collar jobs, that is the kind ai will replace over next five years. it is not as simple as jobs go away. the number of jobs including business process and artificial