This hour of The Morning Experience digs into the stories that make you stop mid-sip and say… wait, WHAT?

We start with “Things That Make You Say Hmmm…”, breaking down the arrest of 21-year-old activist and Temple University student Jerome Deangelo Richardson, who turned himself in after a federal warrant tied to an anti-ICE church protest in Minnesota. We unpack what he’s being charged with, why the FACE Act is suddenly back in the headlines, and how his case connects to the arrests—and releases—of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, plus Minneapolis activists fighting back against what they say is criminalized protest.

Then we zoom out to the South, where a Gullah Geechee community on Sapelo Island scores a rare win against gentrification, voting down a referendum that could’ve priced Black landowners out of their ancestral homes.

And just when you think the news can’t get more surreal: a Florida IVF clinic mix-up sparks a lawsuit after white parents say they were implanted with the wrong embryo—raising serious ethical, legal, and racial questions about reproductive medicine in America.

We close the hour with Conversation & Chill—context, clarity, and real talk about power, protest, property, and how these stories connect in ways the headlines don’t always explain.