Roland Martin Reports Daily Podcast
Summary: Roland S. Martin is a nationally award-winning and multifaceted journalist. A nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate, Mr. Martin is the author of Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith, and Speak, Brother! A Black Man’s View of America, and his newest book, “The First: President Barack Obama’s Road to the White House as originally reported by Roland S. Martin.” Mr. Martin is a commentator for TV One Cable Network and host of “Washington Watch with Roland Martin,” a one-hour Sunday morning news show. He is also a CNN Analyst, appearing on a variety of the network’s shows. In October 2008, he joined the Tom Joyner Morning Show as senior analyst.
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Podcasts:
• A jury in Milwaukee has acquitted a former police officer in the fatal shooting of Sylville Smith. • Voting Rights Advancement Act: Members of Congress and activists will conduct a voting rights ‘Speak Out’ today on Capitol Hill to introduce new legislation that would restore full protections to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. • […]
• Black women activists and elected officials have a message for Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez – there’s too much at stake for them to be ignored. They are calling for dialogue on how the DNC can step it up with African American women – from supporting Black female candidates to putting them […]
• Trump’s budget targets programs that help the poor, eliminates the Minority Business Development Agency and offers no new money for HBCUs. CBO Report: GOP health bill would leave 23 million more Americans uninsured within a decade. • HUD Secretary Ben Carson says ‘poverty is a state of mind.’ • Greg Gianforte, a GOP House candidate from Montana […]
• New allegations by fired FBI Director James Comey who said President Trump asked him to shut down the investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s ties to Russia just one day after Flynn was fired for lying to Vice President Mike Pence. • Should President Donald Trump be impeached? Is there enough evidence for Articles […]
• The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature fighting to reinstate one of the strictest Voter ID laws in the country. • Rev. William Barber announces he is stepping down as the leader of North Carolina’s NAACP in June. Rev. Barber is bringing his moral movement to the […]
• A number of Democratic congressional lawmakers called for a special prosecutor to investigate the firing of James Comey after President Trump admitted in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt that he fired Comey because of the escalating investigation into his ties to Russia. • Attorney General Jeff Sessions is making sweeping changes to the […]
• In an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, President Trump called ousted FBI Director James Comey a “showboat” and a “grandstander” and contradicted his own staff’s account of how his firing went down. • Former Florida Congresswomen Corrine Brown was found guilty of more than a dozen counts in her federal corruption trial. • Trump signs […]
• One day after President Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey, questions are rampant about his true motives. • Betsy DeVos’ commencement speech at Bethune-Cookman was met with a chorus of boos and jeers. Some graduating students turned their backs on her. • Harassment of American University’s First Female black student body president Taylor […]
• In a stunning move, President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey the man who is leading the Department’s investigation into collusion between Russia and Trump’s campaign officials. • The racial discrimination lawsuit against Fox News Network is growing. Two more people have joined the lawsuit initially filed six weeks ago. Former Florida Congresswoman Corrine […]
• Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates told lawmakers yesterday that she requested a meeting with the White House in late January to alert them that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had lied about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. • In New Orleans, tensions heightened over the efforts to remove […]
• President Trump called on Senate Republicans to work with the newly passed House health care bill while lawmakers say it’s dead-on-arrival. • Former President Barack Obama weighed in on the health care debate while accepting the 2017 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at the JFK Library in Boston. • After signing an Executive […]
• NewsOne Now takes a look at some of the most egregious police misconduct and police brutality cases across the nation. A Florida cop charged with attempted manslaughter in the shooting of an autistic man’s unarmed therapist. A White Sacramento cop caught on tape choking and punching a Black jaywalker. A Georgia police officer was cop […]
• In an exclusive interview Rapper Boosie Badazz blasts the Biloxi Police Department for apparently stealing his jewelry, worth $1 million, after an altercation with mall security and an arrest. • Civil asset forfeiture is a legal procedure in which cops can seize and then keep or sell any property suspected of being involved in a crime. […]
A murder-suicide at San Bernardino, California Elementary School is shedding light on a much bigger problem of domestic violence within the Black community. FL State Attorney Aramis Ayala filed a lawsuit against Gov. Scott over death penalty cases. A Chicago judge is now one of the more than 150 people shot and killed in the […]
• A federal judge ruled that the Texas voter ID law passed in 2011 intentionally discriminates against minorities despite claims it was enacted to fight voter fraud. • Neil Gorsuch was sworn in as America’s 113th Supreme Court Justice on Monday. How will Gorsuch’s addition to the High Court impact civil rights cases, criminal justice case […]
