#RolandMartinUnfiltered

6.6.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: ATL Cop City Funds Approved, Jackson, Miss. $115M for Water Crisis, Famous Amos Success Initiative The Atlanta City Council votes 11 to 4 to fund a controversial police training facility, despite hundreds of community members speaking out against it.  One of the four council members who voted against the measure will join me tonight. Jackson, Mississippi, receives...

6.2.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Biden Changes Home Valuation Bias, May Jobs Report, & 7th-grader Called Gangster for Braids Vice President Kamala HarriFunknounced that the Biden administration is changing the rule on home valuation to combat racial bias. We will speak with a real estate expert to discuss what this means for Black homeowners. A Louisiana principal is under fire for questionin...

6.1.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: US Supreme Court Rulings, GA Sheriff's Assault Allegations, Debt Ceiling Vote, UberEats Controversy The Supreme Court rulings released several important rulings today on Unions, drug prices, and workplace communications.  We'll speak with Elie Mystal, Justice Correspondent for The Nation, about what these rulings mean for you. A Georgia County Sheriff's office fac...

5.31.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: NCBCP Leadership Institute, TX Impeachment Vote, TX Voting Changes & DEI, MN Missing Persons Office Roland at Clark Atlanta University for the launch of the NCBCP Thomas W. Dortch, Jr. Institute For Leadership. He'll speak with social justice leaders on its significance.  Plus, Roland breaks down the Texas impeachment vote and speaks with Texas State Represen...

5.30.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Debt ceiling agreement fallout; Texas passes Crown Act; Juneteenth inclusion drama The recent debt ceiling deal agreement will change access to social programs and start student loan repayments sooner than expected. We'll examine how this agreement will impact black and brown Americans at higher rates and what lawmakers are doing to address these concerns. The De...

5.26.2023 5.26.23 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: MS Boy Shot by Cops, Keith Murriel Footage, TX University President Retires An 11-year-old boy was shot by police after calling 911 to report domestic abuse, and we'll speak with the family attorney to provide you with the latest details.  Additionally, the body camera footage of the three former Mississippi police officers indicted for the murder of Keit...

5.25.23 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: George Floyd 3 Years Later, NC Judge Blasts Arrest, Woman Fall Out Cop Car Lawsuit, We Won't Back Down We'll look back at the brutal death of George Floyd at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin three years later.   We'll speak with George Floyd's brother, founder of Philonise & Keeta Floyd Institute for Social Change, about their ongoin...

5.24.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: AP Series: Birth to Death & Racial Disparities, George Floyd Anniversary, Tina Turner Tribute A new series of reports from the Associated Press sheds light on the disparities black people face in health, education, and more. We will speak with The Associated Press Detroit National Investigative Writer for Race and Ethnicity about her findings and how this sta...

5.23.23 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Record Settlement for Christian Glass Family, Drop in BLM Donations, Remembering Jim Brown A Colorado family receives the largest police settlement in state history after the killing of Christian Glass. But the question remains, does it have to do with race? We will speak with one of the attorneys on the case about this historic settlement.  We'll examine controver...

5.22.23 #RolandMartinUnfiltered:Lashawn Thompson Autopsy, Debt Ceiling Negotiations, Tim Scott 2024,Loneliness Health Advisory  The death of a Georgia inmate covered in bed bug bites is classified as a homicide.  Ben Crump, representing Lashawn Thompson's family, will be here to tell us what an independent autopsy uncovered about this disturbing neglect case.  The U.S. is about ten days away from...

5.19.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Black & Tax Audit, SC Critical Race War on Education, Jordan Neely Funeral, Remembering Jim Brown One of the greatest to ever hit the gridiron, Jim Brown, has died.  Our second-hour fo of the show will be dedicated to the man who quit the game at the height of his career and became a successful Hollywood actor and influential activist at the peak of the civil...

5.18.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: NC Legislator Racist Question, Rep Plaskett Slams Jim Jordan, Jamaal Bowman Talks MTG & Gun Control A White North Carolina lawmaker interrupts a black colleague to ask a racist question about his educational background. We'll speak directly with North Carolina Representative Abe Jones about the incident and holding racists accountable. Chaos erupts on Capitol...

5.17.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: White Supremacy in America, Rep Crockett Schools Republicans on DC Crime Bill, MO DA Fights for Innocent Man's Freedom Tonight, we are dedicating the first hour to examining how white supremacy is not only the biggest threat to America but also how social and mainstream media have played a role in making white domestic terrorists more emboldened to act. We will s...

5.16.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: ProPublica NYPD Shooting Report, Fox News Hosts Deny White Supremacy, Nikki Fried Talks 2024 ProPublica releases a scathing report on the NYPD's blue wall of silence.  The report uncovers the culture of police corruption and violence.  It also shows how the NYPD  covered up the death of Kawaski Trawick, a black man who was shot and killed in 2019 by police office...

5.15.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Buffalo, N.Y. Massacre: A year later, Andrew Gillum Charges Dropped, Dissecting White Supremacy Buffalo, New York, pauses to mark one year since a white supremacist gunman killed 10 Black people and wounded three victims at a supermarket.  Mayor Byron Brown is here to discuss how the city copes a year later. Federal prosecutors are dropping the remaining 18 fraud...

5.12.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: NY man charged in Jordan Neely Death, 1st SC Black woman Dems Chair, FCC Commissioner on Tegna deal The white man who killed Jordan Neely on a New York subway train surrendered to police this morning and now is facing a charge of second-degree manslaughter. We will give you the details of his arraignment and show you what Jordan's family said following the arrest...

5.11.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: NY Subway Chokehold Suspect to be Charges, Title 42 Expires, Roland Deconstructs CNN Trump Town Hall As the clock ticks towards midnight, the expiration of Title 42 is set to impact migrants and the border of Texas.  We will speak with an Immigrant Rights Activist about how this will impact Black and brown asylum seekers, who are often ignored or overlooked. A Ma...

5.10.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: MS House Bill Hearing on Capitol Police Expansion, AAMA's New President, Biden Clapbacks at Reporter A face-off in a Mississippi courtroom on the constitutionality of House Bill 1020.  A law that will expand capitol police jurisdiction into Jackson, Mississippi, and create a new court system.  One of the attorneys from the case will join us tonight to tell us wha...

5.9.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump liable for battery, Roland Takes on Project 21 about Gun Reform, & Honoring Harry Belafonte A New York jury finds former President Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation in the E. Jean Carroll case and orders him to pay $5 million in damages.  We'll discuss what this means for his presidential candidacy. On Saturday, I had the pleasure of speakin...

5.8.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Mass Shootings & Anxiety, DOJ Finds AL Neglects Black Residents, Remembering Harry Belafonte  The decades-old water and sewage crisis in Alabama's "Black Belt," Lowndes County.  The Department of Justice found a pattern of neglect from Alabama's  Department of Public Health had a pattern of neglect and failed to act on the county's water problems.  I'll talk t...

5.5.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: NAACP Blocks state control in MS, GA oversight to remove prosecutors, Exclusive with Gina Belafonte The NAACP has won a significant victory against the Mississippi state government, temporarily restoring Jackson residents' voting power and voice in how justice is administered in the city. We will speak with the Executive Director of The Mississippi ACLU to discuss...

5.4.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: TX Approves State Power to Overturn Elections, Gillum Acquitted, DreamDefenders Arrested  GOP-controlled Senate in Texas has proposed a controversial new law allowing the state to overturn elections. This has sparked concerns about the future of democracy in the state, and we'll have all the details in this fast-moving story. Former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum...

5.3.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: ATL Mass Shooting; Tucker Carlson’s racist texts; Andrew Young talks Harry Belafonte There have been 180 mass shootings this year so far. We are in the middle of one of the deadliest years as Republican lawmakers fight to make access to guns easier. We will speak with the National African American Gun Association President about what policy can be passed to combat...

5.2.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: FL States Attorney DeSantis Letter, Tegna Deal Gets New Life, Rep. Maxine Waters Remembers Belafonte Republicans across the nation are in an all-out assault on black prosecutors. Today we will speak with a Black state attorney from Florida who has come under fire from conservatives, including DeSantis, who alleges that she's soft on crime. The controversy surround...

5.1.2023 ##RolandMartinUnfiltered: Turmoil In East Africa, 2024 Election Season, Black Book Stores Publishing Co Snubs, US Debt Ceiling House Speaker Kevin McCarthy introduced the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, which will raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion for about a year and decimate student loan forgiveness, some Veteran Affairs Benefits, and other social programs. We will explain how this...