#RolandMartinUnfiltered

10.10.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: GA Voter Suppression, Racist LA City County Pres. Resigns, Fox News & Kanye, Winter Workouts An old audio clip of Georgia's Governor Brian Kemp talking about minority voters resurfaces.  We'll look at what's happening in Georgia as one county just dismissed 22,000 voter registration challenges.  Nse Ofot, CEO of the New Georgia Project Action Fund, will help...

10.7.2022 RMU Special Voting Show: We Won't Black Down Bus Tour @ Texas Southern University Tonight's show is a special voting edition of Roland Martin Unfiltered, streaming live on the Black Star Network.   Texas Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas Gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rouke, the co-founders of Black Voters Matter, LaTosha Brown and Clif Alright, and many others will be joining to...

10.6.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Biden's Marijuana Pardons, Mich's 38 Shots In 3 Seconds, Flint Water Crisis Charges Dropped President Joe Biden pardons all federal offenses of simple marijuana possession.  It's the first significant step towards decriminalization.  We'll talk to a cannabis advocate about what this means to those who get a fresh start and small cannabis businesses.  A new video...

10.5.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: KCMO Police Troubles & White Media’s Supremacist Hypocrisy, OPEC Cuts Oil Production, WeKinkfolk App The Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri addresses  the DOJ's investigation of the city's police department.  When we had the CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City on the show, I called out the President of the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, Bis...

10.4.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: SCOTUS & Voting Rights, Black Man Sues Park Police,White Texas Cop on Trial, Kanye's Shirt, Naturade The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Merrill v. Milligan, a consolidated case on whether Alabama's 2021 redistricting map for seven congressional seats violates the Voting Rights Act.  We'll hear some of today's arguments and talk to Evan Milligan, one of...

9.30.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Hurricane Ian, Justice Jackson's 1st SCOTUS Debut, White NC Sheriff Black Rant, HBCU Pilot Pipeline The first black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, has her Investiture ceremony, taking the Judicial Oath. Hurricane Ian is barreling through South Carolina and is likely the largest natural disaster in Florida's history.  We'll talk to the Dep...

9.29.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Ginni Thomas Faces Jan. 6 Committee, Coolio Dies, Miss. Water Crisis, Black Girls & Suspension Rates Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was questioned by the House January 6 Committee today.  She told the Jan. 6 investigators she still believes the 2020 election was stolen.  We'll break it all down.  We lost another great one.  G...

9.28.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: NAACP's Jackson, Miss. Discrimination Complaint, DeSantis' KKK Appointee, Fanbase Update The NAACP filed a race discrimination complaint against the state of Mississippi over Jackson's water crisis for alleged discriminatory practices in its disbursement of federal funds to fix the capital city's infrastructure.  The black man who was thrown about in a Connecticu...

9.23.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: DOJ KCMO PD Probe, FAMU Students Sue Fla. over State Funds, McClain Autopsy Amended, IL Cop Charged Kansas City civil rights groups have long known their police department had high incidences of violence against Black and Latino people and racist hiring practices.  Now the Department of Justice is investigating.  The President and CEO of the Urban League of Great...

9.27.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Black Women's Roundtable, Roland a 'Lap Dog'?, HBCU College Ranking Exclusions, NC EPA Office The Black Women's Roundtable will host its 14th annual policy forum Series Wednesday during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference.  Melanie Campbell, President  and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, will be here...

9.26.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Black Ga City Council Insulted by White Alderman, Circle City Classic Canceled, NC EPA Office Two Georgia Alderpersons get into a heated exchange of words.  A white man and a black woman.  The white man is accused of calling the black woman  "A Ghetto B****." We'll talk to the alderwoman about their acrimonious history.   Indianapolis' Circle City Classic footbal...

9.22.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Ginni Thomas to Testify for Jan. 6 Committee, Miss. Welfare Fraud Plea, Women's March Movement Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, will testify before the House January 6 Committee.  Thomas wants to  'clear up any misconceptions about her work relating to the 2020 election.  Remember, there are text messages of her urging the overturn...

9.21.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: NY's AG Sues Trump for Fraud, LA Black Pageant Judge Agrees w/White Judge, Suns/Mercury Sale  New York Attorney General Letitia James is not playing with those Trumps!  Today, she announced the massive fraud in a civil lawsuit following a three-year inquiry into the finances of the family business.  We'll break down the allegations.  The Federal Reserve raises in...

9.16.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Fmr. KCMO Det. Arrested for Assaulting Black Women, DOJ Migrant Probe Requested, Black Ed. Station A retired  Kansas City, Kansas homicide detective gets arrested by Federal authorities for kidnapping and sexually assaulting two women twenty years ago.  I'll talk to an activist to find out why it took so long for this officer to get charged.  Flordia Governor Ron...

9.15.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Transported Migrants,Detriot's Divisive HWY,Racists & The Little Mermaid,Police Stop Blacks More  More migrants get escorted out of Florida.  Some ended up in Martha's Vineyard, while others were dropped off in front of Vice President Kamala Harris' D.C. home.  Detriot gets a substantial grant to reconnect a black community separated by what's called one of t...

9.14.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Child Poverty Rate Drops, Insurers Push Police Reform, Tyler Perry & Hollywood Diversity A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities indicates that government policies during the pandemic helped cut the child poverty rate to a record low.  We'll break that down with Economist William Spriggs.  Police misconduct settlements are in the billions...

9.13.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Ill. SAFE-T Act, DNA Arrest Lawsuit, Stacey Abrams, Salamander Resorts, Remembering Ramsey Lewis Illinois' massive crime reform package, the SAFE-T Act, is designed to eliminate cash bail reducing the number of people detained in jail while they await trial.  But misinformation about the bill set to go into effect in January 2023 is popping up all over the intern...

9.12.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Jackson's Water Crisis, Black Ala. Pastor Sues For Wrongful Arrest, HBCU Money Games, Gut Health Jackson, Mississippi's water crisis continues.  Residents have restored pressure, but the water is still unsuitable for consumption.  After the show, I'll join The Poor People's Campaign's Moral Monday virtual town hall called Mississippi Voices.  One of the organizer...

9.9.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Migrant Emergency, Black GA Man Convicted On Added Charge During Trial, Jeff Bezos take on Uju Anya  Thousands of migrants are being bussed to major cities, like New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.  D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser has declared a state of emergency.  We'll talk to an immigration lawyer and the policy director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration to...

9.8.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: OH Cop Kills Unarmed Black Man, Oath Keepers Outed, Remembering Bernard Shaw & David Arnold Another unarmed black man is killed by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio.  Donovan Lewis was in bed when cops tried to serve an arrest warrant at 2am.  Donovan was shot seconds after an officer opened the bedroom door.  We'll talk to the family's attorney about what's...

9.7.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Black Star-Urban Edge's GCAC Media Deal, 5/3 Bank refuse to cash check,S.C. Black Activist Sentence  #RMU is LIVE in New Orleans with a major announcement! Black Star and Urban Edge Networks secured a media rights deal with HBCU-centric Gulf Coast Athletic Conference!  A pregnant Black woman is serving four years in a South Carolina prison for her actions during a...

9.6.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Baltimore Water Advisory, Jackson, Miss. Water Crisis, South Carolina Cancels BYU Season Opener Residents and businesses across roughly 56 Baltimore city blocks are under a boil water advisory after E. Coli was found in some water samples. Mayor Brandon Scott will be here to give us the latest.  Jackson, Mississippi's water crisis could be ending as reports of the...

9.1.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Jackson Water Crisis, $325M lawsuit against AT&T, BLM's Future, Blacks & Racism, Jamarion Robinson The water crisis in Mississippi's state capitol continues. Tonight, Roland talks to Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, to find out how much longer the city will be with little to no water.   Jamarion Robinson was shot at least 59 times by two Georgia...

8.31.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: FAMU prez meets with students; Biden: State of emergency in Jackson, MS; NC town fires Black mayor FAMU's president, Dr. Larry Robinson, held a press conference after meeting with students. We'll show you what he had to say. And Head Football Coach Willie Simmons says he supports his players and is proud that they are speaking up for themselves.  President Joe Bi...

8.30.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Black mayor under fire for taking down confederate statue; Duke/BYU update; FAMU responds to critics;Jackson water crisis; Rep. Khanna talks student loan debt; Black North Carolina mayor under fire for dismantling a confederate monument Duke's United Black Athletes Executive Board makes a statement about the racist comments made to a Duke volleyball player during...