#RolandMartinUnfiltered

5.2.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Where's Felicia Johnson?, Reversing Diabetes, Cops Murder Charges, Moral March on Washington Preview A California father is desperately looking for his daughter, who disappeared 3-weeks ago on a trip to Houston.  We featured Felicia Marie Johnson in one of our Black and Missing segments; her father will update us on the search. U.S. delegation took a trip to...

4.29.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: L.A. Riots: 30 Years Later; Wells Fargo sued for race discrimination in mortgage lending practices A look back at what has changed in L.A. over the past 30 years after the 1992 riots.    Wells Fargo sued for race discrimination in mortgage lending practices.  One of the class-action plaintiffs and attorney Ben Crump address Wells Fargo's actions. S...

4.28.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: 2nd chance for Kaepernick? S.C. Hate Crime Bill, FDA's Menthol Ban, Endemic v. Pandemic, Sen. Tim Kaine Raiders owner Mark Davis says he's open to signing Colin Kaepernick. There are just a few days remaining for South Carolina's hate crime bill to pass. The bill is named after State Senator Clementa Pinckney, who was gunned down with eight other black church mem...

4.27.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Black Fla. man fights to stay out of prison, Mpls PD's Race-Based Policing, Twitter & Free Speech In 1989, he was convicted of murder. He spent nearly 32 years in prison. In 2018, his conviction was overturned but didn't get released until 2021.  But a federal judge reversed the overturned conviction.  Now there's a good chance Crosley Green will ha...

4.26.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Cop Named in Lyoya Killing, Biden Pardons 78, Xavier 1st HBCU To Win Nat'l Cheer Title, Aurora DC  The name of the officer who killed a Congolese immigrant has been unofficially circulating since the fatal encounter.  Now it's been publicly acknowledged by Grand Rapid's Police Chief. We'll tell you who he is and show you his face. The first Black man to...

4.25.22 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: P. Moses Charges Dropped, Miss. Voting Lawsuit, Toyota's PAC Money, CBS Discrimination Lawsuit The Black Lives Matter activist unlawfully convicted of illegal voter registration in 2019 will not face another trial. Memphis prosecutors have dropped the charges. P. Moses and her attorney will join us tonight. A lawsuit claiming the new Mississippi voting districts to...

4.22.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Fla. Passes New Congressional Map Dismantling 2 Majority Black Districts & Black Lawmakers sit-in A coalition of civil rights groups, including Black Voters Matter, filed the first lawsuit against Florida's new congressional map, backed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, eliminating two majority-Black districts.  Co-founder of Black Voters Matter, Clif...

4.21.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Fla. Passes New Congressional Map Dismantling 2 Majority Black Districts & Black Lawmakers sit-in Florida Republicans pass a congressional map after a sit-in protest by Black lawmakers.  That new map, backed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, gives the party a significant advantage in November's elections by eliminating two majority-Black districts. &n...

4.20.22 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: GA Online personality accused of Doxing, DOJ investigates Miss. Prison, Mich. Overtaxing, Flikshop An Atlanta social media cook is accused of blasting out personal information of people who questioned or disagreed with him. Putting out someone's personal information for intimidation or harassing purposes is called "Doxing."  In the RMU studio, one woman who wa...

4.19.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Patrick Lyoya Autopsy, Black TN Mayor Honors Confederate Heritage Month, Covid-19 Business Services He felt the cold hard steel against his head.  He heard the gunshot.  He died as soon as the bullet entered his brain. That's what the doctors who performed an independent autopsy on Congolese refugee Patrick Lyoya. The Chicago officer who killed Laquan M...

4.18.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: LA's Cancer Alley, Manson's Takeover Remains, Nashville's Reverse Racism, The White Dress Project The Environmental Protection Agency has launched several civil rights investigations over air pollution in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley."  That's between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, where a quarter of the nation's petrochemical production occurs. We'll talk to the...

4.15.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Calif. Grandma Killed by Cop, DOJ Civil Rights Successes, Rapping Math Teacher, Jackie Robinson Day In California, a 54-year-old black grandmother is shot at more than 30 times by a Stockton police officer, killing her.   The family says that even though she was suspected of backing her car into a cop's car, she was unarmed and never threatened the officer....

4.14.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Patrick Lyoya Shooting Video, Ed Buck Gets 30yrs, A Delta Responds To VA GOP, Joe Madison's New Book The video of Patrick Lyoya's shooting by a Grand Rapids, Michigan police officer was released yesterday.  No word on if the unnamed officer involved will face any charges.  Ben Crump, the Lyoya Family, is here to give us an update. Ed Buck, the white Cal...

4.13.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Patrick Lyoya Shooting Video released, America’s low wage  crisis, White GOP Mad at Deltas, Ziscuit  Grand Rapids, Michigan, police have released the video of the fatal traffic stop shooting of Patrick Lyoya.  Attorney Ben Crump did not lie when he said Patrick was shot execution-style in the back of his head. The man suspected of shooting up...

4.12.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: NY Lt. Gov. Resigns, Whiteness Fast, BLM Leaders Speak, Ethiopia's War,Halo 7 Rum The search continues for the man responsible for this morning's mass shooting on a New York subway. New York's Lieutenant Governor resigns after getting indicted on bribery, honest services wire fraud, and falsifying records charges. A suburban Chicago church has been "fasting from...

4.11.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Mich. Cop Kills Congolese Immigrant, AME Church alleged $90M funds loss, Black Women & Sarcoidosis Eight years ago, the Lyoya family immigrated to the US to escape the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, only to be faced with the violent killing of their son by a Grand Rapids, Michigan police officer.  Patrick's father says the officer shot his...

4.8.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Celebrates Confirmation, Will Smith Oscars Ban, Charter School Funding Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson celebrates her historical confirmation to the Supreme Court at the White House. I was there for her emotional speech thanking her role models and others who helped her along the way. You'll hear what she and others had to say at today's ce...

4.7.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: U.S. Senate confirms 1st black woman Supreme Court Justice, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Bipartisan support leads to a historic 53 to 47 vote confirming the nation's first Black female Supreme Court Justice. We'll be talking to a lot of folks about today's confirmation; representatives, former judges, and civil rights groups witnessing history in the making. ...

4.6.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: No Charges in Amir Lockes Death, Okla. Great-grandmother taunted by cops, African Conflicts, KweliTV police officer is getting away with murdering an innocent black man. No criminal charges will be filed in the Amir Locke shooting. I'll be talking to the family attorney tonight. A 70-year-old black great-grandmother gets taunted and laughed at by Tulsa, Oklahoma,...

4.5.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Mason, TN Going to Court, Banks & Slavery, Obama At The White House, Gaetz v Austin, Melanie Dolls A  majority-Black Tennessee town is fighting back against the state's comptroller's financial takeover. Represented by the NAACP, the town of Mason is headed to court tomorrow after accusing Jason Mumpower of violating the Equal Protection Clause and going b...

4.4.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Peter Spencer's 2nd Autopsy, Senate Cmte. Deadlock SCOTUS Vote, Cameroon Civil War, Pandemic Report  The family attorney of Peter Spencer, the Jamaican immigrant who was killed during a hunting trip with his white co-worker, says the Venango County district attorney got it wrong by not charging the men who killed Peter. Peter's family hired their own forensic...

4.1.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Black Men & Economic Recovery, S.C.& Amputation Rates, Men of Change Exhibit, Color Noir Producer Will Packer is speaking publicly about what happened at the Oscars for the first time. We'll show you parts of that Good Morning America interview with T.J. Holmes. Kansas City civil rights groups have long known their police department had high incidences of...

3.31.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Oscars lying about Will Smith; judge strikes down racist Fla. voter law; Calif. Reparations task force conflicting stories about if Will Smith was asked to leave or was told to stay at the Oscars. The battle for voting rights is continuing. In Florida, a federal judge permanently blocks the state's new voter suppression laws from going into effect. We'll talk to...

3.30.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Black Men & Economic Recovery, S.C.& Amputation Rates, Men of Change Exhibit, Color Noir The economy and black folks. As our economy recovers, black men are still being left behind. According to a recent report by the Center for American Progress, black men continue to experience consistent unemployment gaps and limited economic opportunities. We'll have...

3.29.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Felons voting in NC; UNCF to launch charter schools, Suing BLM Activist, Biden Signs Anti-Lynching Law With the stroke of a pen, President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law, making lynching a federal hate crime.   The United Negro College Fund is getting a financial boost from Mike Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies, to...