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3.28.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Will Smith's Slap, Fla. Hotel Worker Attacked, Arrested & Fired, BNC's Downfall, Oral Health It's the day after the slap seen and heard by millions. The academy has launched a formal review of the incident. We have two professionals to break down the Will Smith - Chris Rock Oscar drama that shocked everyone around the world. Trenton, New Jersey police departm...

3.24.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Booker’s speech lauding Brown Jackson, NJ Cops Paralyzed Black Man, Shopping While Black The historical confirmation of the 116th Supreme Court Justice nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, has ended. Jackson spent nearly 22 hours being grilled by Senate Judiciary Committee members. Today's testimony was from outside witnesses testifying about Jackson. We'll have...

3.23.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Day 3 SCOTUS Confirmation Hearing, NJ Cops Paralyzed Black Man, HU Avoids Strike, Flikshop We're LIVE from Brooklyn, New York, at 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, where Spike Lee is debuting the documentary on Colin Kaepernick. We'll have more on that later in the show. Today, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is back in the hot seat answering questions and accusations f...

3.22.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered:  Day 2 SCOTUS Confirmation Hearing, Texas family suing HPD, California's Reparations, Soul Snacks It's day two of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Judge Jackson is grilled by Senators asking questions about her legal philosophy, religion, abortion, and critical race theory. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Grahams storms out of...

3.21.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Confirmation Hearings, Explaining Paternity Fraud, Cops Gone Crazy She's on track to become the 116th Supreme Court Justice. The confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson started today. I spoke to Senator Amy Klobuchar, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and we have a special panel to talk about today's hearing. A...

3.18.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Chicago Cop Accused of lying, Pam Moses Speaks, House passes CROWN Act, HBCU Transformation Project A man black man spent 33 years in prison for double murder. Evidence that exonerated Robert Smith proves the cop who went on to serve as Chicago's police superintendent lied to jurors during his trial about taking his confession in 1987. Investigative Reporter Dan...

3.17.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: TN Black Town Ultimatum; Kaepernick's Autopsy Initiative; LA Senate Candidate Lights Up Campaign Tennessee's Comptroller is giving a majority-black town an ultimatum. Dissolve the town's 153-year-old charter, or the state will take over. The town of Mason already declined to merge into Tipton County Government. The "take over" is happening as Ford plans to build...

3.16.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: No Charges in Peter Spencer Murder, Black Town White Takeover, HU Non-tenured Faculty Protest, BLAPP On a hunting trip with four white men, the only black man ends up dead. No one will be charged with killing Jamaican immigrant Peter Spencer. The district attorney says the unidentified man who shot Spencer nine times was justified, calling the shooting self-defen...

3.15.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: No Charges In Jamaican Immigrant's Death, FL Police Chief Fired for Hiring Blacks No charges will be filed for the death of a Jamaican immigrant killed while hunting with his white co-workers in Pennsylvania. The Venango County District Attorney says Peter Spencer's killing was justified due to self-defense under Pennsylvania's Stand Your Ground law. After about...

3.14.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: 2020 Census Undercount; Explaining Copyright Laws, HBCU funding, Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month The U.S. Census Bureau admits the 2020 Census overcounted and undercounted various demographic groups. We'll be breaking those numbers with the Senior Director of Census and Data Equity fromThe Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. I will once again break...

3.10.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: La. Juvenile Facility investigated, Jussie Smollett Sentenced, Arbery Killers Appeal Fed Conviction Jussie Smollett scheduled to be sentenced for lying to police in hate crime hoax ProPublica and other media outlets investigated what's being called Louisiana's Harshest Juvenile Lockup facility. The Acadiana Center for Youth at St. Martinville is a high-security j...

3.9.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Police Brutality Costs, VP in Poland, Lays v. Rap Snacks, Bill Pay w/o Penalty, Don't Say Gay Bill Between 2010 and 2020, billions have been spent paying out police misconduct claims. We'll break those numbers down. The Pennsylvania officer who shot a 12-year-old in the back is getting fired for excessive force. Florida passes the controversial "Don't Say Gay" Bil...

3.8.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Lack of fed advertising with minority media, Remembering Bloody Sunday, Afro Flow Yoga If you've been to the gas station, you've noticed the hike in prices. As President Joe Bidens bans Russian oil, prices may even get higher. We'll take a look at what the ban will mean for us. Plus, Biden is pushing to expand health care to military personnel exposed to environme...

3.7.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Lack of fed advertising with minority media, Remembering Bloody Sunday, Afro Flow Yoga A recent Government Accountability Office study in 2016 found over five years, the federal government spent more than $5 billion on advertising. But, Black-owned businesses received only $51 million, that's about 1.02-percent. Congressman Hank Johnson calls out the Biden adminis...

3.4.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Black Women gain jobs, Dan Abrams Gets Blasted, Year of The Return Premiere February was a good month as over 650-thousand jobs were added, with over 50-percent of those jobs going to black women. We'll have an economist here to break those numbers down. Last night, I told ya'll I would be on Dan Abrams' show, NewsNation, where we would be talking about policing i...

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3.2.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Breaking down Biden’s SOTU speech; CROWN Act fails; Tim Reid launches streaming service Many black folks are not too happy hearing President Biden's first State of the Union address. He barely mentioned voting legislation and said we should "fund the police." We'll examine what he said and didn't say. Republicans block the bill banning racist hair discrimination....

3.1.2022 #TheCulture w/ #Farajii: Women's history month; State of the Union; What is real patriotism? Frederick Douglass on the dollar? + Trends, posts, and doing the most Tonight, President Joe Biden will be giving his first State of the Union address. We will have a preview of what Biden's expected to discuss during his speech and the things he may omit. The House passed the Emmett Till Antilync...

2.28.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Ukrainian Invasion Continues; MD Family Son's Out of Ukraine; Black Women Struggles, Black Skincare Explosions continue in Ukrainian cities as Ukrainian officials desperately seek a cease-fire. Russia is hit with sanctions. Switzerland has joined other countries condemning the attacks, and Russia is now banned from the World Cup. Tonight, we are talking to expert...

2.25.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Biden Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson, Man Thought He was a Citizen Gets Deported, FL Family Update Flanked by the first black woman Vice President and the first black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden upholds his campaign promise. He announced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his pick to fill the vacancy left by the retiring Judge Stephen B...

2.24.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Russia & Ukraine, RMU Exclusive: FL Father protecting family charged w/attempted murder, Texas' CRT A federal jury finds the three ex-officers connected to the killing of George Floyd guilty on all counts of violating Floyd's civil rights during his fatal 2020 arrest. Russia invades Ukraine, killing and injuring hundreds. Ukraine has lost control of the Chern...

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2.22.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Arbery Murderers Guilty - Again, Black Farmers & Foreclosure Notices, Black Women & Fitness Apparel   The three white men in Georgia convicted of killing black jogger Ahmaud Arbery have been convicted on federal hate crime charges.   A Minnesota federal jury is deciding if three officers violated George Floyd's civil rights as Derek Chauvin pinned Floyd d...

2.21.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: MD Man Sues Police for Paralysing him, Arbery Hate Trial Deliberations, Eradicating Breast Cancer  A black man in Maryland is left paralyzed after encountering the Prince George's County Police department. His lawyer is here to tell us about the case. A black Florida teen is wrongly arrested for making threats to her school. A bully created a fake profile. It too...

2.18.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Liberia's 200th, Kimberly Potter gets 2 years; Wright family outraged, Teaching Black Brilliance 24 months, 16 months in prison, and 8 months on supervised release. That's the sentence Kimberly Potter received for killing an unarmed black man, Daunte Wright. We'll let you hear Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu's reasoning behind the ruling and how Daunte's family...