#RolandMartinUnfiltered

9.4.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: 7th Anniversary of #RolandMartinUnfiltered, 4 Years of Black Star Network, Ivey on Guard & Epstein It's Thursday, September 4, 2025. Do you know what day it is? It's our anniversary! We are celebrating seven years of Roland Martin Unfiltered and four years of the Black Star Network. We have a packed house in the studio tonight for this special occasion. Here's...

9.3.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump Eyes National Guard For Chicago, Epstein Files Chaos, Baptist Power Play, Clarke vs. Mills The convict-in-chief is considering whether to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago or a city with a governor who, he says, would welcome them, like New Orleans. Jeffrey Epstein survivors and several lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill, demanding the full release of...

9.2.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump’s Guard Move Ruled Illegal, Jeffries Slams Gerrymandering, Entrepreneurship, Whiff & Nibble A federal judge says, Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in California broke the law, violating a 19th-century ban on using the military for domestic policing.... Retired Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré will weigh in on what this means to Trump's t...

8.29.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Katrina 20 Years Later, Trump Nobel Prize Push, Black Ohioans Face Deep Inequities Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, we examine the lessons learned, the resilience of New Orleans' communities, and the road still ahead. Community leaders and educators will be here to share with us the changes that have helped keep the city thriving.  The delusions from 16...

8.28.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Louisiana Voting Rights SCOTUS Battle, Trump Firing Spree, U.S. Open Racism, Emmett Till 70th Louisiana is taking its fight over voting rights straight to the U.S. Supreme Court. The state seeks to gut a key provision of the Voting Rights Act by prohibiting the use of race in redistricting. Activist Gary Chambers will be here to discuss what's really at stake for...

8.27.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Maxine Waters Shreds Trump Power Grabs, Chicago Pushback, GA Election Denier Fight California Congresswoman Maxine Waters is here to talk about what that twice-impeached, criminally convicted felon-in-chief, Donald "The Con" Trump, has been up to: from "firing"  Federal Reserve Governor, Lisa Cook, to deploying the National Guard to D.C., to threatening othe...

8.26.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump Targets Fed Gov Lisa Cook, #47 Lies Backfire, Nat’l Guard Threats, JohnTom's BBQ Trump's newest target is Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, the first Black woman ever to hold that seat.  Morgan Harper from the American Economic Liberties Project and strategist Rhonda Foxx will join us to break down why he's set his sights on Cook.  Trump's...

8.22.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Black Voters Matter Relaunches ‘We Fight Back’; SCOTUS OKs $780M DEI Cuts; Rep. Corey Paris Threats Black Voters Matter is expanding its mission. Beyond protecting Black voting rights, the organization is focusing on uplifting Black communities with the relaunch of its We Fight Back campaign. We'll speak with the co-founders about their renewed strate...

8.19.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Texas Rep. Nicole Collier Sleeps on House Floor; Agents Flood D.C.; Black Breast ACancer Trial Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier refuses to back down, she's even sleeping on the House floor--- to fight Republican power plays and she's joining us live. More federal officers are flooding Washington, D.C., but with the DOJ investigating claims that low crime numbers w...

8.18.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: TX Dems Back for Maps Fight; D.C. Agent Surge; Spike Lee Exclusive & Black Breast Cancer Texas Democrats are back at the state Capitol after weeks of breaking quorum. What's next in the high-stakes battle over redistricting... State Reps Aichea Davis and Jolanda Jones join us live to discuss the Democrats' plans. In Washington, D.C., hundreds of federal agent...

8.15.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered:D.C. Sues Trump Over Police Takeover; Obama & Moore vs. #47; Gov. Newsom TX Maps Plan Washington, D.C. is suing the Trump administration over an unprecedented overreach, challenging the federal takeover of the city's police as officials fight to end Trump's control after 30 days. Lauren Burke joins us to report from the ground on the vulnerable communities bei...

8.14.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Texas Redistricting Battle Rages; Gov. Newsom's 'Election Rigging' Measure; Trump Pushes PragerU In Texas, the redistricting battle continues. Top state Republicans have announced they'll adjourn the current special legislative session early this Friday--only to immediately gavel in a brand new session that same day. We'll speak with several Texas state represent...

8.13.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Texas Dems Set to Return; Gen. Lee High Name Restored; Sonya Massey Law; Trump Extends DC Crackdown Texas Democrats say they're set to return to the state after blocking a controversial redistricting vote. We'll speak with one of the state representatives who fled Texas to protest the legislation. Also in Texas, the Midland Independent School District's board of...

8.11.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump Seizes D.C. Police, 800 Guard Deployed; TX Dems Block Quorum; VA Axes 400K Union Contracts Donald Trump has done something no president has ever done before.... Putting D.C.'s police force under federal control and sending in 800 National Guard troops. The mayor calls Trump's actions "unsettling and unprecedented." We'll talk with Markus Batchelor from Peop...

8.8.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: TX Dems Break Quorum, Abbott Threats; AL Map Violates VRA; DOJ Probes Letitia James Texas Democrats are standing firm, breaking quorum despite threats from Governor Abbott and the GOP. We'll hear live from Jon Rosenthal, Texas House Vice Chair of the Redistricting Select Committee, who's currently in Illinois with the latest on this high stakes showdown. Plus, a f...

8.7.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Abbott: State & FBI Track TX Dems; Record-High Tariffs Hit; Hegseth’s $10M for Confederate Monuments Texas Governor Greg Abbott says the state and possibly even the FBI is tracking down Democratic lawmakers who fled to stop the GOP's redistricting plan. We'll talk to two of those lawmakers, State Reps Christian Manuel and Lauren Ashley Simmons, about wha...

8.6.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Bomb Threat at TX Dem Hotel, Amb. Young on Voting Rights, Brain Eating Amoeba Death, July Jobs Slump Texas Democrats fighting back against GOP redistricting plans just got hit with a bomb threat at their hotel in Illinois. We've got Representatives Bowers and Reynolds joining us to break it all down and trust, they're not backing down. Also 60 years since the Voti...

8.4.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Abbott Threatens to Prosecute Absent Dems, Jay Jones’ AG Run, Jobs Report Fallout & Gut Health Tips Texas Governor Greg Abbott is threatening to track down and prosecute Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block a Republican redistricting vote. We've got Texas State Representative Charlene Johnson and Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Mat...

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7.31.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered:Detroit Early Voting, TX Redistricting showdown, Trumpflation, Black Youth Mental Health Crisis Early voting is underway in Detroit's high-stakes mayoral primary. Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield is here to explain why she should be the city's next leader. In Texas, tensions are boiling over as Republicans push to redraw congressional maps that could...

7.30.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Kamala Harris not running for Gov, Trump Taps Proud Boy Joe Kent, Bove Confirmed, Medicaid turns 60 After serious thought, former Vice President Kamala Harris decides not to run for governor of California. The twice-impeached, criminally convicted felon-in-chief, Donald "The Con" Trump, wants Proud Boy Joe Kent to be the next director of the National Counterterro...

7.29.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered:Justin Justin Jones barred from Tesla event, Trump Climate Rollback, SNAP Data lawsuit, Puzzle Biz. Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones was barred from attending an event announcing a new state-sanctioned partnership with Tesla. He'll explain what happened.  The Trump administration is proposing to revoke a key 2009 scientific finding that human-cause...

HIV isn’t over — it’s just been ignored. Black women account for a disproportionate number of new cases, the South is ground zero, and the stigma is still killing us. Roland Martin, Dr. Toyin Nwafor, Raheem DeVaughn, and frontline organizers break the silence on a public health crisis America refuses to face. In response to this staggering trend, Gilead Sciences has launched the...

7.24.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: TX Dems vs GOP Redistricting, Maxwell DOJ Talk, Oak Bluffs Legacy, Birthright Ruling & Karen Chaos Texas Democrats are unlikely to have the votes to stop the GOP-led redistricting effort, which is up for debate tomorrow.  Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell sat down with Trump's DOJ to discuss what she knows about her former boyfriend, Jeffrey Eps...

7.23.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Creek Freedmen Win Tribal Citizenship, HIV Crisis Solutions, Obama Claps Back & Big Tide Summit A major legal victory... Creek Freedmen are now officially tribal citizens. Civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons will explain what ruling means for Black Native identity and justice. Black women and Black trans women are still facing the highest HIV rates...