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Roland Martin appears on AC360 with Michaela Angela Davis and host Anderson Cooper to discuss Essence Magazine recently hiring a white fashion director.
WATCH: Essence’s controversial new hire.
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Roland Martin talks with Bob Johnson co-founder of BET about the increasing wealth gap between African Americans and Whites. Recently, Johnson addressed this issue with members of the Congressional Black Caucus calling it a wealth gap tsunami that is threatening African-American Families.
According to a recent report from the Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP) at Brandeis University, the wealth gap between African-American families and White families has quadrupled over the course
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By Roland S. Martin
There is no issue that is more volatile, passionate, confusing, perplexing and complex than the reality of race in America.
Whether we are discussing the motives of the Tea Party, the legal ramifications of the new Arizona immigration law, the impact of the Supreme Court deciding a reverse discrimination case involving firefighters, or the speech of a Department of Agriculture official at a NAACP convention, it is an issue that permeates so many
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Roland Martin appears in the CNN News Room with host Kyra Phillips, and American Morning co-host John Roberts. Martin, Phillips and Roberts discuss USDA official, Shirley Sherrod’s resignation, the NAACP’s statement and the video snippet that caused this controversy.
WATCH: Video Snippet Cost USDA Official, Shirley Sherrod Her Job
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Tea Party Spokesman Mark Williams talks about his controversial comments that mocked the NAACP.
WATCH: Did Tea Party spokesman mock NAACP?
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Roland Martin appears on Reliable Sources with host Howard Kurtz and Jim Geraghty to discuss Fox News’ extensive coverage of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case.
WATCH: Black Panther Case Sparks Media Uproar, Especially at Fox News
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While Glenn Beck continues to pathetically assert that he is a modern-day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his listeners and viewers are the rightful heirs to the civil rights movement he spearheaded, it may catch some by surprise that tea party leaders claim their movement is about advancing the civil rights of Americans.
During a debate Wednesday night on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, tea party spokesman Mark Williams — who moonlights as
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Roland Martin appears on CNN with Campbell Brown and Ed Rollins to discuss the battle between the NAACP and the Tea Party. The NAACP recently passed a resolution that condemns certain elements of the Tea Party as racist.
Roland says the NAACP and those that oppose the Tea Party should beat them at polls. “If you don’t like them coming out and protesting, you counter that and beat them at the ballot box”.
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Roland Martin traveled to Plaquemines Parish for this week’s edition of “Washington Watch”.
The people of the Gulf Coast are very frustrated and are not satisfied with the how long it is taking to stop the BP oil spill. No one knows what the long-term effects of the oil spill will be economically, socially, emotionally or what will happen to the environment. At the end of the day something has to be
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Roland Martin appears on CNN with Campbell Brown to detail the plight of African-American oystermen and fishermen in Plaquemines Parish. They are not able to make a living on the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and are being shut out of clean up contracts.
BP has brought in outsiders to aid in the clean up efforts, which has ultimately forced local fishermen and oystermen completely out of work. Roland explains what these
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