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Got A Charge For $9.84 On Your Credit Card? Beware

Source: Kathy Kristof / CBS News Wondering if your credit card number could be in the hands of a crook? Look for a charge for $9.84. The Better Business Bureau issued a fraud alert last week about a raft of consumer complaints all reporting the same niggling charge. The business levying this fee may purport to [...]

‘This Is Stupid’: Roland Martin Defends Principal Suspended For Using The N-Word

Source: Tommy Christopher / Mediaite A school principal in Washington State was suspended last week for allegedly using the n-word to explain the epithet to a group of students. Poulsbo Elementary School Principal Claudia Alves was apparently trying to teach the children the difference between the n-word and the word “negro,” and on Monday morning’s NewsOne Now, host Roland [...]

Ex-Marlboro Man Dies From Smoking-Related Disease

Source: AP / USA Today LOS ANGELES  — Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. He was 72. Lawson died Jan. 10 at his home in San Luis Obispo of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, his wife, Susan Lawson said [...]

‘Madden’ Simulation Predicts Broncos Will Win Super Bowl

Source: Brett Molina / USA Today If a video game simulation of Super Bowl XLVIII is correct, “The 12th Man” will have a disappointing Sunday. Electronic Arts ran its annual simulation of the Super Bowl through football video game Madden NFL 25, and it has the Denver Broncos topping the Seattle Seahawks 31-28. According to the simulation, the [...]

King’s Dream And Legacy Still Challenge Us

Source: Leonard Pitts Jr. / HonoluluAdvertiser.com And so Dream season rolls round again. That’s Dream, of course, as in “I Have A …” We celebrate Martin Luther King Day today, which means schoolchildren dutifully reciting the great 1963 oration, television news dutifully replaying the grainy black-and-white footage — and many people dutifully missing the point. At [...]

ROLAND S. MARTIN: We Need MLK’s Revolutionary Spirit

by Roland S. Martin Host and Managing Editor of TV One’s NewsOne Now Don’t be fooled by the soft, sanitized, and safe version of Dr. King. We must remember the truly powerful figure that he was, and in many cases, a radical force for change.   When Nelson Mandela died 46 days ago at the [...]

Martin Luther King’s Nobel Speech Is An Often Ignored Masterpiece

Source: Malcolm Jones / The Daily Beast When Martin Luther King accepted his Nobel Prize, he delivered a speech that has been unfairly ignored because his delivery was so muted. Read 50 years later, it is electrifying.   Martin Luther King’s gifts were manifest. He was an inspired leader, a galvanizing orator, and a brilliant polemicist and prose [...]

MLK’s 1964 Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

Martin Luther King Jr. held his acceptance speech in the auditorium of the University of Oslo on 10 December 1964.

ROLAND S. MARTIN: King Was Bigger Than His Dream Speech (AUDIO)

Roland Martin speaks during an event honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the University of Texas as Arlington. Roland explains that Dr. King was bigger than his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech.

ROLAND S. MARTIN: Wake The Hell Up (AUDIO)

Roland Martin encourages individuals to ‘Wake The Hell Up’ and launch a movement to impact change in America during an MLK speech in St. Louis.