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NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: Pres. Obama Blasts Trump On Voter Fraud, Rigged Election Claims, 12 Cops Face Investigation Over The Beating Of 4 Black Men, Ava DuVernay’s Documentary ’13’ Exposes Exposes Connection Between Slavery & Mass Incarceration

President Obama Speaks Out About Voter Fraud And Rigged Claims President Obama in the Rose Garden yesterday, incredulous over Donald Trump’s incendiary charges that the election is rigged while Trump and his running mate Gov. Mike Pence forged ahead with claims of voter fraud and a media conspiracy. Tim Kaine Calls Trump’s ‘Rigged Election’ & […]

NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: Tump Claims Large Scale Voter Going On, Nielsen Report Showcases The Power Of Black Millennials

Roland Martin and the NewsOne Now panel discuss the latest developments on the road to the White House. Melania Trump Says Donald was “egged on” into “boy talk” Trump Continues to Say the Election is Rigged and “Large Scale” Voter Fraud Going On Trump Supporter Threatens Potential Violence against Clinton if she is elected FBI […]

NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: Trump Claims The Election Is ‘Rigged’ Sheriff David Clarke Says Bring Out The ‘Pitchforks & Torches,’ NAACP Resolution On Charter Schools Passed

As more sexual assault accusers come forward and poll numbers collapse, Donald Trump’s claims of a rigged election are getting louder ahead of November eighth. Trump says the system is rigged and in favor of his opponent former Secretary Hillary Clinton, but that claim is getting strong pushback from House Speaker Paul Ryan who says […]

NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: Speaker Ryan Will No Longer Defend Trump, RNC Doubles Down On Trump Support, SCOTUS Justice Says Kaepernick’s Protest ‘Dumb & Disrespectful’

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump continue the mudslinging on the campaign trail after Sunday night’s debate. It looks like Trump’s lewd comments are costing him in the polls. Clinton has an eleven-percent lead in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.But Trump’s troubles don’t end there, as members of the Republican […]

Hurricane Matthew Bears Down On The East Coast, Mike Pence’s Denial Of The Truth, Man Sentence To Death Because Of Race

Hurricane Matthew Bears Down On The East Coast Thousands of people are heeding those warnings and fleeing the southeast coast where Hurricane Matthew is expected to bear down on Florida late tonight. Hurricane warnings are now in effect for almost the entire east coast of Florida. Right now the storm is a category 3 but […]

Roland Martin Show Audio Podcast: VP Debate Recap, The Trump Lies Continue, Clinton Blasts Trump In New Ad, First Lady Michelle Obama Campaigns In NC

In this edition of The Roland Martin Show, Roland Martin recaps the one and only Vice Presidential debate between Mike Pence and Tim Kaine. According to media sources, Pence was victorious. CNN’s polling stated the Governor of Indiana won 48 percent to 42 percent. Listen to portions of Tuesday night’s contentious debate between Pence and Kaine […]

NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: Tim Kaine, Mike Pence Fail To Address Racism In Policing, Pence Claims Trump Never Said The Things He Actually Said

Mike Pence, Tim Kaine Miss Opportunity To Confront Racism & Implicit Bias In Policing Gov. Mike Pence and Sen. Tim Kaine faced off in their one and only Vice Presidential debate on Tuesday night. Oftentimes contentious, their meeting produced heated exchanges between the two vice presidential candidates on a number of issues. But one issue both […]

NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: Trump Offers Tax Reform After Tax Bombshell, Clinton’s Pitch To Black Male Voters, Former Apprentice Contestant Warns Of Trump’s ‘Kardashian’-Styled Leadership

Donald Trump Offers Tax Reform After Getting Busted For Not Paying Taxes How did Donald Trump, the one-time casino mogul lose $916 million in one year? The massive monetary loss assured the businessman turned presidential candidate would not pay taxes on future income for nearly twenty years. In the aftermath of The New York Times […]

NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: Clinton Addresses Police Killings Of Black Men, Trump Avoids Paying Taxes, Teen Faces Trial For 65-Cent Carton Of Milk

Hillary Clinton Addresses Keith Lamont Scott Police Killing, Talks To Black Youth In Charlotte Hillary Clinton spent Sunday in Charlotte, where she addressed the frustration and pain in that community after the police shooting death of an African-American man and subsequent unrest two weeks ago. The Democratic presidential nominee visited a black church, where she […]

NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: A Conversation With Harry Belafonte

Actor and activist Harry Belafonte has been on the front lines in the fight for social justice for decades, and has battled alongside the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela. Today, he is inspiring a new generation of activists. Roland Martin, host of NewsOne Now, recently sat down with Belafonte and criminal justice […]