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THIS WEEK On Washington Watch: Big Banks Too Big To Jail; Inequality Within The LGBT Community; Charges In The Hazing Death Of Robert Champion; Zimmerman Waives His Right To Stand Your Ground Hearing

RACIAL INEQUALITY IN THE LGBT EQUALITY MOVEMENT, HAZING DEATH OF ROBERT CHAMPION AND BANKERS TOO BIG TO JAIL ARE AMONG THE TOPICS ON MARCH 10 WASHINGTON WATCH WITH ROLAND MARTIN Topics to include: the hazing death of Robert Champion; inequality within the LGBT community; prosecuting big banks and George Zimmerman waives his right to ‘Stand [...]

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien On Her Entrepreneurial TV Future

Source: Diane Brady /  Bloomberg I never really hesitated about going to Starting Point[which premiered on Jan. 2, 2012]. I thought there was an opportunity to get beyond the platitudes of “Yes, Medicare! No, Medicare!” and actually look at the Congressional Budget Office report. When I left American Morning in 2007, I’d focused on doing documentaries. But I thought Starting Point was [...]

The Second Worst Thing: The Racially Offensive Mischaracterization Of The Housing Bubble

by Dedrick Muhammad Economic Department of the NAACP Last week, Bloomberg Businessweek magazine released its latest issue to much-deserved uproar and outrage. On its cover, the magazine featured Jim Crow-esque caricatures that portrayed people of color as money hungry and implicitly suggested that they will cause a future housing bubble. Unfortunately, this offensive image is [...]

LISTEN: Roland Martin Talks With Journalist George Curry About Big Bank’s Power; Being Too Big To Fail

Roland Martin talks with journalist George Curry about big banks and how it is hard for them to fail.

Unemployment Rate Falls To Lowest Level Since 2008; 236,000 Jobs Added In February

Source: Annalyn Kurtz / CNN Money U.S. employers ramped up their hiring in February, helping the unemployment rate to fall to its lowest level since December 2008. The U.S. economy added 236,000 jobs in February, according to a Labor Department report released Friday. That’s much stronger growth than in January, when employers hired a revised 119,000 workers. [...]

Joy Behar To Leave ‘The View’

Source: ABC News Joy Behar, one of the original cast members of “The View,” is leaving at the end of the season after 16 1/2 years. “You can’t stay forever on a show,” Behar told “Good Morning America.”  “I am graciously exiting stage left.” “I’ve put in 16 1/2 years and felt the time was right. I [...]

Police Chief Uses Lie-Detector To Keep Racists Off Force

Source:  Sheila Burke / AP / ABC News A police chief hired to rebuild a tiny Tennessee department dismantled by scandal is using a lie-detector test to keep racists off his force. Coopertown Police Chief Shane Sullivan took over the department in November, becoming the 11th chief in as many years. He was hired on the [...]

U.N. Approves New Sanctions Against North Korea (VIDEO)

The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, a move that sparked a furious Pyongyang to threaten a nuclear strike against the United States. (March 7)

Snoop: We Are Guilty Of Promoting Guns (VIDEO)

Snoop Lion tells CNN’s Piers Morgan Americans are guilty of promoting the gun as a highly touted thing.

Report: 80 Chicago Public Schools Could Shut Down (VIDEO)

Source: Tonya Francisco / WGN-TV A new report determined that Chicago Public Schools can safely close or overhaul as many as 80 schools this year. The findings came from a panel of eight commissioners hand-picked by schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett. The report does not name specific schools that should be closed or consolidated.  It is [...]