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Roland Martin Show Audio Podcast: San Fran’s Top Cop Ousted After Unarmed Black Woman Is Killed, HBCUs Under Attack In NC

In this edition of The Roland Martin Show, Michael Imhotep founder of The African History Network sits in for Roland martin. Today’s topics include: San Francisco police chief has resigned after an officer shoots and kills an unarmed Black woman Republicans in North Carolina proposed a bill which could cause several HBCUs to close Dr. Greg […]

Roland Martin Show Audio Podcast: Black Gods Of The Asphalt, Moral Mondays, Roots & The History of African Americans in America

In this edition of The Roland Martin Show we talk with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop and Street Basketball about the spiritual connection between so many African American men and the game of hoops. From Amazon.com of the Black Gods of the Asphalt: J-Rod moves like a small […]

NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: DEM Civil War, Congress Votes Against The Confederate Flag, NAACP Sues Over Flint Water Crisis, The Undefeated Launches

Are We On The Brink Of A Democratic “Civil War?” As Donald Trump calls on the GOP to unite, the Democrats appear to be at odds more than ever. Former Secretary Hillary Clinton is likely to be the Democratic party’s nominee, but Senator Bernie Sanders is still winning states and now accusing the party of treating […]

NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: NC Bill SB873 Could Close Several HBCUs, Activists To Go After Ex-Cop Dante Servin’s Pension & More

North Carolina Bill Could Force Several HBCUs To Close Sound the alarm — Historically Black Colleges and Universities are under attack in North Carolina. The North Carolina State Senate has introduced a bill that could bankrupt five of the state’s universities. The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Western Carolina University, Elizabeth City StateUniversity, Winston-Salem State […]

Roland Martin Show Audio Podcast: Ex-Cop Dante Servin Resigns & Keeps Pension, NC Bill SB873 Could End HBCUs + Are African-Americans Locked Out?

In this edition of The Roland Martin Show we discuss the Rekia Boyd case where off-duty cop Dante Servin shot and killed Boyd after an argument. In 2012, Boyd and a group of people were hanging out at a park.  Servin, who was off-duty at the time, began arguing with the group about the noise. He […]

NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: GAO School Segregation Report “Confirms” What We Known, $7 Million Lawsuit Filed In Disturbing Police Rape Case

GAO Report On Segregation In America’s Schools “Confirms Exactly What We’ve Known” It’s been 62 years since the US Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case Brown versus the Board of Education decision that school segregation was unconstitutional. Yesterday, on the anniversary of the Brown decision, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on K-12 […]

Historian Lonnie Bunch Talks Opening Of National Museum of African American History And Culture

Roland Martin talks to author and historian Lonnie Bunch about the opening of the opening of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. “My biggest fear was, ‘could we find the great stuff of history?’. We found things from a sunken slave ship. Families have brought out photographs. We actually have Nat Turner’s Bible. People […]

Roland Martin Show Audio Podcast: Breaking Mental Shackles, Has BLM Taken The Civil Rights Movement Baton, Why Poor Whites Support Trump

In this edition of The Best Of The Roland Martin Show Audio Podcast listen to Roland Martin break down what it means to be mentally free and free from the mental shackles that try to bind us. Top pollster, Cornell Belcher’s new survey questions is the Black Lives Matter Movement has taken the baton from the […]

NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: Rep. Chaka Fattah’s Federal Corruption Trial Begins, Court Orders Cleveland, MS Schools To Desegregate

Rep. Chaka Fattah’s Trial: Are Ex-Aides To Blame For Federal Corruption? The corruption trial for U.S. Representative Chaka Fattah has begun in Philadelphia. The congressman’s lawyers blame Fattah’s former political consultants for for the financial crimes he is being accursed of commuting. An indictment alleges the veteran Pennsylvania Democrat, used an illegal one million dollar loan for his failed […]

NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: Teen Files Suit After Brutal Assault By Cop, Search Continues For Missing College Student, Nayla Kidd

Washington Teen Files Suit After Brutal Police Assault Seventeen-year-old Monique Tillman was brutally beaten, tased, and choked during a traumatic encounter with an off-duty police officer outside a mall in Tacoma, Washington. The violent incident took place two years ago, when Tillman was just 15 years old. She claimed Officer Jared Williams attempted to hit her and her brother as […]