By Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com There is no reason Marissa Alexander should spend the next 20 years in prison. If you are the most hardened law-and-order person in the world, even you should have some compassion for Alexander and the ridiculous Florida law known as 10-20-Life. The law requires that anyone convicted of an [...]
Source: Kenneth T. Whalum Jr. / USA Today In a nation where more than 60% of respondents support capital punishment, the shrill outcry over corporal punishment in our public schools is hypocritical to the point of being hysterical. Those who object to corporal punishment usually wax eloquently liberal in their arguments that corporal punishment is “violence that begets [...]
Source: The Mo’ Kelly Report In this 24-hour news cycle, ostensibly we should be inundated with more news, information and substantive analysis, which would provide a solid foundation to measure the performance of politicians. Instead, we seem to get bogged down in soundbite minutia, to the point we miss the obvious. For example, when President [...]
By Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com It’s always funny to get tweets and emails from followers of radio entertainer Rush Limbaugh’s. None of them ever actually thinks of checking the facts out before beginning an ignorant, vile and rambling rant. I suppose that’s to be expected, because all they are doing is following their feckless [...]
Source: Allison Samuels / The Daily Beast In her final flight back home, singer Whitney Houston should have been surrounded by those who truly loved and cared for her. A few aboard the private plane that carried her body had been there for Houston through thick and thin. Her manager and sister-in-law, Pat Houston, was [...]
By Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com When Americans salute the nation’s military at ball games in airports and in churches nationwide, we do so with a sense of pride for those who are putting their lives on the lines for the tremendous freedoms we enjoy. One of those that we cherish the most is the [...]
Source: Sheila C. Johnson / The Huffington Post In 1958, winger Willie O’Ree became the first African American athlete to play in the NHL. Which team was responsible for breaking the color barrier? The Boston Bruins. The second and third black players in the NHL were Mike Marson and Bill Riley, both signed by the [...]
By Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com Acura found itself in a bit of hot water this week when it was revealed that a casting agency in Los Angeles only desired light-skinned African-American actors for the company’s Super Bowl commercial, featuring Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld. The company apologized, but that hasn’t stopped a lot of [...]
By Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com The shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and its galvanizing effect on African-Americans has been compared to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till. I have resisted this comparison because it was what took place after Till’s death — the Montgomery bus boycott — that gave the death of the [...]
By Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com Listen to any politician today, whether it’s President Barack Obama or GOP challengers Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, and he will be quick to extol the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Yet quoting King is one thing; taking up the mantle of King’s work is another. [...]
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