Perspective
by Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com There are some sports figures who, no matter who else is playing, make you simply want to turn on the television to see what kind of excitement they will bring to the game. Barry Sanders. Deion Sanders. Michael Jordan. Reggie Jackson. Wayne Gretzky. Pele. They make up some of [...]
by Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com If you took a moment during the heat of the presidential race to drop by the Mitt Romney campaign office, you would have been shocked by the number of white people working to get him elected. About the only color you would have seen were the red and white [...]
by Gary L. Flowers Executive Director & CEO Black Leadership Forum, Inc. Now that the 18-month, nearly 2 billion dollar, 2012 election for president of the United States of America is over the political question is settled as President Obama is set to begin his second term in January 2013. However, the question of policy [...]
By Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com As political pros, journalists and pundits pick over exit polls to study how and why President Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney for the presidency, a lot of the attention has been showered on the Latino turnout, gender gap and late breaking voters for the president. The African American turnout [...]
Source: Ebony Magazine Election Day has finally arrived and CNN contributor and TV One host Roland S. Martin has a strong message to encourage Americans to get out and vote today. In an interview with EBONY.com, Martin explains his ‘Vote or Shut the Hell Up’ campaign. EBONY: You’re hitting voter apathy hard with your new campaign to get [...]
By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. The Guardian Why do I think it is so vital that President Barack Obama win again this week, for America and for the world? Let’s remember President Obama inherited a very deep hole, a hole most Americans did not imagine existed. When he came in, we had lost four million jobs [...]
By Sil Lai Abrams EBONY.COM Relationship Expert About a week ago, a video surfaced on WorldStarHipHop.com that showed a largely unknown Chicago rapper named “Lil’ Reese” unleash a barrage of blows on a young woman who took exception with he and a group of friends coming into her home. That the young Def Jam-signee use of [...]
By Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com When was the last time you heard some say that it is important to hire a qualified white person for a job? No, seriously, I really want you to think about the question. Whenever there is a discussion about diversity, inclusion or affirmative action, we always hear folks say, [...]
By Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com To all of my fellow evangelicals on the religious right, please, stop your fake proselytizing and trumpeting of biblical values if all you’re going to do is run roughshod over your biblical convictions in order for your partisan views to take center stage. When Mitt Romney was running for [...]
By Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com It says a lot about our ridiculous state of politics when we say that voters desire an American president who isn’t exceptional, elite, smart, extraordinary and the best of the best. Instead, we get these silly narratives that say we desire a president who is regular, ordinary and a [...]