This week’s Washington Watch newsmaker is one of the Republican Party’s most outspoken fiscal and social conservatives. Cong. Steve King has represented Iowa’s Fifth Congressional District since 2003, so it’s safe to say he knows his way around Washington.
Talk to any medical professional — not politician; any medical professional, and they will tell you the greatest danger to escalating healthcare costs is tied directly to obesity — not cancer, not AIDS, not breast cancer, not anything else but obesity. And for political leaders to sit here and fall for the lobbying dollars of […]
One person’s ignorance is on display, another may be running out of money, one is suddenly popular, and another still gets no love. Is this “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”? No, it’s the Republican presidential campaign. Roland Martin and the Washington Watch roundtable discuss Herman Cain’s Libya flub and President Obama saying that Americans have […]
Roland Martin and the Washington Watch roundtable discuss Newt Gingrich’s sudden rise in the polls and his $1.6 million paycheck from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Plus the Penn State Child Sexual Abuse Scandal.
The unveiling of “The Black List” photo exhibit at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery here in D.C. was an event attended by many of the celebrities represented in the photographs. Roland Martin had the opportunity to talk with some of them about what it meant to see themselves in black and white.
Washington Watch intends to continue to shine a bright light on efforts by Republican-controlled states to suppress voting rights — rights won with blood, sweat and tears by the heroes and sheroes of the Civil Rights Movement. In this week’s edition of Washington Watch, we’re joined by a congresswoman who is beating the drum in […]
It was amazing this week to listen to conservatives like Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity and Brent Bozell make these crazy comments comparing the criticism of Herman Cain and sex harassment allegations to lynching. What was more offensive was to listen to them to say that, oh, somehow, here are attacks on Black conservatives solely […]
For the past several weeks, Washington Watch has been focused on GOP voter suppression initiatives taking place all across this country. Republicans claim it’s about protecting the right to vote.
Roland Martin talks with Dr. Maya Rockeymoore and Dr. Julie Ajinka about how the Debt Super Committee’s decisions to cut $1.5 trillion dollars will impact African-Americans.
Roland Martin explains political leaders are trying to score points at the expense of the American people by blocking parts of the American Jobs Act.
Labor Sec. Hilda Solis joined Roland Martin on the set of Washington Watch to discuss the new jobs numbers, what the White House is doing to get Americans back to work and the American Jobs Act.
It has been amazing listening to various critics of the Occupy Wall Street protests suggest that somehow what they’re doing is un-American. I’m the same person who said that the Tea Party had an absolute right to do what they were actually doing. In fact, I also said it was a welcome sight to see […]
