NewsOne Top 5: #BankingWhileBlack Teen “Feared For His Life,” Ted Cruz Believes #BlackLivesMatter Celebrates Cop Killing
Posted October 16, 2015
Roland S. Martin is a nationally award-winning and multifaceted journalist. A nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate, Mr. Martin is the author of Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith, and Speak, Brother! A Black Man’s View of America, and “The First: President Barack Obama’s Road to the White House as originally reported by Roland S. Martin.” Mr. Martin is a commentator for TV One Cable Network and host and managing editor of “Washington Watch with Roland Martin,” a one-hour Sunday morning news show. He is also a CNN Analyst, appearing on a variety of the network’s shows. In October 2008, he joined the Tom Joyner Morning Show as senior analyst.
NewsOne’s Top 5 gives you a quick rundown of the viral stories we’re talking about today.
- “I Feared For My Life:” Teen Tackled By D.C. Police Speaks Out, May File Civil Rights Lawsuit
- Alabama Man Shuts Down Two Cops Who Stopped Him For “Jogging While Black”
- Ted Cruz Thinks The Black Lives Matter Movement “Literally” Celebrates The Murder Of Police
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