As much as I’m offended by the term “illegal alien” and as much as I’m an advocate of people from any part of this hemisphere running amok throughout the United States freely, I must admit that I was amazed by not amused that there was an outcry among Latinos about a mural painted in Arizona […]

Roland has a strong message for the leaders in Washington but the question is, are they listening? See what Roland has to say … WATCH: Roland Martin’s Perspective

From the NY Times: Although the Coast Guard had trained for the possibility of cleaning up a disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it had never anticipated that oil would spread across such a broad area and break up into hundreds of thousands of patches as the current spill has done, the commander […]

I watched “The World’s Most Dangerous Group,” a Vh-1 documentary about the legendary hip hop group, NWA.  

From TheGrio.com: An Augusta, Georgia man is in jail accused of giving his 9-year-old so much alcohol she had to be hospitalized. Jeffery Hickson is now charged with Cruelty to Children. We’re told the 9-year-old girl was spending the night with Hickson when she called her mother crying, begging to come home. When the mother […]

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) — African-American voters couldn’t help the man who became the nation’s first black president win Arkansas in 2008. But the Democratic candidates for the Senate here, incumbent Blanche Lincoln and Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, believe black voters could decide their race, and both are waging an unusually intense campaign in the […]