4.18.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump lawlessness, DOGE/DOJ target non-profit, Sen. Van Hollen returns, MLK struggles in the North

We haven't made it to the first 100 days, and the twice-impeached, criminally convicted felon-in-chief, Donald "The Con" Trump, has unleashing lawlessness. Janai Nelson, the President and Director-Counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, will explain that although Trump's tactics aren't new, they can be stopped.

According to the nonprofit organization Vera Institute, it was targeted by Trump's DOJ and DOGE, setting a troubling precedent for targeting nonprofits that receive federal funding.

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen just returned from El Salvador, where he finally met Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the father who was wrongfully deported.

And I spoke with Jeanne Theoharis about her new book, "King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South." The book focuses on how King's experiences outside the South significantly influenced his campaign for racial justice.

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4.22.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump/MAGA attack rule of law, Student loan chaos, Harvard v Trump,"Protect White Americans" trashed

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4.18.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump lawlessness, DOGE/DOJ target non-profit, Sen. Van Hollen returns, MLK struggles in the North

We haven't made it to the first 100 days, and the twice-impeached, criminally convicted felon-in-chief, Donald "The Con" Trump, has unleashing lawlessness. Janai Nelson, the President and Director-Counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, will explain that although Trump's tactics aren't new, they can be stopped.

According to the nonprofit organization Vera Institute, it was targeted by Trump's DOJ and DOGE, setting a troubling precedent for targeting nonprofits that receive federal funding.

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen just returned from El Salvador, where he finally met Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the father who was wrongfully deported.

And I spoke with Jeanne Theoharis about her new book, "King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South." The book focuses on how King's experiences outside the South significantly influenced his campaign for racial justice.

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4.17.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Karmelo Anthony case, Sen. Van Hollen denied Kilmar Abrego Garcia meeting, NAACP sues DOE for DEI cuts

We will break down the Karmelo Anthony case with a family spokesperson. The 17-year-old maintains he was protecting himself from Austin Metcalf.
Today, during the Anthony family news conference, Metcalf's father was escorted out, and those MAGA fools had a fit.

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen gets denied a second time from seeing Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador .

The Guatemalan man who was forcefully detained by ICE agents in Massachusetts was not who they were looking for, but he's still behind bars.

Federal health cuts will eliminate several programs, including those on gun and youth violence prevention, and minority health.

The NAACP filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education to stop its alleged illegal effort to cut off funding to schools that use DEI programs.

And hundreds of North Carolina Central University students protested what they say are poor living conditions on campus.

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4.16.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump admin held in contempt, Bernie Sanders Repub warning, Musk AI plant pollutes Black community

A federal judge found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for violating a deportation order.

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen is in El Salvador to work on a plan to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to U.S. soil. However, the El Salvadorian Vice President claims the Trump administration is paying the country to detain the innocent man.

Nearly 22 years ago, Senator Bernie Sanders warned America about the unfolding Republican agenda. We'll show you what he said in 2003.

A Detroit pastor reports that Saint Augustine's University has not disclosed what happened to a $50,000 scholarship donation.

Elon Musk's AI plant is reportedly using more gas turbines than permitted, leading to increased air pollution in Black communities in Memphis. Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson has criticized local officials for allowing the tech mogul to exploit loopholes. He'll be here to explain.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made some interesting comments regarding people living with autism.

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4.16.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump admin held in contempt, Bernie Sanders Repub warning, Musk AI plant pollutes Black community

A federal judge found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for violating a deportation order.

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen is in El Salvador to work on a plan to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to U.S. soil. However, the El Salvadorian Vice President claims the Trump administration is paying the country to detain the innocent man.

Nearly 22 years ago, Senator Bernie Sanders warned America about the unfolding Republican agenda. We'll show you what he said in 2003.

A Detroit pastor reports that Saint Augustine's University has not disclosed what happened to a $50,000 scholarship donation.

Elon Musk's AI plant is reportedly using more gas turbines than permitted, leading to increased air pollution in Black communities in Memphis. Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson has criticized local officials for allowing the tech mogul to exploit loopholes. He'll be here to explain.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made some interesting comments regarding people living with autism.

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4.14.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: DOJ ends raw sewage settlement, Crockett rips GOP's dangerous health agenda, El Salvador Deportation

In 2023, the Department of Justice identified a pattern of neglect by Alabama's Department of Public Health, which has contributed to a decades-old water and sewage crisis in the state's "Black Belt," specifically in Lowndes County. Now, the MAGA administration is terminating the settlement that was reached to address the county's water issues. I will speak with the Rural Development Manager of the Equal Justice Initiative about how this decision will continue to affect Black citizens in Alabama.

The false narrative that noncitizens were voting led to the passage of the SAVE Act, which requires documentary proof of citizenship to register or update voter information. We will discuss with the Policy Council from the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law the implications of this law on voters.

In tonight's Crockett Chronicles, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett calls out MAGA Republicans for turning public health into a partisan circus.

And thousands turnout to honor one of the greatest boxers of all time, George Foreman.

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4.15.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Social Security Day of Action, MAGA vs. Black farmers, Renting a car while Black

Democratic lawmakers are fighting to keep MAGA from dismantling Social Security.. We'll tell you what lawmakers are doing on this Save Social Security Day of Action.

Black farmers have always been excluded from federal funding grants. Now that MAGA is running the government, black farmers are struggling more than ever since the USDA cut DEI programs. The President of the National Black Farmers Association will be here to explain what they are doing to help farmers keep their land.

We'll talk to the CEO of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice about the DOJ decision to terminate the agreement to fix a decades-old water and sewage crisis in the Alabama's "Black Belt."

We'll talk to three black men who were detained for stealing a car. But they rented it. It's a wild story you don't want to miss.

And we'll talk to LPGA great Renee Powell about the C.learview Legacy Foundation.

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