Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking
Detroit officials first raised the idea in the 1990s, when blight was spreading. Now, with the recession plunging the city deeper into ruin, a decision on how to move forward is approaching. Mayor Dave Bing, who took office last year, ...
Program Will Pay Homeowners to Sell at a Loss
Source: DAVID STREITFELD/NY Times In an effort to end the foreclosure crisis, the Obama administration has been trying to keep defaulting owners in their homes. Now it will take a new approach: paying some of them to leave. This latest program, which ...
Mo’Nique wins best supporting actress
Source: Alan Duke/CNN Mo'Nique, who played an abusive mother in "Precious," won best supporting actress at the 82nd annual Academy Awards Sunday night. In a fierce and memorable acceptance speech, the actress thanked the Academy, "Gone With the Wind" actress Hattie McDaniel ...
Nathan Deal Delays Retirement To Try To Kill Health Care Reform
Congressman Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), is delaying his resignation from Congress to vote against health care, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Deal had planned to resign on Monday in order to enter the Georgia gubernatorial race, but delayed his resignation by three weeks. "Just ...
College officials flunk in face of repeated racist incidents
Before the ill named and famed "Compton Cook Out" ignited a firestorm of student rage and protest at the University of California, San Diego and several other UC campuses, there was the "Halloween in the Hood" party, the lynching parties, ...
Roland, TJMS, 03.04.10: Roland S. Martin/Tom Joyner Morning Show, Roland talks with Marc Morial President and CEO of the National Urban League
Roland talks with Marc Morial President and CEO of the National Urban League about the 100th year anniversary of the Nation Urban League. In this their 100th year, The National Urban League is inviting people to join in a new ...
- ESPN’s Rick Reilly needs to grow a pair11 March 2010, 2:57 pm
As a columnist, I’m used to writing things that offend other folks. It comes with the job. And there are times when I have responded to what other folks in the media will say and write. Again, it’s just what we do. There have been a number of things I’ve read and heard over the past [...]...
- Obama’s Student Loan Overhaul Endangered11 March 2010, 2:45 pm
Source: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN/The New York Times With Democratic Congressional leaders and the White House struggling on Wednesday to finalize the details of major health care legislation, House Democrats were desperately trying to prevent another of President Obama’s top legislative priorities – an ambitious overhaul of student loan programs – from becoming a casualty of the [...]... - Nigerians recount sectarian ‘revenge’ slayings11 March 2010, 2:20 pm
Dispassionately, the baby-faced young man recounted his killings: two women and one man, first beaten senseless with a stick, then stabbed to death with a short knife. The man, Dahiru Adamu, 25, was crouching on the floor in the sprawling police headquarters here, summoned to give an accounting of the terrible night of March 7, [...]... - Jobless claims bill OK’d by Senate10 March 2010, 10:11 pm
Source: Tami Luhby/CNN Money The Senate on Wednesday approved a wide-ranging bill that would push back the deadline to file for extended unemployment insurance until year-end and extends dozens of expired tax breaks. The bill, passed by a 62-36 vote, is the latest job creation effort to go before lawmakers, though it contains virtually no new initiatives. [...]... - Obama hosts Haitian President Preval for talks10 March 2010, 7:16 pm
Source: MSNBC.com President Barack Obama on Wednesday renewed America’s commitment to the recovery and reconstruction of earthquake-devastated Haiti, telling visiting President Rene Preval he knows the crisis has not passed. After an Oval Office meeting, Obama stood beside Preval in the White House Rose Garden to praise the Haitian leader’s courage and the heroic work of Americans [...]...
- Rove defends 2003 Iraq invasion [updated link]11 March 2010, 5:01 am
Former Bush adviser Karl Rove attacks the belief that the Bush administration exaggerated the case for war in Iraq. Sphere: Related Content... - Congressman Patrick Kennedy outburst: ‘no press’?10 March 2010, 9:06 pm
Congressman Patrick Kennedy takes on the media, claiming laws in the works aren’t getting enough attention. Sphere: Related Content... - Could soda tax save budgets?10 March 2010, 5:40 pm
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter speaks to CNN’s Campbell Brown about his support for a tax on soda. Sphere: Related Content... - Colbert Hammers GOP For Insane Euphemisms10 March 2010, 5:15 pm
As part his week-long look at health care (and the Republican’s fear that Dems are ramming the bill down their throat), last night Stephen Colbert broke down the word “reconciliation,” mocking the media’s adoption of “nuclear option” to replace it. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Define & Conquer www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political [...]... - Massa explains behavior10 March 2010, 3:55 pm
Former congressman Eric Massa discusses allegations of questionable behavior to CNN’s Larry King. Sphere: Related Content...
Podcasts
Roland, TJMS, 03.10.10: Roland S. Martin/Tom Joyner Morning Show, Roland talks with Dr. Julianne Malveaux, President of Bennett College about Black roles in Hollywood
Dr. Malveaux is critical of the character that Mo’nique plays in ‘Precious’. She would like to see more positive roles for African-Americans in Hollywood. Malveaux also feels that we are never shown in all of our diversity and that there are not enough positive rolls for African-American women. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or... [Click here to listen]
Roland, TJMS, 03.09.10: Roland S. Martin/Tom Joyner Morning Show, Roland discusses his interview with Winnie Mandela.
Roland discusses his interview with Winnie Mandela. Mandela explained during the interview that expecting massive change one year after the election of President Barack Obama is impossible. How can you ask this President to enact that kind of change when he is following the bad deeds of 43 other Presidents. Mandela also talks about the danger in South... [Click here to listen]
Roland S. Martin/Tom Joyner Morning Show, Ted Shaw, Columbia University Law Professor, 03.08.10
Roland talks to Ted Shaw, Columbia University law professor, former head of NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Is Attorney General Eric Holder being pushed to the back out of public view. Holder has not been recently seen or heard from in recent weeks. Ted Shaw explains what appears to be the White House’s direction in the matter. Roland also... [Click here to listen]
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Washington Watch w/Roland Martin, White House Domestic Policy Advisor Melody Barnes 03.07.10
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VIDEO: Roland talks with Van Jones
President Obama’s former Green czar Van Jones sits with Roland to talk about building...
Washington Watch w/Roland Martin, Georgia Congressman Tom Price and Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings 02.21.10 [Transcript]
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