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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A photo showing a smiling former death row inmate with a #VOTED sticker on his forehead has captured the social media spotlight. Anthony Hinton spent 28 years on Alabama’s death row before his release in 2015. The group that helped free him, Equal Justice Initiative, tweeted the picture with the message, […]

  Blac Chyna’s mother Tokyo Toni has claimed Chyna doesn’t allow her to see her granddaughter Dream Kardashian. Last week Toni posted an Instagram video asking Rob Kardashin to let her see Dream. This is not the first time Toni has claimed Chyna keeps her from seeing the baby. Chyna also has a son named […]

Good Morning Everybody! As you already know, the upcoming midterm elections may very well be the most important and consequential of our lifetime. I know it seems like somebody says that for every single election, and maybe it was true then, I don’t know, but I’m positive that it’s true now. In 4 weeks, the […]

Good Morning Everybody! As you all already know, Andrew Gillum won his election in Florida on Tuesday and became the first African American to ever be nominated by a major party to be Governor in the State of Florida. On Tuesday morning, right here on the show, I told you all that I thought Andrew […]

It’s election season and tomorrow is Florida’s primary elections. Roland Martin talks to Tallahassee mayor & democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum about what it would take for him to win. Gillum says, “I need people to vote like their life depends on it.” And he says that lives could very easily depend on the outcome of this […]

The former FLOTUS, today, launches When We All Vote, a new celeb-heavy, non-partisan voter registration initiative aimed at increasing voter registration rates in all 50 states ahead of the midterms. In 2014, more than 1/5th of eligible American citizens were not registered to vote, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts research cited in the press […]

Roland Martin talks to Mayor of Tallahassee, Andrew Gillum, about his campaign to become the governor of Florida. Gillum is the only non millionaire or billionaire in the 5 way race. But he sees it as an advantage, “we’re running this thing off the strength of regular folks.” Because of his humble beginnings and values he […]

Trump is in the process of appointing a new Supreme Court justice and it looks like he’s going about it, “TV style,” it almost seems like “he’s putting on a show.” Trump says that he wants to pick someone intelligent and smart but Russ wants to know, how can he be the judge of traits […]

America is about to change! Justice Kennedy is retiring, and,”the most insane” President America has ever had will have to pick a new Supreme Court Justice. Russ fears, if America keeps heading in the direction that we’re headed, segregation will become legal again.  He also says that we’re feeling the “consequence” of not voting. Don’t […]

With the midterm congressional primaries about to go into full swing, the Department of Homeland Security is playing catch-up in helping to ensure that state election systems are secure against cybertampering by the Russians or others bent on mischief. The department said it has completed on-site risk assessments of election systems in just nine of […]

The U.S. has only elected two Black governors.

11/7/17-“Wake up everybody you got an extra hour of sleep, go vote,” says Huggy. He gives a hilarious but truthful PSA to get everybody out to exercise their rights to vote. Huggy approves this message! Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram Sign Up For Our Newsletter!