Commentary

So listen, you guys know sometimes how things can be right in your face and you don’t know about it, right?  I was trying to figure out what I was going to do for the show yesterday.  I was talking to your producers and I said, what am I going to do?  And I took […]

Eight-year-old Donald Maiden Jr. is lying in a Dallas hospital with a gunshot wound to his face. Donald, who is black, had just celebrated his 8th birthday and was playing tag outside his apartment complex when he was shot last week by Brian Cloniger, a white 46-year-old who had been seen waving a gun earlier […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Listen to the interview exclusive between Roland Martin and Ben Jealous above. Benjamin Todd Jealous, the youngest president ever elected to lead the NAACP, will resign on Dec. 31 saying he wants to spend more time with his wife and children. In an interview with USA TODAY, Jealous said the demands of travel […]

Jeff Johnson has 3 Things You Should Know, and today he focuses on what we can learn from 11-year-old college student, Carson Huey. Listen to the…

In a way, I pity Miley Cyrus. I don’t pity her because her hapless attempt at twerking and tongue-twirling at the recent Video Music Awards had more people asking, “What the hell?” than saying “Wow!” I don’t pity her because many are condemning her act as racist – among other things, she fondled and slapped […]

If you’re black and angry at another black person on your job, please don’t shout the N-word – it could become illegal. The N-word is used all over the country by black folks were who mad, loving or joking. But now, a New York federal jury court has weighed in to say use of the […]

When opinion writers from The NY Times decide to write about “twerking,” in a satirical essay riddled with a few questionable one liners, Black people…

Ohio State Senator, Nina Turner talked to “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” about the importance of August 28th. Not only does this day mark the…

President Barack Obama purposefully placed a bronze bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oval Office to remind him of King’s non-violent movement for racial equality and social justice. On Wednesday, 50 years after King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his soul-stirring “I Have a Dream” speech during […]

OK, these guys asked for it. Jim Langer, Manny Fernandez and Bob Kuechenberg must want me to go into my “the 1972 Miami Dolphins weren’t all that good” rant. Well, if they want it, they got it. The 1972 Miami Dolphins remain the only team that has gone through an entire National Football League season […]

This is a tale of the greatest love story of the 20th century, one that continued well into the 21st. This is the story of Ruth Katherine Floyd’s love for her six children. And her 11 grandchildren. And of her great-grandchildren, whose numbers approached nearly two dozen. Ruth Floyd was born black, poor and female […]

Vickie Marble, a Republican state senator from Colorado, claims she didn’t mean to offend African Americans when she said black people are living in poverty, in part, because they eat too much fried chicken. “When you look at life expectancy, there are problems in the black race,” Marble said during a meeting of the legislature’s […]