This morning I have a few important news stories to cover so I’ll jump right in. First, I wanna tell you about a lawsuit that was just filed against Harvard University by our friend Attorney Ben Crump on behalf of the descendants of two enslaved Africans – a middle aged Black man named Renty and […]
So many people have thrown their hat into the race for the White House it can be hard to keep up sometimes. Roland Martin talks to Julian Castro who believes it’s time for a shift in “energy” at the White House. Julian Castro, who served as the secretary of HUD under the Obama administration, believes […]
Huggy is waiting for Joe Biden to announce that he’s running for president. He says “I’m ridin with Biden!’ The folks in DC have his campaign song picked out and ready, it’s Chuck Brown’s ‘Run Joe!’ Biden is old but he’s not Bernie Sanders old, so he’s okay with that. As long as the two […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke formally announced Thursday that he’ll seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, ending months of intense speculation over whether he’d try to translate his newfound political celebrity into a White House bid. Until he challenged Republican Sen. Ted Cruz last year, O’Rourke was little known outside his […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is boosting her staffing in the early-voting state of South Carolina, adding two experienced operatives who’ll be key to navigating the home of the first 2020 primary in the South. The California senator’s presidential campaign announced Wednesday that Reggie Abraham has come on as deputy state […]
2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke with The Breakfast Club on Monday and when co-host Charlamagne tha God noted that “44 out of 45 presidents in this country have been white men,” he then asked the lawmaker “Do you think we need another one?” To which Sanders replied, “Well, I think you need this […]
Several Democratic presidential candidates are embracing reparations for the descendants of slaves — but not in the traditional sense. Over the past week, Sen. Kamala Harris of California, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro spoke of the need for the U.S. government to reckon with and make […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 presidential campaign reshaped Democratic politics, announced Tuesday that he is running for president in 2020. “Our campaign is not only about defeating Donald Trump,” the 77-year-old self-described democratic socialist said in an email to supporters. “Our campaign is about transforming our country and creating a […]
NEW YORK (AP) — So, Regina King walked into a 99-cent store. And what’d she get? A prophecy on her life. No joke. King was shopping around — “sometimes people will say, ‘You at the 99-cent store?’ I like a bargain too” — when a woman walked up to her with something of a prediction. […]
There are a number of Democrats running for President and things are heating up. Roland Martin talks to Ron Lester about the things that are changing in the 2020 election. Candidates used to start their campaigns in Iowa and New Hampshire but Democratic Candidates are hitting multiple states because the democratic map has changed. Even […]
Senator Kamala Harris is in the running to be the 46th president of the United States. While there are a number of people excited to see a Black woman running, there are some people who question some things in her past. Harris was a District Attorney and with that job comes putting people in jail. […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is taking his call for social justice to Iowa, where he plans to visit with black leaders this weekend on his first trip to the early 2020 caucus state as a Democratic presidential candidate. Booker is using rhetoric reminiscent of the civil rights movement to […]
