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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, took a knee on the House floor Monday night in support of NFL players who knelt during the national anthem following Donald Trump’s criticism of the protest. “There is no basis in the First Amendment that says that you cannot kneel on the national anthem or in front of the […]

05/23/14 – Roland Martin talks to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee about the unveiling of the new Martin Luther King, Jr. statue  this weekend in Houston at the historic McGreggor Park. “There was a special commitment made some 36 years ago when Daddy King came to Houston to plant ‘The Tree of Life’. We decided to […]

Another dead black man. Another mysterious death. Another federal investigation. And yet, there are no immediate answers for why Alfred Wright, a 28-year-old physical therapist and a married father of three, was found dead in a field in Jasper, Texas. Not one. What makes this case more curious — and insidious — is that Wright […]