The Oscar Noms are out! ‘Selma’ star and director as well as Jennifer Anniston, Angelina Jolie, and the ‘Lego’ movie all passed over. However, ‘Selma’…

Black History Month

  Two years ago, I had the opportunity to meet with Congressman John Lewis in his Capitol Hill office. I listened intently as he recounted…

UPDATED Thursday, March 5, 2015, at 1103 a.m., EST– The Civil Rights Movement of the 20th Century was perhaps the most significant call for justice in modern…

Ferguson

Civil rights icon, Rep. John Lewis joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss what is currently happening in Ferguson, Gov. Jay Nixon declaring a…

The Belle meets with one of the cast members Wendell Pierce in Montgomery, AL PR/Paramont Pictures/ – Hollywood, CA – One of Paramount Pictures latest…

This isn’t Black History Month, but today is an important day. It is the day that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and several other notable African Americans reached Montgomery, Alabama after marching for four days from Selma. The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks–and three events–that represented the political and emotional peak of […]