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“NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin has been following for you the case of President Obama’s controversial, and downright confusing, judicial nominees. The nominees have been…

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Ron Paul has made no secret the fact that he thought that the South was right in the Civil War. Here he is giving a speech in front of a giant Confederate Flag about why he believes the North was wrong in the Civil War and why the South was right. Ron Paul is a […]

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Girl Scouts, Special Olympics, Dallas Mavericks… all specialty license plates seen on Texas Roadways. But what about a Confederate flag? It’s a request just one vote away from approval and it’s stirring up a whirlwind of controversy. To hear more about this story, check out the video below.

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Is the right to display a Confederate flag a matter of free speech? Or should anything related to a government function, whether it is a building or an instrument of law, remain unfettered by symbols that are offensive to millions? While the answer seems obvious, this debate is heating up again as our nation endures […]

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SHREVEPORT, LA-Felton Dorsey, an African American who was convicted of murder in 2009, wants the conviction overturned because the judge only selected one Black juror and because the confederate flag, “The quintessential symbol of white supremacy” flies over the courthouse he was convicted in. The Wall Street Journal reports: The flag “is a symbol of […]

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South Carolina –The 2011 federal observance day of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday, brought the 11th Annual NAACP ‘Day At The Dome’, a march and rally in protest of the Confederate Flag and social injustices in Columbia, South Carolina. Mildred Gaddis  of AM 1200 WCHB and over 125 Detroiters left no stone unturned  in their […]