9.16.2024 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: MAGA Lies Admission, HBCU Funding, Remembering Tito Jackson, Where's Our Money?

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance admits he lied and does regret spreading baseless rumors that Haitian immigrants are stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.  Those lies led to bomb threats and the cancellation of the city's Culture Fest.   
Haitian actress Garcelle Beauvais has a lot to say to the MAGAs who are lying about the  Haitian community.
 
The man arrested for Sunday's alleged assassination attempt was once a Trumper. 

President Joe Biden says his administration is investing over $1 billion in HBCUs, bringing its total contributions to the schools to more than $17 billion.  We'll talk to Steven Benjamin, the  Director and Public Engagement and UNCF's Senior Vice President of public Policy and Government Affairs, about how this money will impact HBCUs.

Georgia identifies its first preventable death abortion ban-related death.  We'll talk to the senior editor of ProPublica, who broke the story. 

Tito Jackson, one of the brothers who made up the pop group the Jackson 5, has died.

And I will talk about how companies are still not spending dollars with black-owned media companies. 

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