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Roland issues stark warning: Black media will die without funding, advertising

2025-07-25 News & Politics
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Roland S. Martin
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Roland delivers an urgent warning about the economic war being waged against Black-owned media, exposing how ad money, sponsorship, and systemic neglect are silencing independent Black news — and why it must stop now. 🔥 Black-owned media gets less than 1% of $400B in ad money 🔥 Roland breaks down the intentional defunding of Black media 🔥 “They want our dollars, but not our voices” — brutal truth 🔥 “This ain’t gossip. This is survival.” 🔥 Roland exposes the real reason Black media keeps disappearing #rolandmartinunfiltered #BlackStarNetwork #SupportBlackMedia Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjXB7nX8bL2U2sje8d212Yw/join Support #RolandMartinUnfiltered and #BlackStarNetwork 👉🏾 Use Cash App by visiting Stripe https://buy.stripe.com/7sI3ccgYyfSQ8y45kl 👉🏾 PayPal ☛ https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered Venmo ☛https://venmo.com/rmunfiltered Zelle ☛ [email protected] Annual or monthly recurring #BringTheFunk Fan Club membership via paypal ☛ https://rolandsmartin.com/rmu-paypal/ Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox 👉🏾 http://www.blackstarnetwork.com #RolandMartinUnfiltered and the #BlackStarNetwork are news reporting platforms covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.

Top Comments (10)

@RC-gg4xs 2025-07-25

Tired of how we ( as a whole....community...people) continually ALLOW ourselves to be played.

33 8 replies
@jamesdavis7017 2025-07-25

The problem is that we, collectively, talk about, brag about and tout our SPENDING POWER, but we never talk about INVESTMENT POWER. Investing in Black Media, Education, Businesses, etc., is more important than consumer spending and yet, it is never really discussed in terms of a strategy. We boycotted Target by withholding our spending, but we did not strategize about where to effectively redirect those dollars or a portion of those dollars. All that is on us. We have to be better strategists financially.

31 10 replies
@blackstargate_books 2025-07-25

I TRULY hope someone at Black Star Network reads these comments. I reached out via email about advertising about a year ago as directed and NO ONE EVER RESPONDED… Not hating on anyone or accusing folk of “bad business”, but you can’t ask for advertising dollars and then not respond when a business owner wants to do business with you. Just saying…

31 9 replies
@sunray7337 2025-07-25

It’s not the money Roland, it’s the Democratic Party policies for black Americans.

28 3 replies
@detroiter4eva 2025-07-25

$70,000 for lights? Really?

15 4 replies
@tracyking1489 2025-07-26

Where's the $350,000 took from Harris campaign.

10 2 replies
@MissMarjorie 2025-07-25

Everything you've warned us about over the years has come to fruition. Maybe most of us have become the man spoken of in the Bible who wants to stay inside under the covers because the lions may get us outside.

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@themasterofinfinity 2025-07-25

70000 for lights? No wonder you want more money. Wif

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@sunray7337 2025-07-25

You better get some 200 watt light bulbs

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@CHOOSEPEACENOTWAR 2025-08-01

Thanks for keeping us informed RM!

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