Charter School Fight Heads to Court, GOP Breaks on Obamacare, Trump Cuts Spark Hunger Crisis
#RolandMartinUnfiltered
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
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12.17.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Charter School Fight Heads to Court, GOP Breaks on Obamacare, Trump Cuts Spark Hunger Crisis
A yearslong fight over a Middletown charter school in Bridgeport Connecticut heads to court -- why a campus approved in 2023 still hasn't opened, and what's at stake for parents and kids... Dr. Steve Perry joins us from Capital Preparatory Schools.
Four House Republicans buck Speaker Mike Johnson and side with Democrats to extend Obamacare subsidies, hear from GOP members and what's next with millions of Americans healthcare.
ProPublica uncovers a man-made hunger crisis in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp after Trump's USAID cuts, Reporter Anna Maria Barry-Jester joins us.
And 50 years after NABJ's founding, co-founder Norma Adams-Wade is here to talk legacy, Black media power, and the new Jubilee Endowment push.
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