Turmoil In East Africa, 2024 Election Season, Black Book Stores Publishing Co Snubs, US Debt Ceiling
#RolandMartinUnfiltered
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🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 120 minutes
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5.1.2023 ##RolandMartinUnfiltered: Turmoil In East Africa, 2024 Election Season, Black Book Stores Publishing Co Snubs, US Debt Ceiling
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy introduced the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, which will raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion for about a year and decimate student loan forgiveness, some Veteran Affairs Benefits, and other social programs. We will explain how this will impact your pockets.
The 2024 U.S. presidential race is heating up as candidates enter and exit the campaign trail. We'll discuss what's at stake and how each candidate is trying to engage voters in 2024.
Turmoil and tragedy are rising in East Africa as the region faces severe droughts and political upheavals. We will describe what's happening on the ground and what needs to be done to ensure peace.
Black bookstores are being snubbed by publishing companies. We will speak with Tulsa and New Orleans bookstore owners about being overlooked and shut out of economic and promotional opportunities.
An Ohio Barber has gone viral for giving kids with special needs a safe space to get great haircuts. We will speak to him about how he believes more accessibility to grooming is needed in the beauty industry.
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| 0:34.7 | East European government put together a plan to unite all of the paramilitary militia forces |
| 0:40.6 | from these 11 regions under one presidential decree and under the centralized leadership. |
| 0:46.5 | This led to fighting between the factions and the Tigray regions in the north of the country, |
| 0:53.1 | starting in the end of 2021, going all the way through to the end of 2022. |
| 0:58.1 | This battle led to widespread famine and genocide, killing over 600,000 people over the course of the two-year war. |
| 1:06.6 | Now, at the same time, I understand the need to focus on Ukraine and all the fighting going on there, but we've got an almost no Western attention on the Tigray War in East Africa. |
| 1:17.2 | And the only reason we're getting any attention on the Sudanese conflict currently is because Western nations have begun the process of pulling out their diplomats. |
| 1:25.6 | We saw emergency flights leaving that country |
| 1:28.3 | over a thousand Americans at this point in time have been evacuated from Sudan. There are |
| 1:33.3 | estimated 16,000 Americans in country who have been told since last summer to try to flee that area. |
| 1:38.3 | And as a result of this, we're finding it very difficult to find out who are the international players |
| 1:45.8 | who have both been manipulating the actions both in Ethiopia in the last two years and now |
| 1:52.9 | in Sudan as this area remains war-torn. The reason this is significant to you and the reason |
| 1:59.6 | to pay attention to this is this may be the first water war of the 21st century. |
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