Roland Martin Unfiltered

Decolonizing our tongues & celebrating Juneteenth through food w/ Dr. Sunyatta Amen | #TheBlackTable
Dr. Sunyatta Amen reveals how Juneteenth food traditions, particularly red foods, are deeply rooted in African ancestral practices and acts of resistance, while warning against corporate co-option.

Colonial Lies. Miseducation. Haile Gerima on Black Lions, Roman Wolves #TheBlackTable
Legendary filmmaker Haile Gerima discusses his 30-year journey creating 'Black Lions, Roman Wolves,' a documentary that reclaims Ethiopian history from colonial narratives, and his commitment to independent Black cinema through the Sankofa Film Institute.

Colonial Lies. Miseducation. Haile Gerima on Black Lions, Roman Wolves #TheBlackTable
Legendary filmmaker Haile Gerima discusses his lifelong commitment to independent cinema, decolonizing historical narratives, and building institutions that empower African and African-descended people to tell their own stories.

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World | #TheBlackTable
Professor Howard French reinterprets the birth of the modern world, arguing that Africa and African labor were not peripheral obstacles but the central, indispensable foundation of Europe's economic rise and global dominance.
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