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Revolt’s Detavio Samuels, Black Star Network Leader Roland Martin and BET Founder Robert Johnson on the State of Black-Owned Media
Revolt CEO Detavio Samuels explains how the linear TV and digital brand is adapting on the Variety podcast 'Strictly Business.'
Fast-forward to March 4, 2025, when Martin’s Black Star Network delivered a six-and-a-half-hour live special called “The State of Our Union,” offered as an alternative to Donald Trump’s address to the joint session of Congress. The show offers a survey of headlines, commentary and lively debates on a range of pressing political issues and cultural trends by panels of Black academics, lawyers, activists, legislators, civil servants, experts and entrepreneurs. Martin’s work has taken on a furious pace in the past few months amid the Trump administration’s campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion protocols and health, welfare and Medicaid cuts that will fall hard on vulnerable Black Americans.
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