Roland s martin stacey dash biography

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Journalist

One of the rising young stars of African-American journalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Roland S. Martin seemed like a whirlwind of activity as his career took off.

He worked as a reporter for black-owned and white-owned newspapers; his voice was heard on radio news programs; he held editorial positions at a major magazine and a high-traffic black-oriented Web site; his syndicated column ran in newspapers nationwide; he was a frequent guest on radio and television talk shows of all political stripes; he ran a multimedia company of his own; and he wrote books.

In Martin took on perhaps his greatest challenge: the revitalization of the once-mighty, but increasingly moribund, Chicago Defender.

Born around in Houston, Texas, Martin was inspired to follow a career in journalism by his father, an avid newspaper reader and fan of television news.

In Martin graduated from Houston's Jack Yates High School in a magn