April 30, 2010

Time Out Chicago
“I ain’t trippin’,” Roland Martin tells Cate Plys. “So, yes: I got Diddy’s cell phone, Halle Berry’s e-mail … but you understand that those are not your friends.” ABOUT HIS NEWSPAPER DAYS: “When I ran the Chicago Defender, the reason I could be risky — we ain’t made money in 20 years! Nobody was readin’ the damn paper!” || What was trimmed from the profile.

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