Roland Martin’s Deleted Post and Jamilah Lemieux on Black Relationships | Higher Learning
April 21, 2026
32,160
1,423
469
5.88%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
Higher Learning Episodes Around April 21, 2026
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
2:15:53Now PlayingRoland Martin’s Deleted Post and Jamilah Lemieux on Black Relationships | Higher Learning
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelVan and Rachel react to Mary J. Blige’s comments on her 2012 Burger King commercial before discussing Roland Martin’s response to Justin Fairfax killing his wife, Cerina, and then himself. Then writer Jamilah Lemieux joins to talk about her new book, ‘Black. Single. Mother.: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging.’
(0:00) Intro
(4:49) Mary J. Blige’s Burger King commercial
(16:04) Roland Martin’s response to the Fairfax murder-suicide
(46:06) Jamilah Lemieux joins the show
(48:16) Shame in being a single mom?
(1:02:29) A conversation about Black women and men
(1:33:08) Decentering men
(1:55:59) Should a man check his friends?
Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay
Guest: Jamilah Lemieux
Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Jade Whaley
Social Producer: Bernard Moore
Video Supervision: Chris Thomas and Jacob Cornett
For more from The Ringer:
Links & Promotions
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.