The Tom Joyner Morning Show

The Tom Joyner Morning Show

Roy Wilkins will be forever immortalized by way of Gil Scott-Heron’s stirring “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” poem, and his legacy is still greatly respected. Today is the late NAACP leader’s birthday. Roy Ottoway Wilkins was born in St. Louis, Mo. in 1901. After losing his parents at a young age, he was raised […]

Last weekends episode of Power was a lot to handle! There were so many twists, turns and surprises. For many viewers the most shocking part was that 50 Cent’s character, Kanan, died! No one expected 50 to kill himself off of his own show, but it looks like he did. Or did he? Do you […]

Get ready Nashville, Corey Holcomb is coming to town! He’ll be performing at Zanies all weekend. Holcomb called into the TJMS this morning and was already cracking jokes! Did you know that you can find some of the most beautiful women “in the hood?” He says that it’s great because “they don’t expect nothing from […]

Today Guy has a lot going on!  Guy’s Gripe is, when you decide to take on a job for a friend pro bono you should take it as seriously as if you were getting paid for your services. There’s a Torry Story behind this one. Guy’s friend agreed to help him plan his 50th birthday and started […]

Tiger Woods was asked to share his thoughts on Donald Trump and he defended him. Woods said, “we all must respect the office of the president,” apparently people missed that memo when Obama was in office. But we really shouldn’t be surprised that he defended Trump since they have so much in common.  Chris Paul says […]

Roland Martin says “don’t call it an upset,” the competition got “knocked out” last night when Andrew Gillum won the democratic nomination for governor of Florida. As expected, Andrew Gillum is “above the clouds right now,” but says he’s “quickly coming down because we have an election to win in November.” Gillum started out trailing […]

Yesterday, Andrew Gillum won the democratic nomination for governor of Florida. Rev. Al Sharpton says the thing that sticks out in his mind about Gillum is that he was the first candidate to stand up against the stand your ground law in the recent killing of Markeis McGlockton. In other news, our president is “petty!” […]

Tom is feeling good this morning because Andrew Gillum won the democratic nomination for governor of Florida. This victory gives him the historic opportunity to be the first black governor in Florida’s history. We have spoken to Gillum several times along the way and are so proud that he won! Now let’s help him win […]

After remaining silent about the passing of sen. John McCain, Donald Trump finally offered his half-hearted “condolences.” But of course he continued to do things wrong, and had to basically be bullied into lowering the American Flag at the White House out of respect for sen. McCain. READ MORE STORIES ON BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM: SIGN UP FOR […]

Why do black people have long funerals and weddings? Sherri says that part of the issue with funerals is that there’s always someone who falls over the casket and lays there for hours as if it’s going to bring the person back. Weddings are a whole different story! Kym says that Sherri’s wedding lasted “longer […]