The Tom Joyner Morning Show

For a short time following the Civil War, African-Americans in the state of Virginia were granted the right to run for office and vote for delegates under the new reconstruction law. Freed slaves in Hampton lined up from sun-up to sundown at the polls to vote. In 1867, 92 percent of eligible freed blacks voted […]

By the mid-sixties, the civil rights movement showed signs of change as a younger, more radical base emerged. This week in 1966, Stokely Carmichael, later known as Kwame Ture, assumed the role of chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and shifted the group from its earlier idealogy of nonviolence and racial inclusion. Carmichael, then […]

Donald Trump is having a great week. Yesterday one of his enemies, attorney Michael Avenatti was charged with pretty much everything in the book. He was charged with wire fraud and bank fraud. This all started with a complaint alleging he embezzled a client’s money in order to pay his own expenses and debts. HEAD […]

https://youtu.be/FjPvKfzzSbQ Mike Epps is a newly married man and you can hear the joy in his voice. “I’m doing good,” he tells the TJMS Crew, “I got a beautiful wife” he continues. He and his wife have been traveling and enjoying each other’s company, “I feel like the Lord sent her to me,”  he beamed. He’s […]