Sybil Wilkes discusses today's news headlines including Frank Ocean's coming out, new tax on healthcare, and a lifeguard fired for trying to save a man's life.

Dear Tom, My mom was only 19 when she had me and she raised me all by herself. She has always told me stories about how she struggled in school and in college but she never gave up.  It took her a lot longer to finish but she graduated college with a degree in education. […]

Teenage boy singing group, Mindless Behavior apologized after receiving backlash from all over for making a crack at Lauryn Hill. During the BET Awards, the boys shared the stage with comedian Mike Epps to present the award for best female artist. When Epps decided to sing, terribly, boy group member Ray Ray commented saying, “You […]

Stephanie Robinson  talks about the pastor or pimp test that Dr. Donald H. Matthews has come up with on TJMS.

If you’re in New Orleans for the Essence Festival which starts today and runs through the weekend, take a detour from the musical performances and head over to the National Wake Up Tour. Comedians Paul Mooney and Dick Gregory are headlining spot performances around the country to bring both the laughs and the knowledge to […]

Chaka Khan is experiencing a well-deserved career resurgence lately and looking good while doing so. She may have blown out 59 candles on her birthday cake this year, but the iconic diva’s recent weight loss has made her the object of adoration again. At the recent BET Awards, she was part of a stellar Whitney […]

The Daughters of the American Revolution is a historically white organization for woman descendants of rebel patriots that served in the American Revolution. For centuries, black women were discouraged from joining the group. But now there is a newly organized Jamaica Queens chapter of the D.A.R. It is among the first chapters in the groups’ […]

Roland Martin talks with Major General Marcia Anderson, the Highest Ranking African American General in the Army in honor of Independence Day and Diversity within the U.S.Army Reserve.

If you’re anywhere from the East Coast to the Midwest this weekend, there’s no relief from record-breaking temperatures. If you have power, it’s a good idea to stay in, but if you don’t obviously you’ll want to find a space to stay cool. For those around the country for whom double digit summer temperatures are […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is marking the Fourth of July by thanking service members and their families, who he said "represent what is best in America." The president, accompanied by first lady Michelle Obama, hosted a barbecue and concert Wednesday for the families on the White House South Lawn. Obama saluted "this generation […]

Alfred Hair a.k.a “Freddie” of Fort Pierce, Florida was a black artist and student of a well-known white art teacher named A.E. Backus. Hair was born pre-civil rights and used painting as a release from the segregated south.  His style of painting bright scenes of Florida, with no two paintings just alike, came to be […]

Well guys, as you well know, we, black folk, take our religion seriously.       That’s why when we hear about church leaders acting far-less-than-holy, it causes such a stir… Case in point: A Houston pastor and his wife were recently arrested and charged with conning their former congregation at Bethel Institutional Missionary Baptist Church […]