Football, HBCU Sports

Alcorn State coach Jay Hopson made history in dramatic fashion in the Port City Classic in Shreveport, La. Alcorn State coach Jay Hopson made history in dramatic fashion in the Port City Classic in Shreveport, La. Hopson, the first non-black head football coach in the 92-year history of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, guided the Braves […]

National News

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered state prison officials to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder. U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled in the case of Michelle Kosilek, who was born as a man but has received hormone treatments and lives as a […]

Food & Travel

While many around the country know Tremé as the title of an acclaimed television series, closer to home we know that it's much, much more than that. Incorporated in 1812, Faubourg Tremé (faubourg is French for “suburb”) was the first free black neighborhood in the United States. It is also the neighborhood that gave rise […]

Tonight officially kicks off the Democratic National Convention and this will be an opportunity for the Democrats and specifically President Obama to clarify to the nation what he has accomplished, how it has made your and my life better (or in some cases, saved us from getting worse), and what his vision for America is […]

National News

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Michelle Obama's message: President Barack Obama is just like you. "Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it," the first lady told the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday in an address intended to reassure voters that her husband shares their values — hard work, perseverance and optimism — while also […]

Entertainment News

Michael Clarke Duncan and Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth were secretly engaged. The wedding was set for this January. According to TMZ: Sources connected with the couple tell us, Michael and Omarosa kept the engagement a secret from the media … only telling very close friends and family about the pending nuptials. We’re told the couple had just […]

Music

Lil Wayne’s new mixtape “Dedication 4” just hit the streets and the buzz has zeroed in on his Young Money rapper-singer Nicki Minaj, who seems to endorse GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in one of the tracks. “I’m a Republican voting for Mitt Romney, you lazy b—-es is f—ing up the economy,” she raps in the […]

Got questions about the gluten-free diet? Text them to “646464” (OHOHOH). — Many of us deal with abdominal pain, bloating or gas after eating a heavy meal, especially a meal loaded with bread and figure that it just comes with the territory. Some folks, though, have gluten intolerance, a condition in which people have a […]

Huggy Lowdown jokes with the crew about the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention, plus more on TJMS.

Roland Martin talks with "How to Be Black" author Baratunde Thurston about the differences between the RNC and DNC; plus, his "negro-spotting" he did at the RNC which he counted a little over 240 blacks in attendance for the whole event.

Chris Paul warns Paris Jackson about wanting to move to Africa, Shaquille O'Neal's jersey retirement and more on TJMS.

Damon Williams jokes with the crew about today's seriously ignorant headlines including a story about  two thieves who rob a man but leave enough bus fare for the man they robbed.