TJMS’ own Sybil Wilkes interviews Wil Haygood, writer at The Washington Post and author of “The Butler: A Witness to History.” The book details the life of long-time White House butler, Eugene Allen. Allen served as White House butler from the Truman administration to the Reagan administration.

DaVita Vance-Cooks was just named the nation’s public printer, making her both the first female and the first African American to lead the Government Printing Office in the agency’s 152-year history. Vance-Cooks’ appointment was approved by unanimous vote in the U.S. Senate. President Barack Obama nominated her for the position earlier this year. DaVita Vance-Cooks […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper and actor 50 Cent stood silently before a judge on Monday as his attorney entered his plea of not guilty to domestic violence and vandalism charges involving an ex-girlfriend who is the mother of his child. The performer, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, was given a long list of […]

A Florida school bus driver, John Moody, 64, in Pinellas County, was witness to a horrific beating of one student by three older, bigger boys on his bus from the dropout detention school where he picks up students, according to CNN. Moody was interviewed and said that he too feared the boys and was in […]

Highlights: This is a rear-wheel drive luxury sedan available in a variety of engine configurations: a 6-cylinder, a hybrid or an 8-cylinder. In 2014, the M goes through a name change, returning as the Q. Test vehicle’s MSRP: $70,195 (Base M starts at $49,605 ) Seating Capacity:  5 Standard Safety Features: airbags (front, rear, side […]

NEW YORK (AP) — An NBC News reporter, Chris Hansen, best known for his “Dateline NBC” reports featuring him confronting would-be child sex predators, is leaving the network. Chris Hansen stepped from the shadows in the long-running “To Catch a Predator” series to confront men lured to houses thinking they were about to meet minors […]

DETROIT (AP) — More than a dozen candidates were running in Tuesday’s primary for Detroit mayor, an office with little immediate power because most operations are being run by an emergency manager seeking to take the city into bankruptcy. None of the candidates has name recognition outside the city like current Mayor Dave Bing, a […]

A woman who recently was crowned Miss Riverton after wowing the judges on the piano is accused of exercising a more sinister talent — cooking up homemade bombs and throwing them from a car. Kendra McKenzie Gill and three others were arrested Saturday after allegedly tossing makeshift explosives in neighborhoods at least nine times. Police […]

HBO debuted Jay Z’s 10-minute “performance art movie” “Picasso Baby” last night, and we must say it’s pretty fantastic! The Mark Romanek-directed clip shows the…

This week, Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant was among 11 honorees to receive the White House’s “Champions of Change for Tech Inclusion” award. The…

Hollywood husband-and-wife duo Robin Thicke and Paula Patton are both on top of their game right now. Along with raising their 3-year-old son Julian, Paula…