Tom Joyner

R&B veterans Bobby Brown and Tank officially join the list of performers at the upcoming 2024 Tom Joyner Foundation Fantastic Voyage Cruise!

Media icon Tom Joyner stopped by 'Sherri' for a candid talk, including how he almost joined The Commodores and Fantastic Voyage 2023 details.

It started with my mom, Buddy, and later my Aunt Nettie…the two most influential women in my early life. Decades later, I still depend on women to make my life better. That’s immediately evident should you drop by the Red Velvet Cake Studio or our Reach Media offices, where 80 percent of the people who […]

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College homecomings and encouraging studies about African-Americans graduating from high school being more likely to attend college than other races, was overshadowed recently by more school shootings and other violence on or near the campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. According to a Nielsen study on the changing profile of Black consumers, 70.9 percent […]

It was so different back then. No Twitter, no Facebook, there weren’t even any smart phones.  So when news of the storm hit while we were taping our TV show in Los Angeles, we found out the old-fashioned way…on the news. We loved New Orleans, and all the cities on the Gulf Coast.  Since the […]

    4/17/15- While Tom, Sybil and J. Anthony Brown are on the ‘Fantastic Voyage’, Skip Murphy is live in the Red Velvet Cake Studio with comedian, actor and writer Chris Spencer. He’ll be at the Arlington Improv all this weekend.

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As we kick off Black History Month I’ve decided to take a look at the State of Black America as it relates to entertainment–movies and TV in particular.  Why?  a. Because it’s my blog and b. because I think these are two areas of media that are outshining the rest. But we can’t really praise […]

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This is time we celebrate the birth date of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Over the span of a little more than 50 years Dr. King went from a civil rights leader to a larger than life hero.  And now thanks to people from his past coming forward, Broadway plays like “The Mountain Top,” and […]

I’ve spent much of my career working with Black comedians – some of them A-listers who have risen from the comedy clubs up the food chain to cable TV, talk show host/movie star, network sitcom star/radio show host and back down again. For everyone’s who’s really made it, I can name you five that should have […]