TV & Film

What happens when you mix the formula from “The View” with five successful African-American women in entertainment? You get Magic Johnson’s new talk show “Exhale!” The business mogul has just greenlit a new series on his Apsire network, which will star producer and “Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl” creator Issa Rae, former ESSENCE editor-in-chief Angela Burt-Murray, […]

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Comedian D.L. Hughley couldn’t wait until Friday to comment about Jason Collins‘ coming out, so he called the TJMS to give his interesting take on the “too tall to be gay” athlete’s big announcement. —————- TOM JOYNER :  DL Hughley.  DL!  DL:  Hey, man.  How you doing, man? TOM JOYNER :  Man, I’m good. J. […]

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Selita Ebanks has left the runway to conquer a designer showroom. After years of rocking the Victoria’s Secret catwalk she’s getting her own reality show based on her new life as a designer. We caught up with the 30-year-old Caribbean beauty and she dished on her next venture. Originally seen on HelloBeautiful.com 

Chris Bosh, Jermaine Jackson, Terrell Owens, Usher, and Halle Berry are all either rich and/or famous people embroiled in high-profile, sometimes bitter child support and custody battles. And just as I was about to hit send, a new alert hit my email box.  The headline reads, “Steve Nash child support: NBA star contests support payments […]

Entertainment

It’s prom season and two of Hollywood’s most successful businessmen recently wished their daughters off to a great night. Magic Johnson’s daughter Elisa and LL Cool J’s daughter Samaria went to their senior prom last Friday. The two girls are not only attend the same high school, but called each other BFFs. Magic shared a […]

News, Top News

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The former neighborhood watch leader charged with fatally shooting Trayvon Martin told a judge Tuesday that he agrees with his defense attorneys’ decision not to seek an immunity hearing under the state’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law. Under questioning from Circuit Judge Debra Nelson, Zimmerman repeatedly said “yes” to a series […]

TV & Film

GSN announced that they have another Christian-based show in the works. The new program will be called ‘It Takes a Church’. The new show slated to join the GSN titled ‘It Takes a Church’ will be a dating show with a twist. It’s not like the Dating Game of decades ago where a woman or man blindly […]

TV & Film

Jamie Foxx is in negotiations to star opposite Oscar nominee Quvenzhane Wallis in Sony’s forthcoming reboot of “Annie.” The update of the classic comic strip-turned-musical would see Foxx as a character named Benjamin Stacks, a variation of the Daddy Warbucks personage, who takes in the spunky orphan girl being played by Wallis. Foxx has received […]

Entertainment News

Cicely Tyson, Patina Miller, Billy Porter and Valisia LeKae are among the nominees up for a 2013 Tony Award. Tyson received a nod for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her starring role in “The Trip to Bountiful,” which itself was nominated for Best Revival of a Play. Pippen and its star Miller each […]

If You Missed It

This is Chris Paul from the TJMS running through the top stories in roughly sixty seconds with The Morning Minute. An NBA big man has come out of the closet.  Jason Collins is now the first active athlete in a professional sport to admit to being gay.  And for all of you who believed that […]

Top News

ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta woman has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for pimping a teenage girl. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports 25-year-old Jessica Loren Posey was sentenced Monday and is ordered to serve five years of supervised release. The woman is also ordered to pay $1,200 in restitution to the victim, […]

National News

CINCINNATI (AP) — An honors student at an all-male Catholic high school tried to commit suicide in his first-period classroom Monday, police said, critically wounding himself with a gunshot and sending other students scrambling for cover. La Salle High School west of Cincinnati was locked down until after police arrived and determined there was no […]