Every Thursday is Mother’s Day on the Tom Joyner Morning Show®! Listeners take the time each week to write about a special woman in their lives that has truly made a difference. If you know a special lady that makes life better for you and your family, write Tom and tell him about her and […]

Remember when you were a child and there was a special wish you had for Christmas? The Tom Joyner Morning Show® is making your grown-up dreams come true by granting wishes that will make someone happy throughout the year — not just at Christmas time. Every Wednesday is Christmas! Thanks to McDonalds, each week a […]

Recognizing the contributions of good men is what Real Fathers Real Men is all about! By sending letters, listeners make Tom aware of a special, good man that is providing a good example and making a difference in the lives of others. Each Tuesday morning on the Tom Joyner Morning Show® honors one of these […]

The ladies of “Basketball Wives” Miami is threatening to shut it down unless VH1 pays up. According to TMZ,filming began last week for the 5th season, but Shaunie O’Neal, Evelyn Lozada, Tami Roman and Suzie Ketcham contracts are not locked in. According to their sources: The “Wives” are in the process of renegotiating their contracts […]

Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater has long had a hand in creating superstars, both through the theater itself and its long-running televised talent shows. Now BET has a hand in the Apollo legend, creating the latest incarnation of the famed talent show. The new show “Apollo Live” takes up where “Showtime at the Apollo” left off, […]

A Texas teacher is under fire after she hung a classroom flag upside down after the election. Harker Heights High School parents said their children came home the day after the election complaining that their history teacher, Sharon Smitherman was so upset about the results that she hung the classroom flag upside down. “After the […]

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. secretly returned to work, apparently last month, for a short time, according to Chicago’s WLS-TV. This is the first revelation that Jackson has been well enough to conduct any public business since first being treated for bipolar disorder more than six months ago. According to his chief of staff, he also […]

A 17-year-old is suffering from a fairy-tale-like disease. Imagine yourself sleeping your way through the holidays. That’s what Nicole Delien experienced one year by sleeping 64 days. The Pennsylvania teen has been diagnosed with a rare sleeping condition known as Kleine-Levine or “Sleeping Beauty Syndrome” causing her to sleep 18 to 19 hours a day. […]

A Texas man makes robbing banks a family affair. Ronald Scott Catt and his two adult children were arrested in connection to robbing several Texas banks as well as possibly five banks in Oregon. Fort Bend County sheriffs recognized the 50-year-old man and his son 20-year-old son Hayden Scott Catt from a surveillance video. In […]

BOSTON (AP) — A transgender inmate who won a court order for taxpayer-funded sex-change surgery has no medical need for further electrolysis treatments, a prison department psychiatrist testified Monday. Dr. Robert Diener testified during a hearing in U.S. District Court on Michelle Kosilek's request to have additional hair-removal treatments. Diener, chief psychiatrist for the state […]

Just when the voice of Elmo, Kevin Clash, thought it was safe to resume his life, he gets the bomb dropped on him one more time. Now, Sheldon Stephens, who accused Clash of having sex with him while he was underage, wants to recant his recant, so to speak. He’s back to standing by his […]

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — President Barack Obama spoke to hundreds of students, officials and former generals in long-closed Myanmar about freedom and the importance of finding strength in diversity. But for some, the more significant message came from what he did, not what he said. Instead of traveling to the isolated capital, Naypyitaw, Obama became […]