Tye Tribbett visited “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” to deliver a live Praise Break, and he gave a word that showed off his preaching skills.…

Rev. Al Sharpton talks about the court’s decision that New York City’s “stop and frisk” practice is unconstitutional.

Like most people, when I heard the story of Usher’s son nearly drowning in a swimming pool my heart immediately ached.  But I don’t think anyone one can relate more to such a tragedy than a parent imagining his or her child in the same situation. My heart also ached for Usher and Tameka.  It […]

Rock-T from “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show“ lands a great punch with this superman joke. Get What You Missed From “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show”…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandra, learn their fates Wednesday when a federal judge in Washington, D.C., sentences the one-time power couple for misusing $750,000 in campaign money on everything from a gold-plated Rolex watch and mink capes to vacations and mounted elk heads. The 48-year-old son of […]

ATLANTA (AP) — American couples are not as infertile as it might seem. Despite a boom in the use of fertility treatments, a new government study shows the percentage of married couples having trouble conceiving has actually dropped slightly in recent years. About 6 percent of married women under 45 failed to get pregnant after […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s governor on Monday quietly signed a measure into law that overhauls the state’s election laws to require government-issued photo IDs at the polls and to shorten early voting, moves that drew stinging criticism and threats of legal action from the NAACP and other groups. The American Civil Liberties Union […]

Roland Martin talks with Representative Alma Adams about the controversial voter i.d. law in North Carolina.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who claims he was punched and kicked by a member of Chris Brown’s entourage during a fight at a recording studio sued the R&B singer on Tuesday for assault and battery. Sha’keir Duarte sued Brown for unspecified damages in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming he suffered a concussion as […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A UPS cargo plane crashed Wednesday morning in an open field just outside an airport in Birmingham, Ala. There were no homes in the immediate area of the crash, said Toni Herrera-Bast, a spokeswoman for Birmingham’s airport authority. The Airbus A300 plane crashed around 5 a.m. CDT on approach to the […]

From his jail cell in Brazil, former Turks and Caicos Premier, and LisaRaye’s ex-husband, Michael Misick, is denying reports that he is negotiating a plea bargain with British and/or American law enforcement authorities that would implicate United States citizens and senior politicians in Jamaica, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Misick wrote a letter to his […]

Tom and the crew open the show talking about Cory Booker’s win in the NJ primary election, Rhode Island’s marijuana law and Hugh Douglas’ firing.