09/03/14 – Jacque Reid discusses the morning’s news headlines including, the second beheading by ISIS, an update on the Ebola outbreak, new guards patrol the city of Chicago and the boxing legend that gets a statue in Philadelphia. Click the link above to hear the details.
Jacque Reid talks to Dana Smith the author of YES! Yoga Has Curves about the relationship between Yoga and black women. “I was really frustrated with what we were seeing as yoga. I wanted to bring light to yoga…everyone can do it. The book was born out of frustration,” Smith says. Click the link above […]
09/02/14 – Jacque Reid discusses the morning’s news headlines on the TJMS including, Wesley Snipes’ latest legal troubles, the three women who smuggled stolen rolexes in their lady parts and the latest NFL player arrested for domestic violence. Click the link above to hear the details!
Jacque Reid talks to Antoinette Tuff, the Georgia bookkeeper that saved over 800 students when she came face to face with an armed gunman at a DeKalb County school a year ago. “It was the beginning of a new journey for me. It was a marvelous thing that God did. I don’t take credit for it,” […]
Jacque Reid talks to Christelyn Karazin, co-author of Swirling and brand ambassador of InterracialDatingCentral.com about interracial dating and how it may feel to be married to someone of the opposite sex while situations like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown are going on in the world. “We have not always seen eye to eye. Not only […]
Jacque Reid talks to Dr. Yamma Brown (James Brown’s daughter) abut her new book, ‘Cold Sweat’, her opinion of the biopic celebrating her father, ‘Get On Up’ and the latest on the James Brown estate. Click the link above to hear the entire interview!
Jacque Reid talks the controversy around mothers naturally feeding their babies in public and the initiative about Black Breastfeeding Week with Kimberly Seals-Allers, a consultant on motherhood and breastfeeding issues. So why all the outcry about a woman feeding their child? “Breastfeeding is a very personal and private issues. Breasts are oversexualized. They’re used to sell […]
Jacque Reid is back on the TJMS discussing the challenges of mental illness and overcoming the battle of depression. Her guest, famed baseball pro Darryl Strawberry didn’t call in, but Reid detailed he and his wife’s very public issue with drugs and mental illness. Click the link above!
Jacque Reid talks about society’s obsession with 50 Shades of Grey but seemingly forgetting that Zane, the original author of erotica, made the genre wildly popular first. Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate Billingsley are changing the game for African American publishers with Brown Girls Publishing, an avenue where writers can get their stories to […]
Jacque Reid talks to Chenoa Maxwell and Tiffany Jones two of the cast members of OWN’s Love In The City. The fate of their reality show hangs in the air do to low ratings. The pair discuss whether positive reality television shows have any room on television. “We think the problem is that women and men aren’t […]
Jacque Reid talks to Tony Porter of a ‘Call To Men’, an organization that works with male domestic abusers about the NFL’s decision on Ray Rice and Stephen A. Smith’s inflammatory statements in reaction. “I appreciate Stephen for apologizing. My concern with the apology is, we see it as re-victimizing the woman when we say there […]
Jacque Reid talks to Sharnesha Taylor the Arizona mom who left her two kids in a hot car while going on a job interview. While charges have been dropped against Taylor, she’ll have to take substance abuse classes along with other court mandated courses. On why she left her kids in the car: “I didn’t […]