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Racists are marching – again. White supremacists are making good on their pledge to rally their hateful troops through the South: The next demonstration, entitled “White Lives Matter,” is scheduled for Shelbyville, Tennessee, population 20,000. After the deadly protests by neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia in August, white supremacists vowed to continue protesting the removal of […]
Every one who’s been on this ride with the Tom Joyner Morning Show for the last close to 25 years knows I like to do things Big. We started big from day one with a live in-house band (Uncle Butchie and the Live House) led by the late Morris “Butch” Stewart and our inaugural guest […]
A 34-year-old cold case involving the racially motivated murder of a 23-year-old black man has been solved with the arrest of five white people – including two police officers who allegedly tried to cover up the homicide. Timothy Coggins was found dead on a power line on Oct. 9, 1983 in a small Georgia town […]
“Racism still exists and it’s very serious and it’s right in your neighborhood” – Mikea Eberhart Mikea Eberhart never thought she would be harassed by racists just a few blocks from her home. Until this week. Eberhart, who is nine months pregnant, said she was walking in her Dearborn Heights, Michigan neighborhood to try to […]
“No you definitely don’t need to pretend to be a slave but it was another hands on experiment used to simulate slavery. Definitely not an effective way and there’s better alternatives than that.” – Eighth-grade student Kaleem Syed. Students at Whitney High School were enslaved for a day. Administrators at the California high school made […]
Kwame Kilpatrick is asking a federal judge to expunge $1.5 million in restitution Kilpatrick has been ordered to pay the city of Detroit. This could be a fool’s errand. “There is NO LOSS TO THE CITY OF DETROIT IN THIS CASE WHATSOEVER!” Kilpatrick wrote to U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds, according to The Detroit Free […]
Perhaps Jemele Hill’s only infraction was pontificating about politics on Twitter. The outspoken ESPN host shared her truth about President Donald Trump on social media, which led to the White House calling for Hill to be fired. “I think that’s one of the more outrageous comments that anyone could make, and certainly something that I […]
I hope you’ve had a chance to see the Procter & Gamble video called “The Talk.” It reminds us that African-Americans have to have discussions that some families don’t necessarily need to have – like talks about being judged by their skin color by white people and sadly, by Black people, too. In fact, colorism, […]
“I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger” – Harriet Tubman The image of Harriet Tubman that is expected to be featured on the $20 bill has hit a colossal snag: The Trump administration. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is not endorsing the Obama administration-sanctioned plan to replace President Andrew […]
It’s been 12 years this week since Hurricane Katrina brought death, devastation, and destruction to New Orleans and other parts of coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. The majority of survivors evacuated to Texas, but they also moved to other parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and Arkansas. led to But we […]
For part of the country, the school year has already started but in the northeast, parents are putting the finishing touches on preparing their young ones for entry or reentry into academic life. Personally, it marks my son’s first day of school and I’m full of pride and terror. While veteran parents see the first […]
Darryl Chamberlain was determined to create a youth orchestra come hell or high water. In these uncertain times, where public school budget cuts are impacting African American students perhaps more than ever before, Chamberlain, a history teacher in Kansas City, Missouri, began thinking out of the box. I’m glad he did. Chamberlain wants to change […]
