Originals
Sybil Wilkes discusses today’s news headlines including the latest on the George Zimmerman trial.
She had blonde hair, fair skin and blue eyes. She looked nothing like little Aliya and Laila Crawley, who were affectionately called “pretty brown girls” since birth by their father Corey. Still, the then five-year-old and six-year-old sisters and their African American friends wanted her: the pretty white doll. Shocked and disheartened by what should […]
Okay, please forgive me but enough already, it’s just too much. No more Harlem Shake, it’s gotta stop! And I know we did our own Hardest Working Harlem Shake here with the TJMS crew for all to see on Black America Web, but it’s getting out of control and no, I don’t want to be […]
Dear Tom, Nadina Flowers is a graduate of Southern University’s class of 1978. Everybody there calls her Mrs. Flowers. She has been there ever since her own daughter attended kindergarten…and This spring, her little girl will be graduating from Southern University…then in the fall, it’s her 18-year-old son’s turn to attend Southern. Mrs. Flowers is […]
Ten years before he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life was almost taken by a woman named Izola Ware Curry. Curry was a 42-year-old mentally ill woman who stabbed Dr. King on September 20, 1958. The disturbed woman used a letter opener to brutally wound Dr. King during his New York book signing […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: BlackAmericaWeb.com is starting a new occasional feature called “Five Minutes with the President.” We’re asking African Americans to tell us what they would ask President Barack Obama if they had five minutes with him in the White House. In this era of fiscal uncertainty, high unemployment, a congressional sequester that is threatening to […]
Dominique doesn’t understand why Michael Jordan‘s alleged baby-mama would wait 16 years to come out of hiding.
Huggy Lowdown jokes with the crew about Terrence Howard‘s love scene with Oprah Winfrey in the film “The Butler”, the winter weather in Washington D.C. and more on the TJMS.
Chris Paul thinks stripping is “sequester proof”, that Hugo Chavez did something right during his dictatorship and Jay-Z is wrong about music NOT segregating people. ——————— This is Chris Paul from the TJMS running through the top stories in roughly sixty seconds with The Morning Minute. The President/Dictator of Venezuela Hugo Chavez died yesterday at […]
Rev. Al Sharpton talks with the crew about the current fight to protect our voting rights and how it relates to the current financial problems happening in Detroit.
Roland Martin talks with Detroit Free Press writer Rochelle Riley about Detroit’s financial problems and the need for a city manager. Read her full article in the Detroit Free Press here.
When you hear that a football star has written and produced a movie, you’re probably not thinking it’s one you should run out and see. Well, Baltimore Ravens All-Pro linebacker Terrell Suggs might be the exception. With a fresh Super Bowl ring in hand, maybe an Oscar is next? Well, no, but his movie “The […]
