Originals

If You Missed It, Little Known Black History Facts, Originals

In Richmond, Va, there are plans to build a minor league baseball park near and on top of a historic slave burial ground and former marketplace. The new park for the Flying Squirrels team would mean the construction of a 7,200 seat stadium, a new hotel, over 700 new apartments and a grocery store. It […]

If You Missed It, Originals

03/04/14- Tom and the crew open the show talking about Mardi Gras, Barkhad Abdi’s budding career, Pope Francis dropping the F-bomb and one Kenyan pastor’s strange request for female members of his congregation.

At this point, anyone can get a reality TV show, and it looks like nobody’s tired of them yet. In an obvious nod to the successful TLC show “Dance Moms,” Lifetime is premiering their brand new reality show Bring It. Set in the world of hip-hop dance majorettes – which we frankly didn’t even know […]

Black students at the University of Michigan are describing their college experience at the prestigious Ann Arbor institution with one provocative word: Racism. “Our list of demands came out of a tense racial climate that is being experienced not only at Michigan, but at college campuses around the United States,” Tyrell Collier, the president of the […]

If You Missed It, Originals

03/03/14- Comedian G-Thang jokes with the crew about being single, the 2014 Fantastic Voyage and dating women who like rich men!

03/03/14- Comedian Huggy Lowdown jokes with the crew about the 86th Academy Awards.

03/03/14- Roland Martin talks with Paul Goodloe about the weather across the nation.

03/03/14- Comedian Chris Paul runs through the day’s hottest topics including the latest on the 2014 Oscars and much more!

By now you have seen Ellen DeGeneres’ selfie that crashed Twitter but did you notice J. Anthony Brown was in the photo?

Money

In today’s “Money Mondays” segment, Mellody Hobson discusses renting versus purchasing a home. You are here this morning to help our listeners think about renting or owning? I am, Tom! Since the housing collapse, there has been a lot of volatility in the housing markets, and a lot of discussion about whether it is smarter […]

Al Roker is in a bad mood and he can’t hide it. He got into a feud with the Mayor of New York over a “Snow Day,” His angry Tweet to Mayor De Blasio criticized him for keeping the schools open during the city’s Nor’easter that resulted in dangerous road conditions and all that comes […]

03/03/14- Sybil Wilkes discusses today’s news headlines including the latest on the 2014 Academy Awards.