For some of us, it’s hard to believe that 20 years have passed.  This past October marked the 20th “anniversary” of Anita Hill testifying at the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearing to the United States Supreme Court, thus stepping out and up to put a face on sexual harassment in the workplace. Timing is a curious […]

Sybil interviews illustrator and author Kadir Nelson about his new book, “Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans.” Click Play to Listen!  From Amazon.com The story of America and African Americans is a story of hope and inspiration and unwavering courage. But it is also the story of injustice; of a country […]

Sybil interviews the former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, about his rise and fall in the political world. Click Play to Listen! Part 1.  Part 2.  Part 3.  Click to purchase Surrendered! The Rise, Fall and Revelation of Kwame Kilp

On the morning of March 16, 2005, Daphne’s day begins like every other day as she heads to her job as a radio personality. Without warning, her life dramatically changes with the sudden and tragic death of her husband … life interrupted. Daphne’s frank and brutally honest portrayal of her story expands the boundaries of […]

The TJMS’ own Sybil Wilkes talks with Leith Mullins, the wife of the late author Manning Marable, about her husband’s controversial new book Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Click Play to Listen!  Book Review from Amazon.com: Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting […]

The former child star—best known as Willis Jackson on Diff’rent Strokes—shares the shocking but inspirational details of his struggles with addiction, brushes with the law, and fierce fight to carve a path through the darkness and find his true identity. Now, for the first time, Bridges opens up about his life before and after Diff’rent […]