Your local barbershop probably consists of TVs broadcasting ESPN, animated banter on almost any subject and music to match the vibe of the shop. The…
Your local barbershop probably consists of TVs broadcasting ESPN, animated banter on almost any subject and music to match the vibe of the shop. The…
Rapper/actor Ja Rule has another hit on his hands but this time, it’s not a movie or a film. Rule, the rapper from Queens, whose hits “Holla Holla,” Can I Get A…””Put It On Me,” “Ain’t It Funny” and “I’m Real” shot him to the top of the hip-hop stratosphere in the 2000’s has just […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton has meant many things to many people. The wife, mother, lawyer, First Lady, Senator, presidential candidate, Secretary of State and soon to be grandmother, shares much of her journey in the book Hard Choices, a memoir. She talked to the Tom Joyner Morning Show today and while she didn’t share any future […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Terry McMillan is ending a long-term relationship — with her publisher. The author of such best-sellers as Waiting to Exhale and Disappearing Acts has left Viking after 25 years and signed with Crown Publishers for her next novel. Crown announced Monday that McMillan’s next book will be called “I Almost Forgot […]
If you’ve been wondering what Levar Burton is up to, he’ll be hitting your TV screens again on the third season of the TNT drama Perception. This season, his role has been upgraded to that of a regular cast member. The show is a crime drama where a schizophrenic neuropsychiatrist, Dr. Daniel J. Pierce, played […]
Toni Braxton’s new book Unbreak My Heart details the real struggle behind her glamorous life. In her book, Braxton spares little detail about the challenges she’s faced, from getting an abortion while engaged to her future husband Keri Lewis, to her numerous health challenges to growing up in a restrictive church. But on the Tom […]
If you haven’t already read Walter Mosley, step away from the computer and go check out one of his Easy Rawlins mysteries. The period detective series, set in 1940’s Los Angeles, is Mosley’s best known work. The 1995 movie Devil In A Blue Dress, starring Denzel Washington is the film version of one of Mosley’s […]
For iPhone: In T.D. Jakes new book Instinct: The Power To Release Your Inborn Drive he suggest that many people are unhappy because they don’t follow their instinctive paths or drives to success and fulfillment.He wants more people to be fulfilled b doing the things that they are truly suited for. He talked to the Tom […]
For iPhone: Part of my research this week for hosting The View was to read a book called The Confidence Code. It was written by journalists Katty Kay and Claire Shipman. Shipman was to be a guest on the show. Quite frankly, I wasn’t looking forward to reading the book because it appeared to be […]
Phillip Bailey is not here for today’s songwriting. And why should he be? This is the man who wrote songs like “Shining Star”, “September” and “Fantasy” with his band Earth, Wind, and Fire. He says that he used to play around with lyrics with his bandmates, and they’d laugh at what they came up with. […]
Rosie Perez had a bumpy road to Hollywood. In Handbook for An Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and my Crazy Mother and Still Came Out Smiling (With Good Hair) the native New Yorker talks about her struggles with a mentally ill mother, being the “affair baby” of her parents who were both married […]
