Ty Simpson from Spectrum Management, LLC presented the Tom Joyner Foundation a check for $50,000, Marc Battle, Vice President of Pepco Region and a 1998 UDC graduate donated $5,000 and the 3rd district of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. donated $2500. Click the link above to hear the entire interview! Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.

  Congratulations to JoAnna Jones on being named the Tom Joyner Foundation 2015 Full Ride Scholar! The North Carolina native will attend Winston Salem State University where she’ll major in Nursing. Click the link above to hear her incredible story!    

  2/27/15- Albert “Berte” Mitchell and the Winston Salem State University National Alumni present a $2500 check to the Tom Joyner Morning Foundation at the CIAA Tournament. The North Carolina school will be the Tom Joyner Foundation March school of the month. In addition, a representative from South Carolina State University clears the air about the […]

Entertainment, Entertainment News, If You Missed It

For iPhone:   Motown: the Musical has been one of Broadway’s biggest recent hits, putting the music and life of Motown and its founder Berry Gordy on display. Actress Marva Hicks is part of the cast that makes the show what it is. She plays both Berry Gordy’s sister Esther,  and Stevie Wonder’s mama Lula and […]

On Friday, October 17, 2014 Tom Joyner will host Tom Joyner Foundation Night at Motown The Musical in New York City at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. See a great show at a fantastic discount* with a portion of the proceeds from your ticket purchases going to the Foundation. AND, Tom will host a special interview, live onstage, following […]

HBCU News & Commentary

Nicholas McDonald, a senior at Norfolk State University,  has been named this week’s Tom Joyner Foundation “Hercules Scholar”.  At Norfolk State University  Nicholas  is majoring in Mass Communication and is recognized as an honor student with a 3.72 GPA . Nicholas uses his time on campus not only in the classroom but also with the NSU Television Station. His […]

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“WE ARE NSU” Student : Derek Smith Major : History Hometown : Chesapeake, Virginia Derek Smith  a senior,  from Chesapeake, Virginia has been named this week’s Tom Joyner Foundation “Hercules Scholar”.  At Norfolk State University Derek  is majoring in History  and is recognized as an honor student with a 3.69 GPA . He plans to be […]

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Norfolk State University has been named the Tom Joyner Foundation ‘School of the Month’ for September. The university, located in Norfolk, Va., has 6,728 students, offering more than 50 degree programs at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. On its 134-acre campus, there are 35 buildings, including state-of-the-art technology centers, a 28,000-seat football stadium and […]

National News

Titus Ziegler, of Atlanta, Ga., is the winner of the Tom Joyner Foundation® “Full Ride Scholarship” that will cover full tuition, room and board (on-campus only) and books up to 10 semesters. Tom Joyner, the Foundation’s chairman and founder, announced his scholarship today during the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” which airs in markets across the […]

Yup, pimpin’ Katt Williams is on the Fantastic Voyage 2014, set to sail from Miami on the Carnival Conquest from March 16-23.  We know you didn’t believe that a man with hair as groomed as Katt’s would willingly subject it to water and air but he’s proven you wrong. He’s aboard and he’s says his […]

The long departed but much beloved Showtime series “Soul Food” that took up where the movie left off with a new cast ran for five seasons, the only Black drama on broadcast television to ever do so. Boris Kodjoe, Malinda Williams, Nicole Ari Parker, Rockmund Dunbar, and Darrin Henson, who played Lem, have all moved […]

If you like to get down to dancehall, call Shaggy to the party. The Fantastic Voyage 2014 did and Shaggy’s headed aboard the Carnival Conquest setting sail from Miami March 16-23. He joins Katt Williams. George Clinton and Ice Cube, Chante Moore and Nelly, already announced. “I’m going to make The Fantastic Voyage a bombastic […]