After being taken to task by Tom Joyner on his blog and making headlines nationwide for his comments about fat people, Tyrese apologized via his Twitter account. This morning on the  “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” Tyrese apologized again, saying his comments were not specifically directed at Black women. “I want to go on the record and say this. I […]

Around here, we call it a “Pull Up Pal.” It’s your “boy,” your “girl,” your “bestie, BFF, roomie,” anybody who cares enough about you to turn you around when you’re about to say or do something really stupid. Man, could Tyrese have used one last week when he made some really mean comments about overweight […]

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Listen to find out why Tom Joyner has made the list of nominees for the “Bama of the Week.”

It was the saddest news of the week: three dozen public school educators were indicted in a huge cheating scandal. Included in the indictment are the former superintendent of schools and several high-level administrators and principals. If you haven’t heard about it, they are accused of giving or changing answers on tests after they were […]

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“Let’s save jail for the real criminals, these teachers and administrators are not criminals” Tom Joyner explains as he gives his opinion on what should happen to the 35 teachers and administrators who are embroiled in a teaching scandal in Atlanta.

There are two sides to every story, I know.  So, when I hear about the in-fighting, the lawsuits and what appears to be greed coming out of the MLK family’s camp, I’m trying to keep an open mind.  But it isn’t easy. The latest is that the surviving children of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. […]

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Huggy Lowdown can’t believe that Kordell Stewart is divorcing “the fine” Porsha Stewart. Plus, find out why Tom Joyner and J. Anthony Brown made the list.

Tom, Sybil, Dominique and comedian Sommore start Friday off right with Tom’s solo “Man Dance”, D.L. Hughley’s “Dancing With the Stars” performance,

There are a lot of lessons to be learned from the debacle resulting in the changes in the parent PLUS loan program. The problem is that all of a sudden, loans that were easy to acquire are coming under more scrutiny.  Poor credit ratings by parents are taken into account and sadly, we all know […]

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A loyal Tom Joyner Morning Show listener created this quilt out of all of Tom Joyner’s President Obama t-shirts.  (photo above) During the election and then re-election of President Barack Obama, Tom wore a shirt almost everyday to show support for Obama. Of course, Tom has been a stark supporter of the President in various […]

One of Roland Martin’s recent guests was a mom who was upset with her five-year-old son’s elementary school because she thought the lesson on slavery went too far. Parts of it included a take–home survey with questions about slavery, a coloring book page depicting a slave auction and, the biggest offender, according to his mom, […]

Eunique Jones Gibson is using her photography skills to celebrate Black History Month with her ‘Because of Them, We Can’ campaign which depicts past legends and living news makers using young children to depict them.