It was so different back then. No Twitter, no Facebook, there weren’t even any smart phones.  So when news of the storm hit while we were taping our TV show in Los Angeles, we found out the old-fashioned way…on the news. We loved New Orleans, and all the cities on the Gulf Coast.  Since the […]

Tom Joyner

As we kick off Black History Month I’ve decided to take a look at the State of Black America as it relates to entertainment–movies and TV in particular.  Why?  a. Because it’s my blog and b. because I think these are two areas of media that are outshining the rest. But we can’t really praise […]

Entertainment, Newsletter, Tom Joyner

This is time we celebrate the birth date of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Over the span of a little more than 50 years Dr. King went from a civil rights leader to a larger than life hero.  And now thanks to people from his past coming forward, Broadway plays like “The Mountain Top,” and […]

It seems like every day we get a study about a new food that causes cancer. It used to stress me out, but then I remembered, stress kills you too.  So does the air we breathe and the water we drink out the tap, the water hose and even the bottle, if it’s made out […]