Tom Joyner Morning Show

Special guests, music exclusives and national news reports from The Tom Joyner Morning Show.

A crazy day ahead for everyone in Washington D.C. First, we will find out the Supreme Court’s decision on President Obama’s health care law. Also we will learn the outcome of today’s house vote on holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt. Yesterday, the Congressional Black Congress held a “members only” meeting to plot a […]

Previously, we told you about a lawsuit, filed by a group of men wanting to join a sorority. The group known as MIAKA, Men Interested in Alpha Kappa Alpha, are threatening to file a lawsuit claiming discrimination and homophobia. Jacque Reid invited a former member to call in, and the interview was not what you’d […]

Time to pull another story from the WTH files. Adidas is now backtracking from the “Shackle Tennis Shoe”. It has caused lots of controversy and condemnation from many people. Advertising executive, Tom Morrell, called in to the TJMS to give his input to Roland Martin. In case you missed the interview, you can listen below. […]

Looks like there’s another twist in the Trayvon Martin case. Yesterday, Shelli Zimmerman, the wife of George Zimmerman, was arrested and taken to jail by Sanford Police, for perjury. So what does this mean for the case? How will this play out in the courtroom? Natalie Jackson, one of the attorneys for Trayvon Martin, called […]

Dr. Christian Head, the first and only african-american tenure professor at UCLA’s department of head and neck surgery, filed a lawsuit toward the school for being depicted as a “gorilla”. His head was photoshopped on the body of a gorilla with a smile on his face. Also in the picture is a naked caucasian sodomizing […]

We lost the godfather of go-go on Wednesday, and now we lost the queen of disco, yesterday. Donna Summer passed away yesterday from Lung Cancer. She was in Florida at the time of her death. A lot of people were surprised about her death, but sources state she was trying to keep the extent of […]

Sybil Wilkes isn’t a big fan of the VH-1 show, “Basketball Wives“. She’s said it many times, on the TJMS, and she’s even confronted some of the show’s stars. Yesterday, while Tom was reporting about Shaunie O’Neal promising the show to be more positive, Sybil wasn’t having it. That was when she let it all […]

You’ve probably seen or heard of the recent Time’s magazine cover of a 3 year-old sucking on a woman’s breast for her milk. It is a concept, known as extended breastfeeding, that has created a hot debate on the Internet. Jacque Reid invited a black mother, who supports extended breastfeeding, to call in to the […]

Do you think black women, who are overweight, want to be? Author Alice Randall thinks so. She shared her opinion in a New York Times article and the responses have lit up the Internet. In the article, she calls for a “body-culture revolution in Black America” in light of growing obesity and diabetes rates among […]

Big day, yesterday as President Obama became the first sitting U.S. President to endorse same-sex marriage. He addressed this issue yesterday in an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts. The president has switched his positions, on this issue, several times. Originally he was against this issue, until yesterday. His announcement has brought up a huge debate […]

In White Plains, New York, a retired Marine was shot and killed by the police when his medical alert device went off. Now the family attorney, of killed marine Kenneth Chamberlain, is now accusing the police of racism. There are audio recordings, of Police using racial epithets to Kenneth, that are right now being investigated […]

There is new compelling evidence in the Trayvon Martin case. A 16 year-old female friend, of Trayvon, was on the phone with him moments before he was shot. The girl says Trayvon told her he was being followed by a man on a cell phone. He was moving quickly, trying to get away from this […]