Tom Joyner Morning Show

17 year-old Trayvon Martin, from Florida, was walking home a month ago. While he was eating some snacks, as he walked home in his gated-community, a 28 year-old confronts him. After he confronts Trayvon, he kills him. When the police showed up, he claimed to have shot Trayvon in “self-defense”. So they handcuffed the shooter, […]

Gas prices have been a big story recently, as prices shot up ten cents last week. Being that it’s election season, Republican candidates have been using this issue as ammunition against the president. But is the president to blame for the spike in gas prices? This morning, Roland Martin spoke with Washington Post correspondent Michael […]

This morning Tyler Perry came on the TJMS to talk about his new movie “Good Deeds”. During the show, Tom was telling a story about a Chicago pastor who’s living on top of a roof to raise money for a new community center. When telling this story, Tyler had no idea about this pastor or […]

It looks like Bobby Brown will not be appearing tonight at the U.S. Bank Arena. He will be attending the funeral services for Whitney Houston. Whitney’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina, will be at the funeral too. After Bobbi Kristina’s nervous breakdown, people have been asking where has Bobby Brown been in consoling her? Kevin Frazier of […]

This weekend, a huge discussion, on Twitter, was brought up about a Time magazine article titled, “‘The Help’ Is The Most Loathsome Movie In America”. It was written by Toure, who a lot of people are criticizing him for slamming the movie’s actresses, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer. In his article, Toure was trying to […]

This week, the nation mourned the passing of legendary entertainer, Don Corneilus. This week, he was reportedly found dead, in his home, after a self-inflicted gun shot wound. Tony Corneilus, the son of the late Soul Train host, called in to the TJMS to reflect on his late father. To hear the interview from this […]

The Susan G. Komen foundation, responsible for their fundraising to prevent breast cancer, has chosen to defund Planned Parenthood. Their decision was based on a federal regulation that if a group is under investigation by congress, then that organization can’t be funded. This decision stirred up quite a debate on Twitter with many women outraged […]

In Tennessee, tea party groups are lobbying their local boards of education to downplay , and in some cases remove, slavery from their textbooks. They feel that the founding founders are getting unfair criticism in the history books. According to reports, Hal Rounds, the Fayette County attorney and spokesman for the group, said during a […]

Has anything really changed since the days of American slavery when dark-skinned Blacks were made to suffer even greater indignities than their lighter skinned counterparts? Ask today’s dark Black woman. It’s a divide that’s rarely brought up in the mainstream: the difference between those with light skin versus dark skin. It stirs up controversy when […]

Yesterday there was a large online protest against two congressional bills that critics claim would be an overreach of power by the government. The Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, also known as PIPA, would empower companies to have web sites shut down without proving copyright infringement accusations in […]

The death of singer, Vesta Williams, was noted by bloggers as one of the most shocking deaths of 2011. Many people to this day are figuring out whether it was a suicide, a drug overdose, or it was an enlarged heart as was reported last year. Vesta’s manager, Iris Perkins, called in to the TJMS […]

This morning, Roland Martin reported, on the TJMS, that Florida A&M is creating an independent committee to study hazing. The university will also create a memorial dedicated to fallen FAMU band-member, Robert Champion. Is that enough to pay respect him? One idea brought up, that raised eyebrows, was to suspend the band for the rest […]