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Airlines hastily canceled flights in the Northeast Sunday as Hurricane Sandy moved up the coast. The massive storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights. Major carriers such as American Airlines, JetBlue and Delta planned Sunday night to […]

The TJMS interviews Van Jones, President & Co-founder of Rebuild The Dream. The 2012 Presidential Election – What’s At Stake. Listen to it here (Source: Black America Web)

A vigil is set tonight in the Louisiana town of Winnsboro where a 20-year-old black, female college student was set afire Sunday night in a park and her car smeared with racial slurs and the letters KKK. The mother of Sharmeka Moffitt said the young woman is expected to undergo surgery  today at a LSU  […]

My, my, my. Philadelphia, get ready.  Singer Johnny Gill, Tamela and David Mann, U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin, Dr. Ian Smith, Dr. Robin Smith, fitness expert AJ Johnson, and the entire Tom Joyner Morning Show team will be on hand in Philadelphia for the annual “Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day” Health […]

Tony Award-winning actor Ben Vereen has filed for divorce from his wife of 36 years. Court records in Los Angeles show Vereen filed the petition on Thursday, citing irreconcilable differences. The actor-dancer married wife Nancy Bruner Vereen in July 1976, although his filing states the pair separated in March. Read more here (Source: Black America […]

Do you have any new ideas for how to teach saving and investing to our kids? Mellody: It is still stunning to me that stock market fundamentals—actually, even the basics of saving and investing—are not taught in schools. That means the onus lies on parents to teach their kids. One fun way to get started […]

Well here’s something you don’t see every day. If you usually watch CBS’ “The Talk,” don’t think you’re tuning in to the wrong show today. And if you don’t normally watch, you might want to tune in today. The show’s hosts, Julie Chen, Sheryl Underwood, Aisha Tyler, Sara Gilbert and Sharon Osborne, will all launch the […]

In 1819, artist Charles Wilson Peale painted one of the earliest known portraits of a black practicing Muslim. Peale was in town to do a painting of President James Monroe. The name of the man in Peale’s portrait was Yarrow Mamout, and he was an elderly freed slave living in Washington’s Georgetown area. Peale was […]

A woman named Nellie Conley, a.k.a. Madame Sul-Te-Wan, became the first black actress contracted to appear in D.W. Griffith’s controversial 1915 film, “Birth of a Nation.” Her talent career would last for nearly 70 years.   The Louisville, Kentucky native was raised by her widowed single mother, who worked as a washerwoman in the white […]

Retired Lt. Colonel Luke Weathers, a.k.a. “Big Luke” Weathers, was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen and the first black air traffic controller in Memphis, Tennessee. He passed away last Saturday at age 90.   The Grenada, Mississippi native graduated from Xavier University of New Orleans. He was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen from […]

Dr. Helen Octavia Dickens was the first African-American woman to be admitted to the American College of Surgeons. Born to former slaves, her father, Charles Dickens, was a water boy during the civil War. Her mother, Daisy, worked as a servant for the prominent Reynolds family. They would insist that their daughter attend a desegregated […]

The sale of the Philadelphia 76ers has been finalized and the new owners had a press conference on Tuesday. They rolled out the new ownership group – and surprise, surprise: Will Smith is down. They’re headed by Joshua Harris, a New York-based leverage buyout specialist who has family in Philly and went to school there […]