Starting tonight at 8 p.m., Tatyana Ali is back for another season of the TV One original series “Love That Girl,” the comedy produced by comedian Martin Lawrence. Ali plays Tyana Jones, a young divorcee who returns to Southern California for a fresh start and reconnects with old friends. In the season finale in April, […]
In the summer of 1934, when Michael Luther King, Jr., was five years old, his father, Mike Sr., left his church in Atlanta and three children for a summer-long tour of Europe, Africa and the Holy Land. On his way back home he stopped in Berlin to attend a Baptist World Alliance meeting. It was […]
A lot of women love their high heels, and there are plenty of cross-dressing men who swear by them as well. One of those is Atlanta hairstylist Derek J., who may have inspired the new Morehouse dress code (men attending the school can no longer wear heels or any blatantly “feminine” clothing.) He’s also inspired […]
In 1944, 14-year-old George Junius Stinney, Jr. became the youngest person in the U.S. executed for a crime in the in the 20th century. The 5-foot-1, 95-lb. African American boy was sent to the electric chair for allegedly killing two young white girls – 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames – by […]
Nicole Ari Parker has an enviable life. Not only is she married to gorgeous fellow actor Boris Kodjoe – who we all saw fall in love with her on the hit series “Soul Food” – but she has two beautiful children with him and her own career. The Baltimore-born beauty is heading to Atlanta to […]
The African Meeting House, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the country’s oldest black church. The meeting house was opened Dec. 6, 1806 for the free black community of the famous Beacon Hill. The African Meeting House was the center for black progression for centuries. It was where William Lloyd Garrison helped to plan the […]
African-Americans account for 40 percent of the people who have been executed this year by state governments, though they represent only about 12 percent of the total U.S. population, according to a BlackAmericaWeb.com analysis. The death of Troy Davis, the Georgia man who was executed by lethal injection late Wednesday following three stays of […]
With so much debasing theatrics on all those “housewives and wifeys” reality dramas, it’s hard to remember that there are black women in the public eye who are great role models for their athletic prowess. Where’s the reality show featuring dynamic black female athletes? ‘Cause they’re definitely getting short shrift. With the Summer Olympic games […]
Harry T. Moore of Brevard County, Florida has been called the first civil rights martyr. He founded the first branch of the NAACP in his state and later became its state secretary. Employed as a school principal, Moore spent his life investigating lynchings, filing lawsuits against voting rights cases and fighting for black teachers. Moore […]
On the eve of her 10th CD release, Mary J. Blige is winning. The 40-year-old singer was long ago anointed the queen of hip-hop soul, and it’s a honor she’s deserved, racking up a score of platinum CDs and inserting herself firmly into the pop culture firmament. But what is it about Blige that makes […]
Emlen “The Gremlin” Tunnell of Pennsylvania was the first black and first defensive player to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1967. He was known as one of the greatest defensive backs in the history of the game. Like all the best players of his era, Tunnell suffered through severe injuries, […]
President Barack Obama talked with the “TJMS” about Hurricane Irene, the Martin Luther King Memorial, jobs and health care Tuesday, August 30th. In case you may have missed it, audio and transcript of the conversation are provided below! Click here for Part Two of the “TJMS” interview with the president. The following is a transcript of “The Tom Joyner […]
