Music

The Essence Festival 2017 lineup is here and it's pretty fantastic.

News

The man who shot and killed ex-NFL player Joe McKnight has finally been arrested for manslaughter.

Toya Wright has had a pretty rough week following the deaths of her brothers Rudy and Josh, but the reality star is getting all the love she needs from her girls.

Judging by her Instagram, Solange Knowles was super excited for Mardi Gras in New Orleans, yet the excitement was short-lived after she lost her wedding ring.

New Orleans lawmakers are in the midst of considering whether to break with its Confederate past by removing longstanding monuments

National

Sixteen people were shot in a hail of gunfire Sunday night at Bunny Friend Park in New Orleans. According to reports, multiple people began firing shots into a crowd of more than 300.

In this special edition of the NewsOne Top 5 we take a look at the top news stories during a summer that gave us plenty to talk about and reflect on. Read more about them, below.

Phyllis Montana LeBlanc talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the anniversary “I need Mayor Landrieu to stop telling the lies. We’re not back,…

Tom Joyner Morning Show

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…

Soledad O’Brien reflects on the 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on the Tom Joyner Morning Show. “Personally it made me realize what the actual roots of…