About Your Voice with Solomon Jones

This morning on Your Voice with Solomon Jones, youth advocate Rachel Trippett joined us to talk about her upcoming interview etiquette event this Sunday, June 3rd. Interview Etiquette by Rachel Taylor is a free event for high school students looking to gain summer jobs. Job opportunities will be available! https://instagram.com/p/BiulvPqHo7V/

President Donald Trump announced unexpectedly Thursday that he was granting a full pardon to Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative author and filmmaker who pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign finance laws in 2014.   He was indicted earlier that year on charges that he illegally used straw donors to contribute to Republican Senate candidate Wendy Long […]

Bodycam footage has been released of the moments leading up to a violent arrest on a New Jersey beach. Wildwood police released video of their officers confronting 20-year-old Emily Weinman, who was suspected of underage drinking, over Memorial Day weekend. Police said the young woman refused to cooperate, then assaulted an officer. Weinman’s lawyer says the […]

Prosperity gospel televangelist Jesse Duplantis is pleading with his followers, claiming he needs a $54 million jet to help him efficiently spread the gospel to as many people as possible, the Washington Post reports. In a video posted to YouTube, television preacher Duplantis asked the Lord — and his hundreds of thousands of followers around the […]

According to CBS 3, Lawyers for Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill appeared in court today for a motions hearing. Mill was seen arriving in court with his lawyers Wednesday morning. The rapper was released on bail last month, after spending five months in prison for a probation violation on a gun and drugs conviction.

The Philadelphia 76ers have announced they are looking into allegations that team president Bryan Colangelo is reportedly connected to Twitter accounts that criticized Sixers players Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz, among other NBA figures. The 76ers said via a statement Wednesday morning, “An online media outlet filed a story linking multiple social media accounts to 76ers President of […]

Starbucks was attemping a dramatic move toward racial reconciliation Tuesday as it closed 8,000 stores across the nation for an afternoon of anti-bias training. Up to 180,000 employees at Starbucks stores and at its headquarters are receiving training from a “tool kit” that will “focus on understanding prejudice and the history of public accommodations in the […]

Praise 107.9 FM Host Solomon Jones joins a CNN panel as the news of Roseanne Barr’s firing breaks. Barr’s hit show was canceled by ABC after news of a racist tweet went viral.

Today, “Roseanne” star Roseanne Barr attacked former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarett in a tweet alleging connections to the Muslim Brotherhood that many have called racist. Jarrett, who is African-American with no ties to the Sunni Muslim organization known as the Muslim Brotherhood, was one of most senior and long-term presences in the Obama […]

Two female police officers were among three people killed in Belgium today, when a man stabbed them, took their guns and shot them in what authorities have since deemed a terror attack. Police later shot and killed the gunman, who first fled into a nearby college and took a female hostage. No students were harmed.

For the past week, Sixers star Joel Embiid has been appearing randomly at the South Philly spot taking on challengers in pickup games of street ball. On Memorial Day, Sixers fan Andrew Straitman was walking back to his car from the Acme on South Street around 6 p.m. when he saw about two dozen people […]

Galatians‬ ‭6:7‬ says, “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” That’s what I thought of when Morgan Freeman, 80, was accused by multiple women of sexual harassment and was forced to apologize.  But Freeman was not facing criminal charges. Harvey Weinstein is another matter. The movie mogul was arrested […]