> The ROOT 100 recognizes emerging and established African-American leaders who are making extraordinary contributions. The ROOT 100 celebrates leadership, creativity, service, and, above all, excellence. Among the 100 that are honored is Radio One CEO Alfred Liggins III. Liggins is quoted as saying “When I wake up in the morning and think of competing, […]
>Radio host Tom Joyner Wednesday received the pardon he was seeking for his great uncles who were executed in South Carolina in 1913 in the death of a 73-year-old Confederate veteran. Joyner, host of the Dallas-based Tom Joyner Morning Show, asked a seven-member panel at the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services […]
> From Seanna Adcox (Associated Press) – Nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner is asking South Carolina to posthumously pardon two of his great-uncles — black landowners executed in 1915 after being convicted of murdering an elderly Confederate Army veteran. Joyner learned of the fate of his great-uncles, farmers Thomas and Meeks Griffin, during filming […]
> The Tom Joyner Morning Show talks with Harvard University Professor Henry Louis ‘Skip’ Gates. Professor Gates gives his first hand account of his arrest by Cambridge police officer Sgt. James Crowley and the beer summit that followed at the White House with President Obama and Vice President Biden. Listen here to the interview
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