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Published: 10/15/09

A Tom Joyner Family Reunion

By  Mary C. Curtis - Politics Daily
A Tom Joyner Family Reunion

Tom Joyner is celebrating, with good reason. The radio host of the syndicated "Tom Joyner Morning Show" traveled with family members on Wednesday to Columbia, S.C., to witness an event that changed their lives. A posthumous pardon was granted for Joyner's two great-uncles, who were wrongfully executed in 1915 in the death of John Q. Lewis, a 73-year-old white Confederate veteran. The Parole and Pardon Board voted unanimously to clear the names of Thomas and Meeks Griffin in the 1913 murder. It's thought to be the first post-conviction pardon in South Carolina for someone sentenced to death, ...

Published: 08/14/09

Glenn Beck Loses Advertisers Over 'Racist' Remark. White House Involved?

By  Emily Miller - Politics Daily
Glenn Beck Loses Advertisers Over 'Racist' Remark. White House Involved?

Glenn Beck has lost advertisers on his TV show after calling President Obama "a racist" in the context of the Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy. The pressure on advertisers has become a politically charged debate about the right to free speech, censorship and what constitutes hate speech. Conservatives are questioning if the campaign against Beck is connected to the White House staff. ...

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