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Published: 09/10/10

Obama on Tom Joyner Show to Fire Up Black Voters

By  Mary C. Curtis - Politics Daily
Obama on Tom Joyner Show to Fire Up Black Voters

"Glad you called home," Tom Joyner told President Obama during an interview Friday on the radio host's popular morning show. The warm welcome was followed by questions on the economy, education and why African-Americans voters should get to the polls in November. With Democrats facing predictions of major losses in the midterm elections, Obama scheduled a televised press conference on Friday. Before facing the cameras, though, the president returned to one of his most loyal constituencies. Joyner's nationally syndicated show airs in more than 100 markets, reaching nearly 8 million ...

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, ...

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