http://www.metafilter.com/tags/TomJoyner Posts tagged with 'TomJoyner' at MetaFilter. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:11:54 -0800 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:11:54 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/85867/Justice%2DDelayed Nearly 100 years had passed since <a href="http://www.tjms.com/stream/">nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner</a>'s "great-uncles, Thomas Griffin and Meeks Griffin were wrongfully executed in South Carolina. On Wednesday, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/15/south.carolina.pardon/index.html">a board voted 7-0 to pardon both men</a>, clearing their names in the 1913 killing of a veteran of the Confederate Army. ...It marks the first time in history that South Carolina has issued a posthumous pardon in a capital murder case." "Joyner, the host of <i>The Tom Joyner Morning Show</i>, had known nothing of his great-uncles' murder convictions until last year. That's when esteemed Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. uncovered Joyner's past as part of the PBS documentary <i><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/">African American Lives 2</a>.</i> (Yes, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy">that Henry Louis Gates, Jr.</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.85867 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:11:54 -0800 deathpenalty Execution HenryLouisGates justice pardons SouthCarolina TomJoyner darkstar http://www.metafilter.com/10940/ <a href="http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2001/1008/042.html">Robert Johnson</a> is the first black billionaire, and ranks #172 on the <a href="http://forbes.com/2001/09/27/400.html">list of richest Americans </a>after he sold BET to Viacom. Does he have a social responsibilty to show more than T&A and comedy on BET, or is he being unfairly singled out? tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.10940 Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:10:42 -0800 #172 BET Billionaire black BlackEntertainmentTelevision BobJohnson cable Forbes responsibility RobertJohnson TavisSmiley TomJoyner Viacom owillis