Martin joined the Tom Joyner Morning Show as a senior analyst in 2008. As an author he has written the books Speak, Brother! A Black Man’s View of America, Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith, and The First: President Barack Obama’s Road to the White House as originally reported by Roland S. Martin. In 2012 he was suspended by CNN for a controversial tweet about a Super Bowl ad featuring David Beckham.