This week's piece by Kelefa Sanneh starts out exploring TV and radio commentator Tavis Smiley's criticism of Barack Obama's candidacy and looks into Smiley's enterprises, which are based in Leimert ...

Syracuse, NY.----Tavis Smiley, one of the nation's leading talk show hosts, was honored Friday night during the 10th anniversary celebration of the African American Male Congress at Syracuse ...

PBS talkshow host Tavis Smiley believes that it’s his ability to ease guests — many of them reclusive celebrities and high-profile political figures not easily given over to self-revelation — into ...

“She has distinguished herself for many reasons. She has so much to say and so much good to offer. She has been on my show the most often, about a half-dozen times. She also took me on my first trip ...

Tavis Smiley is asking "What is black enough" after reading a Flint Journal article about a lawsuit brought against the Urban League of Flint based on the "touchy racial issue of light vs. dark." In ...

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