LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- This weekend, Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, co-hosts of Smiley & West distributed by Public Radio International (PRI), pay tribute to

NEW YORK, April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National: The Eleventh National Black Writers Conference will host a post-Conference Center for Black Literature Fundraiser

LOS ANGELES, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The 2008 election season not only gave us our first African

The Tavis Smiley Show from PRI on Friday, October 7 (check local public radio listings), and be the focus of five special episodes on the PBS program Tavis Smiley

15-city national tour hopes to raise awareness about the plight of the poor LOS ANGELES, July 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Princeton professor Cornel West, hosts of the nationally syndicated public radio program Smiley & West from Public Radio International (PRI), announced The Poverty Tour: A Call to Conscience on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight Wednesday evening. The 15-city bus tour will highlight the plight of the poor of all races, colors, and creeds so they will not be forgotten, ignored or rendered invisible during this difficult and dangerous time of economic deprivation and political cowardice. Smiley & West will be on the road August 6-12, 2011, starting with a gathering of the nation's often forgotten Native Americans on the Lac Coutre Oreilles Indian Reservation near Hayward, Wisconsin.