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In Partnership with The William C. Velasquez Institute, PBS Broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Univision America's Fernando Espuelas to Moderate a National Conversation with Latino Leaders about Critical Issues like the Economy, Healthcare, Education and Immigration CHICAGO, April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the wake of the historic political muscle flexed by America's 50-million-strong Latino community in the 2012 elections, PBS broadcaster Tavis Smiley, in partnership with The...
TAVIS SMILEY REPORTS: "Education Under Arrest" Premieres Tuesday, March 26 at 8pm on PBS LOS ANGELES, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A new episode of TAVIS SMILEY REPORTS (TSR), a primetime special on PBS, looks at the connection between the juvenile justice system and the dropout rate among American teens, as well as the efforts by educators, law enforcement professionals, judges, youth advocates and the at-risk teens themselves to end what has become known as "the school-to-prison...
TAVIS SMILEY REPORTS: "Education Under Arrest" Premieres Tuesday, March 26 at 8pm on PBS LOS ANGELES, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new episode of TAVIS SMILEY REPORTS (TSR), a primetime special on PBS, looks at the connection between the juvenile justice system and the dropout rate among American teens, as well as the efforts by educators, law enforcement professionals, judges, youth advocates and the at-risk teens themselves to end what has become known as "the...
NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2009, TIME magazine named Tavis Smiley to its list of "The World's 100 Most Influential People." Surely such an overachiever could never be labeled a failure. A successful small business owner, notable philanthropist, New York Times best-selling author, host of his own national television and radio programs--these aren't the descriptions we would normally hear about someone who'd been fired or arrested, who left college degreeless, or said...
During last week's powerful conversation, former Speaker Newt Gingrich proposes to work with the Congressional Black Caucus' Marcia L. Fudge LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Due to the most powerful conversation with the most bipartisan dream team of panelists Tavis Smiley Presents has ever hosted, a fourth night of the Vision for a New America: A Future Without Poverty symposium, which originally aired LIVE on C-SPAN last Thursday, January 17, 2013, has been...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tonight, Monday, January 14, 2013, TAVIS SMILEY celebrates 10 years on PBS by revisiting some memorable moments and conversations over the years. It all begins with President Barack Obama, followed by conversations with musical icons Prince and James Taylor, 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee, and the late civil rights pioneer Coretta Scott King (Check local listings). Later this month, Tavis will sit down with Grammy...
Next Thursday, January 17, Newt Gingrich, CBC Chair Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH), Michael Moore, Jeffrey Sachs, Cornel West and others invited to discuss a 'Vision for a New America' WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just days before the presidential inauguration and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, broadcaster Tavis Smiley is bringing together a bipartisan dream team to discuss the creation of a national plan to cut poverty in half in 10 years and eradicate it...
This January, Smiley and his All-Star Panel discuss a 'Vision for a New America' LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As Congress convenes to determine the fate of the 50 million Americans living in poverty and a shattered middle class stalled in a jobless recovery, broadcaster Tavis Smiley is calling on everyday people from coast to coast to urge President Barack Obama to convene a White House Conference on the Eradication of Poverty in America. Smiley will...
CHICAGO, Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Smiley Radio Properties, Inc. (SRP) celebrates the second anniversary of its popular radio program, Smiley & West from Public Radio International (PRI), with the addition of two new affiliates in Chicago, IL. The one-hour weekly program, hosted by broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Union Theological Seminary professor Cornel West, will be heard Sundays at 3 p.m. on WCPT - Chicago's Progressive Talk starting November 4, and Saturdays at 11 a.m....
CHICAGO, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tavis Smiley, public radio and television broadcaster, emailed the following letter Monday to Torey Malatia, President and CEO of Chicago Public Media, regarding the recent cancellation of Smiley & West from Public Radio International (PRI) by WBEZ. In the letter Smiley rejects the claim that his public radio work has become "far less inclusive," as Malatia has suggested. "I am as 'inclusive' as I have ever been because I am as...
