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Tavis Smiley

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Tavis Smiley's Biography

Tavis Smiley (/ˈtævɨs/; born September 13, 1964) is a talk show host, author, liberal political commentator, entrepreneur, advocate and philanthropist. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Kokomo, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles. Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991, and starting in 1996, he hosted the talk show BET Talk (later renamed BET Tonight) on BET. Controversially, after Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC News in 2001, BET declined to renew Smiley's contract that year. Smiley then began hosting The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR from 2002 to 2004 and currently hosts Tavis Smiley on PBS on the weekdays and "The Tavis Smiley Show" from PRI. In 2010 Smiley and Dr. Cornel West have joined forces for their own radio talk show, Smiley & West. They were featured together interviewing musician Bill Withers in the 2009 documentary film Still Bill.

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  • PBS's Tavis Smiley Fumes Over Failure of Gun Control Legislation

    News Source: Newsbusters | 24 days ago
    Last week, before the Senate voted on the Manchin-Toomey gun control bill, Tavis Smiley declared that the idea that expanded background checks might not pass made him want to throw up. Well, the Senate has voted down the measure, and Smiley didn't

  • After Gun Debate, Media Credibility Is Shot

    News Source: Newsbusters | 27 days ago
    Normally, the people who cover the media industry try studiously to avoid mentioning the very obvious fact that America's elite journalists are overwhelmingly liberal and that one can discern this by reviewing their output. This is a logical response

  • Lack of Expanded Background Checks Makes Tavis Smiley Want to ‘Throw Up'

    News Source: Newsbusters | 30 days ago
    This week, the Senate voted down the proposed Manchin-Toomey gun control bill that would have expanded background checks for potential gun buyers. Somewhere in Los Angeles, Tavis Smiley is cleaning up the mess he made. On his PBS talk show two days
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  • Jane Fonda on Adoption and Race - The Root

    Blog Source: www.theroot.com | 23 days ago
    (The Root) -- Tonight on his PBS program, host Tavis Smiley speaks to Mary Williams, the African-American writer whose book, The Lost Daughter, chronicles her adoption by actress Jane Fonda. Check out this clip, in which Smiley asks ...

  • Same Women, Different Show: Rosario Dawson on Leno, Eva ...

    Blog Source: www.sefijaonline.com | 23 days ago
    Same Women, Different Show: Rosario Dawson on Leno, Eva Mendes on Tavis Smiley. Rosario is almost certainly talking about Trance, as well as the zillion other projects she's working on, while Eva is batting clean-up for A Place Beyond ...

  • Jane Fonda Says More Black People Should Adopt

    Blog Source: www.clutchmagonline.com | 23 days ago
    In a recent interview with Tavis Smiley, he asks whether the story of how Fonda “saved” Williams could could actually turn into a “Blind Side” type of movie. “Maybe more black people should reach out,” Fonda says in a tense moment. She then ...
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