Your Black World founder Dr. Boyce Watkins writes in a blog entry that until now, Tavis Smiley’s actions have defined him as a leading critic of President Barack Obama and, until recently, a textbook ...

LOS ANGELES — Tavis Smiley is all wound up. His voice is rough from too much vocalizing, but the host of public television’s “Tavis Smiley’’ talk show and public radio’s “The Tavis Smiley Show’’ is on ...

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On an NPR segement Thursday, author, TV and radio personality, Tavis Smiley, asks Americans, specifically black Americans, to hold President Obama accountable for his actions in the White House. In ...

(The Root) — When we spoke to Tavis Smiley back in September, right in the midst of widespread hand-wringing about his and Cornel West’s election-season criticism of President Obama’s treatment of the ...

During his second inaugural address Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama said, "We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to ...

Tavis Smiley is all wound up. His voice is rough from too much vocalizing, but the host of public television's "Tavis Smiley" talk show and public radio's "The Tavis Smiley Show" is on an oratorical ...