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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tavis Smiley’s recent criticisms of the Obama administration’s failure to directly address the concerns of the black community has caused an uproar among black leaders. The Tavis haters are out in ...

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 ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Professor Cornel West is President Obama’s silenced, disregarded, ...

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Some 15 percent of the U.S. population lived below the poverty line in 2011, according to a report from the Census Bureau. Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, co-authors of The Rich and the Rest of the U.S.

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 ...