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Tavis Smiley

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To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.


— Tavis Smiley


#between #clear #concerns #ever #gap

We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.


— Tavis Smiley


#answer #bargaining #collective #collective bargaining #few

We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.


— Tavis Smiley


#country #facts #give #i #ideological

When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?


— Tavis Smiley


#going #inherited #more #opportunities #something

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.


— Tavis Smiley


#away #came #change #lives #now






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On December 12 2008 Smiley received the Du Bois Medal from Harvard University's W. Every week after meeting Bradley's staff Smiley wrote a letter to the mayor's office asking for an internship and once flew to Los Angeles to appeal. Controversy over Presidential Candidate Barack Obama
On April 11 2008 Tavis Smiley announced that he would resign in June 2008 as a commentator on the Tom Joyner Morning Show.

They were featured together interviewing musician Bill Withers in the 2009 documentary film Still Bill. Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991 and starting in 1996 he hosted the talk show BET Talk (later renamed BET Tonight) on BET. Tavis Smiley (/ˈtævɨs/; born September 13 1964) is an American talk show host author liberal political commentator entrepreneur advocate and philanthropist.

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