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*Talk show host and activist Tavis Smiley is set to confront the issue of poverty head on Thursday (tonight) as he moderates “Remaking America: From Poverty to Prosperity.” The C-SPAN live broadcast will air from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, Jan. 12 and will feature a panel of experts at George Washington [...]
*Tavis Smiley is headed to Washington D.C. this week to host a three hour panel about the future of the country. “We are doing something that doesn’t happen in Washington. I’m going — Mr. Smiley goes to Washington, and we are going to have a conversation,” he told reporters Sunday at the Television Critics Association [...]
*The infamous C-SPAN caller who complained that too many black people are being featured on the network was comedic fodder for Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Daily Show.” In the segment, titled “Fear of a Black C-SPANet,” host Jon Stewart not only made fun of the caller – who said the network’s name should be changed [...]
*The word “Negro” may no longer appear on a US census after this year, thanks to a woman who took offense to the term and voiced her opinion directly to the Census Bureau Director on live television. The whole thing went down on C-SPAN Friday. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves was a guest on “Washington [...]
*The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Cornel West and Minister Louis Farrakhan were among the religious leaders who joined Tavis Smiley in Chicago to record a broadcast on the African American Agenda, reports Gospel Today.com. The “We Count” event is scheduled to appear on the C-Span network on Monday, March 29, 2010 at 8:30 PM and takes [...]
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