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*I’m not here to defend President Obama, because as I pointed out in previous articles, I have an issue or two with some of his policies myself, just like I’ve had with EVERY White president. But I think we owe this brother the benefit of the doubt. He’s plagued with enough problems in having to deal with [...]
*When President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Cornel West was rigid on his position about war during his administration. Since war has raged on and the president has authorized more troops and even mobilized attacks on Libya, West is not letting up on the heavy hand of criticism. On the radio [...]
*Tavis Smiley’s buddy and partner in slime (against President Obama), Professor Cornel West, is at it again. With the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut as the backdrop, Saturday, West referred to President Obama and other (unnamed) politicians as “cowards” who only cares about “vanilla” children. West, an open and frequent critic of Obama, referring to the [...]
*The ruckus between Tavis Smiley and Chicago Public Media CEO Torey Malatia was just dulling down, until the other day. It seems Malatia (pictured below) wasn’t going to let the issue get swept under the rug, so he wrote an op-ed, defending the cancellation of the show. “I am among those who believe that complete [...]
*In a recent article, Dr. Boyce Watkins posited that he sees history replaying itself. He sees Barack Obama as John Kennedy and Dr. Cornel West as Martin Luther King Jr. In other words, and this is deep, Cornel West is Martin Luther King, the preacher/scholar who is determined to die telling the truth, no matter [...]
*For some, Cornel West may not DO much, but the man says some pretty controversial things. And his latest commentary may top ‘em all. The professor has never appeared reluctant to lay down some harsh criticism on his black president regarding issues of race, war, and poverty. This time, he took it to a whole [...]
*Tavis Smiley and Cornel West can’t be held down very long, it seems. Lat week Tavis was in the news for blasting their former outlet, Public Radio station WEEZ, for dropping them because of bad ratings. The hosts of the “Smiley & West” radio show are gaining coverage on the air in Chicago with two [...]
*Tavis Smiley and his beloved brother in the struggle, Cornel West, just got kicked off a Chicago radio station due to declining ratings. Smiley addressed the split recently in a heated open letter to Torey Malatia, president of Chicago Public Radio affiliate WBEZ. “One could argue that it is easier for an African American to [...]
Recently, Dr. Cornel West and his academic homeboy, Eddie Glaude, spoke up about black suffering that has occurred during the presidency of Barack Obama. Glaude and West feel that the Obama Administration has leveraged its strong support from the black community as an opportunity to engage in serious political neglect. “As folks rally to support [...]
*Uh oh. Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West and Wal-Mart done gone and pissed off some “community leaders.” According to a press release from Project Islamic HOPE’s Najee Ali, a coalition of Los Angeles, clergy, civil rights, Wal-Mart associates and community leaders are accusing the PBS talk show host of hypocrisy and being a pawn [...]
*While the nation awaits the imminent release of the latest numbers on poverty from the U.S. Census Bureau, broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Princeton University Professor Emeritus Cornel West, hosts of the nationally syndicated public radio program Smiley & West from Public Radio International (PRI), are once again bringing national attention to economic injustice by announcing “The [...]
*Actor James Earl Jones, who used to be the “voice of CNN,” was interviewed on Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West‘s syndicated Smiley & West radio show, where he was asked whether he is a “political person.” [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Jones shared that he consumes as much political news as he can, [...]
*Tavis Smiley is more than serious about his campaign to end poverty in America. The talk show host and author, along with his partner in action, Cornel West, have written a book about the terrible reality across the nation called, “The Rich & the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto.” The book challenges everyone to [...]
*Melissa Harris-Perry is on her way to the top. It seems like the heavy criticism her archenemy Cornel West bestowed upon her hasn’t affected her at all. She’s getting ready to join MSNBC’s news as its newest anchor. According to the network’s president, Phil Griffin, Harris-Perry’s keeping the attention of audiences nationwide, but she didn’t [...]
*Cornel West is the topic of conversation again after making his opinion known once more, but this time about Melissa Harris-Perry. As we reported yesterday, he called her a “liar” and that “[s]he’s become the momentary darling of liberals, but I pray for her because she’s in over her head. She’s a fake and a [...]
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