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*Neal Kendall, who just ended a 10-year stint as the executive producer of “Tavis Smiley,” is taking his talents to Arsenio Hall’s new syndicated talk show, which is set to debut Sept. 9 via CBS TV Distribution. Kendall steered more than 1,900 episodes of Smiley’s PBS talk show. Additionally, he has served as producer on [...]
*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 [...]
*Christopher Dorner – the former LAPD officer who allegedly killed two civilians and a police officer and at press time is the subject of a massive manhunt – praised Tavis Smiley, Soledad O’Brien, local Los Angeles anchor Pat Harvey and other journalists in a bizarre manifesto posted on his Facebook page. “Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, [...]
*Reports are coming in to EUR that there has been a big shake up at the popular late night PBS program “Tavis Smiley.” Three of its top executives have purportedly resigned in unison this past Friday. Neal Kendall (executive producer), Luke Sader (talent producer) and Stephanie Storey (producer). Some sources have suggested to EURweb that [...]
*WASHINGTON — Just days before the presidential inauguration and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, broadcaster Tavis Smiley is bringing together a bipartisan dream team to discuss the creation of a national plan to cut poverty in half in 10 years and eradicate it in 25. With the call for a national White House Conference [...]
*Tavis Smiley issued a cease and desist letter to radio talk show host Mo’Kelly after the journalist decided to discuss the “Poverty Tour.” During an interview Tuesday on the Tom Joyner Morning Show with Roland Martin and the crew, Mo’Kelly discussed the history of the situation, saying Tavis has it all twisted. From 2005 to [...]
*The Tuskegee Experiment included 600 black men (399 with Syphilis and 201 without) that were led down a road of deception by not only the federal government, but one of their own that they thought they could trust. Nurse Rivers, who knew the experiment was all a lie and that they were not really being [...]
*He may not want it, but Tavis Smiley is about to get some more attention because of Mo’Kelly. Tomorrow morning, Tuesday, 12-18/12 at 4:15am Pacific / 7:15am Eastern on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, blogger and radio host Mo’Kelly will be interviewed by TJMS correspondent Roland Martin. The subject is the “disagreement” between Mo’Kelly (Morris [...]
*Brother Tavis, there are many Blacks across the nation (myself included) who are appreciative of the work and contributions you have made in your journalistic career. For many years now, you have served Black people faithfully with tremendous success. Black America is a better place because of your works and no one can take that [...]
*Oh, the drama! It used to kinda private, but the rancor between Tavis Smiley and Morris W. O’Kelly a/k/a “Mo’Kelly,” has gone public. A recent article by columnist Betty Pleasant in the Los Angeles Wave newspaper did the trick. Pleasant writes that the situation between the two outspoken media personalities has heated up to the [...]
*Ceiling caving, cliff hanging, walls closing in — sounds like an Indiana Jones movie. Except this is real life. The real lives of millions of Americans. First, we hit the debt ceiling. Now we’re hanging over the fiscal cliff. Next, the walls start to close in on millions of Americans, particularly the poor. The news [...]
*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 [...]
*This past Sunday on “Meet the Press,” the presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said the following, “Latinos, women and young people — that is the new governing coalition.” OUCH. To be sure, there are Black folk in each of those categories. But since President Obama’s victory on Election Day, I have been troubled by the [...]
*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 [...]
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