Excerpt taken from "The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto" (April 2012) courtesy of SmileyBooks.
There are nearly 150 million persistently poor and near poor people in America who are not responsible for the damage done by the Great Recession. Yet they pay the...
589 Comments | Posted April 12, 2012 | 5:08 PM
More than one million jobs have been created in the United States within the past six months.
That's the good news.
The downside is that more than half of these new jobs, or nearly 668,000, were created in the restaurant, retail, temporary service, social assistance and hospitality sectors....
0 Comments | Posted April 4, 2008 | 7:26 PM
I want to say that I'm deeply disappointed that my dear brother Barack Obama decided not to go pay tribute and lay his wreath for the great Martin Luther King, Jr. That brother Martin's profound love and deep sacrifice for black people, America and humanity is in no way reducible...
0 Comments | Posted September 20, 2007 | 12:22 PM
From the front page of the Washington Post to the editorial page of the New York Times, we have seen the awakening of the elite press to the historic significance of the impact of the Covenant Movement, let by Tavis Smiley.
The actions of everyday people to bring pressure...
0 Comments | Posted September 17, 2007 | 9:37 PM
The GOP debate in Baltimore at Morgan State University, led and moderated by Tavis Smiley, and currently being snubbed by the leading candidates, is a pivotal moment in this election. It is a litmus test for a Republican Party that, in the past, has run away from black voters and...
0 Comments | Posted April 20, 2012 | 12:03 PM