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Bill Nelson On Tavis Smiley Show: Senator: I Think You're Going To See A Lot More Bipartisanship On Health Care Bill

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) believes more Republicans will vote for the health care reform bill in its final phase. During an interview on Tuesday,...

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Cornel West Comments On Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: Hard To Be War President With Peace Prize

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

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Dr. Cornel West spoke at the Central Library in Los Angeles Friday, Oct. 9, and weighed in on what winning the Nobel Peace Prize will mean for Preside...

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PBS Collaboration Spotlights Health Care Reform Tonight

Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media

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Joel B. Schwartzberg

PBS Special Report: Health Care Reform, will air tonight September 24, 2009, 9:00-10:30 p.m. ET on PBS. The program will include late-breaking news and analysis.

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Tavis Smiley Says He's Cutting Ties to Wells Fargo Over Subprime Scandal

Washington Independent | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

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Prominent author, commentator and PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley has announced that he's cutting all business ties to Wells Fargo & Co. The move come...

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Jay Leno Defends Conan's Ratings Troubles: "Exact Same Thing I Went Through" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media

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Jay Leno defended his "Tonight Show"successor in an interview with Tavis Smiley Monday. Leno said that the attention to Conan O'Brien's ratings woes ...

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Obama 2012

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home

Read More: 14th Amendment, Spike Lee, Bryant Park, Mark Penn, 2012 Election, Terrence Yang, Racism, B.E.T., Barack Hussein Obama, Zero Mostel, Tavis Smiley, 13th Amendment, Colin Powell, Do the Right Thing, Reconstruction, Heidi Klum, Melting Pot, Cipriani's, Robert Johnson, Hip-Hop, Seal, Deb Slott, W.E.B. Dubois, Segregation, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Criminal Industrial Complex, Sonia Sotomayor, Sidney Poiter, Virginia Davies, Shelby Steele, The Dance Flick, Pink Elephant, Booker T. Washington, Home News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

I went to New York to meet Obama the candidate, and in a Soho apartment he told a small group of us that his middle name was Hussein. I thought he was telling a joke.

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Katie Couric, Tavis Smiley, Bob Woodward, Nicholas Kristof, and I Hit YouTube with Pointers for Citizen Journalists

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Bob Woodward, Tavis Smiley, YouTube Reporters' Center, Ethics in Journalism, Citizen Journalism, Katie Couric, Youtube, Nicholas Kristof, Investigative Journalism, Journalism, Online Journalism, Eyes and Ears, Media News
Arianna Huffington

Citizen journalism is rapidly emerging as an invaluable part of delivering the news. That's why I was delighted to accept YouTube's invitation to do a video offering my take on citizen journalism for the site's new Reporters' Center. READ MORE London Diary: Gordon Brown's Obsessions, The Loyal Opposition's Cuddly Karl Rove, Bad Germs, and the Most Unusual Royal Honeymoon Ever I just ended three days in London that were like a cram session in British politics -- ranging from a conversation with Gordon Brown to dinner with Frances and George Osborne, the Tories' shadow chancellor. READ MORE Watch: Arianna on BBC's "Newsnight" Discussing How the Iran Uprising Is Impacting Journalism Watch: Arianna on MSNBC's "Morning Meeting" Discussing The Financial Crisis and the Sentencing of Bernie Madoff

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Thats What's Wrong with Black People

Elon James White | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media

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Elon James White

These members of the Black intelligentsia see it as their job to step up and police President Obama on his dealings on Blackness.

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Taking a STAND: Aretha vs. Beyonce

Tavis Smiley | Posted 06.23.2009 | Entertainment

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Tavis Smiley

Check out this clip from my new film, Stand, in which my boys Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Michael Eric Dyson debate who is a better singer, Aretha or Beyoncé.

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Taking a "Stand" on the Black Male Experience

Tavis Smiley | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media

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Tavis Smiley

My new film STAND reflects on Black men who "stood" for something in the past and what it means as Black men continue to "stand" for something now.

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Prince: "I Was Born Epileptic" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.29.2009 | Entertainment

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Prince announced Monday night on PBS' "Tavis Smiley" show that he was born with epilepsy. "I've never spoken about this before, but I was born epilep...

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Discussing Veterans' Issues with Tavis Smiley

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

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Robert Greenwald

I appeared on Tavis Smiley last night to talk about In Their Boots and the issues facing veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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We Deserve More Than A Symbolic President

Hermene Hartman | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

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Hermene Hartman

The black community expects closure in the gaps: education, employment, housing and business. We expect black fullness in the White House at every level of the administration.

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Chris Brown And Now BeBe Winans! Black America Where Is the Outrage?

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

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Yvonne R. Davis

How come the majority of people vocal about violence against Rihanna have been white women? How come black women as have not come together as a collective to say enough is enough?

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My Conversation with Robert Gates

Tavis Smiley | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics

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Tavis Smiley

2009-03-12-gates.jpgI asked Secretary Gates about the recent increase of violence in Iraq and the notion that we are not winning in Afghanistan.

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Tavis Smiley's Big Day

Karen Ocamb | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Black Gays, LGBT Politics, HIV/AIDS, State of the Black Union, Tavis Smiley, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Kevin Fenton, James Baldwin, Michael Eric Dyson, Barack Obama, The Williams Institute, Phill Wilson, Media News
Karen Ocamb

Gay and bisexual black men in California have household incomes that are 44 percent lower than their heterosexual counterparts.

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Sri Lanka Rebels Lose Killinochci

Benjamin Bronfman | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

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Benjamin Bronfman

Even as the Sri Lankan conflict seems to be drawing to a close, the government, which has a long history of abducting Tamil civilians and suppressing information, has increased its security forces in the capitol.

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Live Blogging the State of the Black Union Symposium -- Panel 1

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics

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Michael Fauntroy

I'm in Los Angeles today to blog the State of the Black Union conference. I'll be posting throughout the day with observations about event.

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10th Annual State Of The Black Union (VIDEO)

C-Span | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics

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Watch live video from C-Span of the 10th annual "State of the Black Union." ...

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Why Are All the Talk-Show Hosts White Guys?

Brandt Goldstein | Posted 03.27.2009 | Entertainment

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Brandt Goldstein

Given that Conan O'Brien just took his last bow on NBC's Late Night, let 's have a frank conversation: Why are evening talk-show hosts almost all white guys?

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My Conversation with Sean Penn

Tavis Smiley | Posted 03.26.2009 | Entertainment

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Tavis Smiley

2009-02-23-seanpennts.jpg Recently, I sat down with the normally press-shy actor to talk about a number of subjects, including how he views his role as an advocate.

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My Conversations with M.I.A. and the Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary

Tavis Smiley | Posted 03.21.2009 | World

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Tavis Smiley

Today I spoke with Sri Lanka's Foreign Secretary, Dr. Palitha Kohona, who took exception to hip hop artist M.I.A.'s remarks made on my show three weeks ago. 2009-02-19-tavismia.jpg

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My Conversation with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Tavis Smiley | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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Tavis Smiley

2009-01-22-bloomberg.jpgI spoke with Mayor Bloomberg about the incoming Obama administration and the news that Hillary Clinton had been sworn in as the next Secretary of State.

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Arianna Discusses "HuffPost's Complete Guide To Blogging" With Tavis Smiley

Huff TV | Posted 01.09.2009 | Home

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Huff TV

Arianna discussed "HuffPost's Complete Guide To Blogging" with Tavis Smiley. Watch a clip from the show below. See the full segment below: ...

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Tavis Smiley: Doesn't Expect Obama Interview, Accused Of Being Obama "Hater"

MarketWatch | Jon Friedman | Posted 11.24.2008 | Media

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Tavis Smiley doesn't expect presidential candidate Barack Obama to agree to come on his PBS late-night talk show before the election. "The odds are s...

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