Tavis Smiley

What is the role of “Black” rock in the age of Obama?

If you look at the post-election electoral map, you see that 90% of the country voted for Obama. That's a multicultural, multi-generational coalition of voters that came together across many socioeconomic boundaries. Obama's...

Photo Release -- Sandra Evers-Manly Honored With Walter Bremond Pioneer of African American...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sandra Evers-Manly, Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) vice president of Corporate Responsibility and president of Northrop Grumman Foundation, was honored by the...

KCET ups Mary Mazur

Programming czar now exec VP at station Mary Mazur has been upped to exec veep and chief content officer at pubcaster KCET. Mazur had already been the programming czar for KCET as exec veep of programming and production. With...

Bailout outrage

Bill Perkins' "New York Times cartoon. Houston venture capitalist Bill Perkins expressed his outrage at the Wall Street bailout in the form of cartoons in the "New York Times." While many taxpayers and financial experts are...

Obama win to feed 'Chocolate News'

By FRAZIER MOORE Associated Press As the nation's first black president, Barack Obama means a wealth of material for "Chocolate News," David Alan Grier's fearless spoof of a black-oriented news magazine show. Grier is having a...

Scholars explore role of race after Obama's feat

Almost a week after voters elected the nation's first black president, two of the country's preeminent cultural scholars engaged in a broad, humorous, urgent dialogue on the powerful role that race continues to play.

Tavis Smiley and Cornel West at Miami Book Fair

Tavis Smiley and Cornel West at Miami Book Fair Ricky Williams had his first 100-yard rushing game since 2005 and Miami's defense turned away the Seattle Seahawks not once, but twice in the final minutes to hang on for a 21-19...

Miami book fair speaks volumes about local passion for books

The Miami Book Fair International, widely known as one of the biggest and best in the country if not the biggest and best, started out small. Really small. Or the idea behind it did: to borrow some folding tables and sell used...

Be careful what you ask for....

I have been traveling over the last few days and three thoughts popped into my pea brain that I thought were worth sharing. Interestingly, they all can be organized under the title of this post - be careful what you...

Calling To Service

In his speech on Tuesday night after winning the election President-elect Barack Obama spoke about the need for sacrifice and called us to serve our country. more about “Hulu - MSNBC Decision 08: Obama Presi…“, posted with...