Tavis Smiley

Night stalker

Hot Fuzz 3:30 a.m. on Cinemax Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and director Edgar Wright of “Shaun of the Dead” fame return in this riff on cop-buddy movies. Pegg stars as Sgt. Angel, a tough city detective who is booted from his...

Don't Confuse Susan Rice with Condi (The Nation)

They share the same last name, but don't confuse Susan Rice--Barack Obama's nominee as ambassador to the United Nations--with Condoleezza. My colleague John Nichols cherry picks one statement Rice made about Iraq--praising...

Richard Gere on AIDS awareness

On the 20th World AIDS Day, activist and actor Richard Gere shares his personal account of the evolution of AIDS in America. When the World Health Organization first declared World AIDS Day, December 1, 1988, the virus had...

NY Times 2009 Arts & Leisure Weekend Will Welcome 'Hair', Goldberg, Close, Pilobolus (Playbill)

Playbill - The New York Times' Ninth Annual Arts & Leisure Weekend, Jan. 8-11, 2009, will feature Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis with Hair composer Galt MacDermot and members of the new Broadway revival cast.

Night Stalker: Best Of The Late Night

It's the ultimate “lost and found” story – actually a whole lot of them. This new documentary chronicles the efforts of scholars, governments and others to locate the millions of pieces of art stolen by the Nazis.

Ted Turner on Tavis: Touting Abortions and Detente, Trashing FNC

On tour with his new book Call Me Ted, CNN founder Ted Turner unloaded more of his typical liberal nuggets on the Tavis Smiley show on PBS Tuesday. He pounded Bush's pro-life position on the UN Population Fund: "We said we were...

State of the Black World Conference meets in N.O.

NEW ORLEANS — The first major meeting of black leaders since the historic election of President-elect Barack Obama opened in New Orleans on Wednesday — with words for those unable to attend. “The message is the era,” Ron...

Public Radio International® names Elton Langland to head PRI Sponsor Alliances

Public Radio International (PRI) announces the appointment of Elton Langland as director of Sponsor Alliances. In this senior management position, he is responsible for helping to set and meet sponsorship revenue goals for...

Annette John-Hall: Ask not what Obama can do

The question couldn't be avoided among members of the Trotter Group, an assemblage of African American opinion writers who convened in the nation's capital last week. Still, African Americans muzzled their criticism of Obama,...

African Americans face new, post-racial era Obama’s election rewrites the black political narrative

Published: November 16th, 2008 12:05 AM African Americans have just entered the no-excuses zone. With Barack Obama’s ascension to the highest office in the United States, most African Americans feel that we have arrived as...

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