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Tavis Smiley was set to deliver the keynote address at an MLK luncheon hosted by the Peoria Civic Center next week in central Illinois until a group of Obama supporters demanded that he be replaced or face a boycott, Politico reports.
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Bill O’Reilly had Tavis Smiley and Cornel West on his show on Tuesday and the group engaged in a heated discussion over the causes of poverty and the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
O’Reilly believes that people bare a personal responsibility for their own poverty, while West and Smiley argued about the government factors that contribute to it.
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President Obama critic Tavis Smiley went ballistic this past weekend on his TV show after Obama told African Americans to “stop complaining.”
Obama, at the Phoenix Awards Dinner at the CBC Forum, said that African Americans need to get up and fight.
“I expect all of you to march with me and press on. Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying.
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Television personality Tavis Smiley and political pundit Sean Hannity exchanged jabs against president Obama Thursday on Hannity’s FOX News television program.
During the segment called is “President Obama Losing His Base?,” Hannity all but ignores Smiley’s real purpose of appearing on the show, to promote his new PBS special about the Black male achievement gap, and instead focused in on criticizing the president and the Congressional Black Caucus.
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Television personality and author Tavis Smiley recently sat down with TheGrio to talk about his upcoming PBS special “Too Important to Fail,” which examines the Black student education gap, and to address his criticsim of President Barack Obama.
During the interview, Smiley is unapologetic about his criticism of Obama saying, “My job has always been to hold presidents accountable to the best interest of all Americans but specifically and unapologetically for .”
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During a rally in Chicago Sunday, Tavis Smiley, Dr. Cornel West, and Minister Louis Farrakhan criticized President Obama on his political base, and his alleged negligence of the poor.
“President Obama should acknowledge the poor and come back home to his base — even if it means being a one-term president,” Farrakhan said to an excited crowd.
Farrakhan joined Smiley and West as a guest speaker at the town hall meeting that was
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PBS host Tavis Smiley and Professor Cornel West went on CNN yesterday to talk about their nationwide “Poverty Tour” and President Obama. Instead, they got into a debate with CNN anchor, Carol Costello.
Smiley and West appeared on “American Morning” and went straight on the attack of President Obama’s debt ceiling deal.
“I think this debt ceiling deal, Carol, was really a declaration of war on the poor,” he said. “The Congress, the
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A new op-ed in TheGrio today by Jaquen Castellanos talks about the continuing attacks on President Obama by Princeton Professor Cornel West and talk show host Tavis Smiley.
In an interview on CNN with Piers Morgan this past Wednesday, West explained why he previously referred to the president as a “black mascot” for “Wall Street oligarchs,” as well as the “proud” head of the “American killing machine.”
“I supported by dear
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Talk show host, political commentator and author Tavis Smiley took to their airwaves last week to continue his criticism of President Obama when it comes to the issue of Black unemployment.
Smiley, who many feel is a member of a tag-team with Cornel West who criticize the president and Rev. Al Sharpton, stopped by our sister Houston radio station TheBox to promote his new book, Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building
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