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About Tavis Smiley
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The Tavis Smiley Show features a unique mix of news and pop culture to combine for one thought-provoking and entertaining program. It's a hybrid of news, issues and entertainment, featuring interviews with newsmakers, politicians, celebrities and real people.
The Tavis Smiley Show is produced and recorded at The Smiley Group, Inc. studio.
TAVIS SMILEY
Some would say that an exclusive interview with the President of the United States, during one of the most controversial scandals to ever hit the White House, is the interview of a lifetime. Others would say interviewing Fidel Castro in the wake of unprecedented U.S. sanctions relief or the conversation with Pope John Paul II was the most significant.
Time selected Smiley as one of America's 50 most promising young leaders. Newsweek profiled him as one of the "20 people changing how Americans get their news" and dubbed him one of the nation's "captains of the airwaves.
"With his late night television talk show, Tavis Smiley on PBS, and his radio show The Tavis Smiley Show from PRI, Smiley is the only American hosting signature national talk shows on both public television and public radio.
Smiley, who started his career as an aide to the late Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, also offers political commentary twice weekly on the Tom Joyner Morning Show. In addition, he has authored eight books and has his own imprint (Smiley Books) with Hay House.
Texas Southern University recently honored Smiley with the opening of The Tavis Smiley School of Communications and The Tavis Smiley Center for Professional Media Studies, making Smiley the youngest African American to ever have a professional school and center named after him on a college or university campus. Smiley cemented his commitment to TSU with a $1million gift to the Center.
Tavis Smiley Presents, a subsidiary of The Smiley Group, Inc., brings ideas and people together through symposiums, seminars, forums and town hall meetings.
Smiley has received numerous honorary doctorate degrees including one from his alma mater, Indiana University.
One of ten children, Smiley is single and lives in Los Angeles. In his spare time, he enjoys a good game of Scrabble with friends.
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The Tavis Smiley Show Production
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Sheryl Flowers, Executive Producer
Joanne D. Young, Assocate Producer
Morris W. O'Kelly, Producer/Editor
Denise Pines, Creative Consultant
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The Tavis Smiley Show Funders
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Major Funding Provided by
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
Kaiser Permanente
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Tavis Smiley Foundation
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The mission of the nonprofit organization–Tavis Smiley Foundation–is to enlighten, encourage and empower Black youth.
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The Tavis Smiley Show from PRI appreciates the support of its national underwriters — Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and Honda. The program is produced by Smiley Radio Properties, Inc. and distributed by PRI.
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