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Hour One June 8, 2007.

Hillary Clinton Deroy Murdock
Arnold Rampersad George Johnson
Darryl Hunt
& Mark Rabil

Democratic Presidential Candidate and New York Senator Hillary Clinton discusses why she's "..in and in to win" the historic title of first female president of the United States. Regular commentator and Scripps Howard News Service columnist Deroy Murdock grades the GOP presidential hopefuls' performances in this week's New Hampshire Presidential Debates. Biographer and Stanford University Professor Arnold Rampersad uncovers the invisible man behind the 1952 landmark novel: Invisible Man with his new book: Ralph Ellison, A Biography. George Johnson dissects Major Leaguer Gary Sheffield's racially tinged diatribe in his weekly sports drill. Plus, a frank look at Darryl Hunt's nearly 20 yrs behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. Darryl Hunt and dedicated Defense Attorney Mark Rabil discuss DNA evidence as a liberator, detailed in their HBO documentary feature film: The Trials of Darryl Hunt. Click here for airdates.

…All that in the first hour of The Tavis Smiley Show.


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Hour Two June 8, 2007.

Geoffrey Nunberg Dr. Eddie Glaude
Vicki Escarra Lynnette Khalfani
Curtis White Kenny Leon

Linguistics Professor at the University of California, Berkeley Geoffrey Nunberg discusses the linguistic power-play that is emerging in one of the most competitive and diverse election cycles yet with his book: Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show. Regular Commentator and Princeton Professor of Religion Dr. Eddie Glaude navigates the fickle marriage between religion and politics. President and CEO of America's Second Harvest . The Nation's Food Bank Network, Vicki Escarra shares her solutions to ridding an approximate 35 million Americans of hunger. Regular Road to Wealth commentator Lynnette Khalfani discusses how to increase your financial IQ by turning yourself from credit victim into credit consumer. Dr. Curtis White offers tangible and borderline mischievous ways to pilot our fragmented political landscape and lives with his new book, The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work. On the eve of the Tony Awards, Director Kenny Leon unveils a raw portrait of African American life, as featured in Playwright August Wilson's four-time Tony Nominated Play Radio Golf.

…All that in the second hour of The Tavis Smiley Show.


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