Jim Wallis, theologian and editor of Sojourners magazine and former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell discuss how significant “value voters” will be in the 2008 election. Dr. Eddie Glaude ponders how one should try to remain hopeful despite the despondent news each day. Lynnette Khalfani has 5 new ways to save 3 times faster in our Road to Wealth segment. Dr. Rachael Ross explains the disparity in aggressive breast cancer treatment for black women. George Johnson ruminates on the return of Marion Jones’ Olympic medals. Writer/director Tyler Perry explains how a single guy manages to make Why Did I Get Married?, his new movie about the challenges of matrimony.

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

Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein and president of Bennett College for Women Dr. Julianne Malveaux remember the stock market crash of 1987 and draw parallels to the present stock market. Dr. Cornel West sheds light on the ongoing atrocities in Uganda that have enveloped the country for more than twenty years. Princeton Sociologist Katherine S. Newman explores the plights of families that are often one divorce or brief hospital stay away from sinking into poverty in her book, The Missing Class; Portraits of the Near Poor in America. Assistant Managing Editor for Education at US News and World Report, Kenneth Terrell highlights his list of the best HBCUs. Lauren Kinhan and Darmon Meader of the Grammy Award-winning quartet New York Voices share the history and multicultural musical influences in constructing their latest CD, A Day Like This.

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