Tavis Smiley

Scholar, distinguished professor, author, leading public intellectual, and special contributor, Dr. Cornel West, shares his thoughts about the unfortunate and controversial death of college professor Jason Arday and more.

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Eli Attie, Emmy Award-winning TV writer and former speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore, gives his analysis on trending political topics.

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Vocalist, composer, educator, and visual artist Carmen Lundy joins Tavis in studio to discuss being named a 2026 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, her new album, Notes From The Wine Cellar, and her illustrious career.

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Jacob Grumbach, an associate professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, shares insights from his latest study finding that DEI policies brought no financial penalty for companies that kept them.

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Scholar, distinguished professor, author, leading public intellectual, and special contributor, Dr. Cornel West, shares his thoughts about the ballooning national debt and more.

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Justin Baragona, Zeteo’s media columnist, gives his diagnosis of the growing epidemic of Mamdani Derangement Syndrome, including criticism from the former spokesperson for First Lady Jill Biden, and other trending political stories.

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Lynn Sweet, former Washington, D.C. bureau chief and now Special Correspondent for the Chicago Sun-Times, explains how her light-hearted search for President Obama's tan suit has reopened the serious debate about the consequential effect of the 2014 press conference on his foreign policy legacy. 

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Actor and musician Michael V. Epps, aka Mikey, shares his thoughts about the end of the highly acclaimed series The Chi, where he played Jake 

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Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy and a professorial fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford, takes us inside of his new book, "Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal And How It Could Save Democracy," co-written with Taeku Lee, as they reveal how shared anger of citizens can be channeled to reinvigorate fallen democracies. 

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Democratic Mayor Cavalier Johnson of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, talks about how the city has become a pipeline for the next generation of Black male political leadership, given the rise of gubernatorial candidate David Crowley, and how Democrats can win men in the Midwest for the midterms.

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