Tavis Smiley

Community builder Vanity Constance recalls the days when she helped remove the Wilmington, Delaware statue of slaveholder Caesar Rodney - and what it means that the Trump administration will put it on display in Washington, D.C. this summer. 

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Leta McCollough Seletzky, author of the 2023 text, “The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” explains how she learned to accept Marrell "Mac" McCollough’s secret CIA past.

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Author, scholar, leading public intellectual, and special contributor, Dr. Cornel West, gives his insights about the Pentagon threatening the Pope for criticizing Trump, the fragile U.S. - Iran ceasefire and more. 

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Ashley Etienne, former communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris, explains how she is getting Congressional Democrats, including minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, ready to win and lead.

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Ricco Ross, star of the Netflix series "Beauty in Black," joins Tavis in studio to preview the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation “Honors: Legacy & Leadership Gala,” which he is hosting on April 16, in celebration of 50 years of impact. 

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Sonequa Martin-Green and David Ajala, best known as Michael Burnham and Cleveland Booker, join Tavis in studio to celebrate 10 years since their seminal series, Star Trek: Discovery, started its long production journey and their latest projects as detectives in Boston Blue and Law & Order.

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Neil Maher, history professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University–Newark, unpacks the complicated relationship between America’s space race and the civil rights movement as Artemis II is piloted back to Earth by a Black astronaut.

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Dr. Marilyn Thomas, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, goes inside her new study, which found that attending an HBCU is good for your long-term health.

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Shermichael Singleton, conservative CNN contributor and co-founder of We The Free TV streaming network, talks about Trump backtracking on his ending “civilization” threats to Iran and the impact of his global blustering on both parties.

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NBA All-Star, former mayor of Sacramento, and founder of the National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2), Kevin Johnson, talks to Tavis about today being National Black Bookstore Day and why it’s important to preserve Black stories.

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