Tavis Smiley

Ruth E. Carter, two-time Oscar-winning costume designer, joins Tavis in studio for a career conversation, including the story behind Eddie Murphy's red leather suit, and expands on her comments in the new documentary, "Being Eddie".

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Marshall Shepherd, geography professor at the University of Georgia and director of its atmospheric sciences program, lays out the three kinds of bias that shape our worldview, particularly around climate change and weather.

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Danielle Moodie, CEO and founder of DAM Media Strategies and host of “The "Danielle Moodie Show” on YouTube, gives her analysis about the Trump administration's fraud crackdown of SNAP and other trending political topics.

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Dr. Cornel West, scholar, leading public intellectual, author, and special contributor, shares his thoughts about the integration of schools 65 years ago by Ruby Bridges and more.

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Decoteau J. Irby, University of Illinois Chicago professor and co-editor and co-author of “Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change”, looks at the impact of the DEI pushback on school administrators, teachers, and our children.

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John Nichols, executive editor of The Nation magazine, is back with his insider’s view of post-shutdown Washington and what the Democrats will do with their election mandate.

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U.S. Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) is back with his new memoir, “The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation”.

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NAACP award-winning historian and Fulbright scholar Karida Brown, Emory University sociology professor, goes inside her two latest texts, “The Battle for the Black Mind” and “The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families”.

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Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, outgoing CEO of Feeding America, is back with her insider’s view of the hunger crisis in America - and the latest updates on SNAP funding.

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Josh Paul and Tariq Habash, founders of A New Policy, share what it was like to resign from their government jobs in protest of the Biden administration’s policy toward Gaza - and where their work and witness will take them next.

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