Tavis Smiley

Adrinda “Dri” Kelly, executive director of the organization Black Education for New Orleans (BE NOLA), and Stevona "Stevie" Elem-Rogers, her chief of community programs and partnership, tell us how they are rebuilding the city’s learning pipeline, 20 years after Hurricane Katrina.

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Dr. Cornel West, scholar, leading public intellectual, author, and special contributor, talks about the impact of the Greensboro sit-in, in light of the recent death of civil rights pioneer Joseph McNeil.

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Associate Professor and Founding Director of The Race, Politics, and Policy Center at George Mason University, Dr Michael K. Fauntroy gives his perspective on how  Trump's war on Black America isn't an accident but a strategy, along with other trending political topics. 

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U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) explains why he is warning his Republican colleagues pushing for Trump’s gerrymandering plan to “dig three graves” - one for the GOP, one for the Democrats, and one for the Republic.

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Robert Livingston, social psychologist and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, goes inside his new text, “Play the Game. Change the Game. Leave the Game. Pathways to Black Empowerment, Prosperity, and Joy.”

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John Nichols, the Executive Editor for The Nation magazine, gives his perspective about the future of labor for American workers and how Democrats try to regroup, facing the crossroad of progressivism versus moderate appeal.

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Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., President and CEO of The Hip-Hop Caucus and co-founder of Climate Revival, shares his thoughts about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the climate and the pursuit of social justice, from then to now.

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Danielle Moodie, host of “The Danielle Moodie Show” on YouTube, co-host of As The World Churns and co-host of “Democracyish" podcast, gives her analysis about Trump now considering sending troops to New Orleans, instead of Chicago, and other trending political stories.

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Kevin Johnson, three time NBA All-Star and former Mayor of Sacramento, CA joins Tavis for a career conversation about basketball, politics and why he founded the National Association of Black Bookstores.

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Spike Lee takes us inside two of his latest joints, the film “Highest 2 Lowest” starring Denzel Washington and the Netflix docuseries “Katrina: Come Hell And High Water”.

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