San Bernardino County Sun
Television host and author Tavis Smiley was at San Bernardino Valley College Thursday night, where he discussed poverty. Read more…
What’s the Matter with Kansas? Nothing a Renewed War on Poverty Can’t Fix
What’s the matter with Kansas? Quite a bit, according to Tavis Smiley. Starting with Governor Sam Brownback, who has been speaking out of one side of his mouth about morality, while Read more…
Manuel Pastor raises awareness of local poverty levels
Manuel Pastor, left, with Tavis Smiley, Maria Brenes, executive director of Inner City Struggle, and Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Read more…
Tavis Smiley: Still separate, still unequal
Sixty years after the Supreme Court’s landmark school desegregation decision rendered in Brown v. Board of Education, care to venture a guess on the most integrated state for black students? How about the states that are the most segregated? If you guessed West Virginia for most integrated, and California and New York as most segregated, you’d be right. Read more…
Poverty Less Than .02 Percent of Lead Media Coverage
Mar 7, 2014 – Did you know that poverty represents less than 0.02 percent of lead media coverage? Compare that with prominent news topics: …read more
Poverty in America: A Roundtable Discussion
Jan 10, 2014 – Among my guests was Greg Kaufmann, who writes about poverty for … In the clip below, he shares his views about whether — 50 years after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared War on Poverty — there is …read more
Ending Poverty: Let’s Talk | Tavis Smiley – Huffington Post
Oct 28, 2013 – How is it, with one out of two fellow citizens living in or near poverty in the richest nation in the history of the world, we cannot engage a national …read more