Signature Events

Talented Tenth HBCU Tour (Multi-city Fall tour 2008)

Bethune Cookman University, Alabama A & M University, University of the District of the Columbia, Southern University at Baton Rouge, South Carolina State University
Sponsor: NAVY
Five-city lecture tour on leadership featuring Tavis Smiley at Historically Black Colleges & Universities.

SuccesSoul Success & Brand Empowerment Conference 2005

(Chicago, IL October 28-29, 2005)
Speakers included: Barack Obama, B. Smith, Maya Angelou, Suze Orman, Iyanla Vanzant, Tavis Smiley, Earvin "Magic" Johnson

Covenant with Black America Town Hall Tour (Multi-city tour)

Multi-city town hall meeting featuring Tavis Smiley, Dr. Cornel West, and local civic and community leaders

St. Louis, New York, Atlanta, Memphis, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Miami, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Detroit, Boston

Road to Health™
(Multi-city tour)

Road to Health™ presents interactive health, wellness and fitness pavilions on cooking and nutrition, fitness, beauty and wellness combined with information packed seminars, medical screenings and referrals, live symposium discussion, celebrity guests, walk-a-thon, indoor and outdoor exercise activities, contests, and literature

Atlanta, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Oakland

Listen. People want to be heard. The more we listen, the more sense we can speak.

Tavis Smiley on PBS

Tavis Smiley on PRI

THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

“Words don't have to be weapons."

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BOOKS BY TAVIS

On Air: The Best of Tavis Smiley

A collector’s edition of Tavis’s hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and action-guided commentaries heard on the Tom Joyner Morning Show during the program’s final years.

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