Tavis Smiley to Host Black Leaders on C-SPAN

[oasis]

Smiley's 7th Annual "State of the Black Union" will begin at 9:00 am est and continue through the afternoon on CSPAN. Cornell West, Jesse Jackson and Harry Belafonte are among the more than 30 black leaders who are scheduled to appear.

[Skittles]

1. often when I am surfing I stop and watch Tavis

maybe I should just set out to watch him :)

[oasis]

3. Many of the panelists will engage in some hard hitting commentary. Past

events have been eye opening.

[Broken_Hero]

2. Damn...

Makes me want to order Direct TV!!! I like watching Tavis Smileys State of the Black Union. I watched the one on 2004, and 2003, on cspan at my inlaws house...very good, it seems Cornell west is at quite a few of these. The commentary and straight talk, is good...damn, almost makes me want to break into someones house to watch cspan!...i can see it now...

Public Record...

on 2/24/06, at one thirty am, a man, got arrested, for breaking and entering, so he could watch cspan...he also stole a coke, his bail is set at 50,000...:)

[oasis]

4. There will be a repeat on Monday. C-SPAN 2. Invite yourself to dinner.

:-)

[Broken_Hero]

5. I should!

but my inlaws only got the basic cable package, only 20 channels, and cpsan isn't one of them...:(

[1932]

8. I've wathced it on CSPAN's website in the past.

If you have a fast internet connection, you're all set.

[joanski0]

6. Tavis was on Washington Journal yesterday and

said he would be making a big announcement at the afternoon session. It had something to do with both the DNC and RNC agreeing about something to help them. Tavis said he would be making the announcement after 1:00 p.m.

[joanski0]

7. Kick. n/t

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9. On the first hour of Tavis's most recent show, he was talking to people

involved in the '60s civil rights struggle from the very start (john lewis had an incredible story about how he first met MLK -- he applied to a college, never heard from them, wrote MLK a letter, MLK bought him a bus ticket to Montgomery, MLK's lawyer picked him up at the station, brought him to MLK's office, MLK said, "you're the boy from Troy?" and the rest was history).

Anyway, Tavis made the point that, today, he can go on the Tom Joyner Show and reach 12 million black Americans. Back in the 60s, there was nothing like that. There was no media aparatus where you could instantly communicate with any significant number of black Americans.

It was an interesting point. And that 12 million number -- that's interesting too. I think the daily audience for NPR is about 11 million -- 11 million people listen to NPR each day. I think the evening national news only gets, cummulatively, 15 million people.

12 million. That's a big number. I'm impressed.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Thanks for the alert. I've watched this before. It's very good.

I always stumbled across it surfing, as someone already mentioned. It's going to be great knowing in advance this year.
Very kind of you, oasis, for sharing.

[oasis]

11. Great program so far. Informative to the max. (n/t)