Tavis Smiley
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tavis Smiley recounts the story of his friendship with Maya Angelou. Tavis Smiley and Maya Angelou met in 1986, when he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often of art, politics, history, music, religion, and race. In My Journey with Maya, Smiley beautifully recounts a friendship filled with conversation that began when he, a recent college...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Leading African American politicians, writers, thinkers, and artists explore the challenges confronting African American society, discussing such issues as affirmative action, crime, racial harmony, family life, and political power.
Publisher
The Smiley Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Program looks at the efforts by those on the frontlines of juvenile justice reform and what programs are successful in breaking the school-to-prison pipeline. Smiley takes his cameras to Washington State, Louisiana, Missouri and California to meet educators, law enforcement, judges, youth advocates, and the at-risk teens themselves who are working together to get kids out of the juvenile justice system, back into high school and through to graduation....
