"Tavis Smiley is the author of Doing What's Right, Hard Left, and On Air. He is a regular political commentator on ""The Tom Joyner Morning Show"" and won a 1999 NAACP Image Award for his own television talk show BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley. He lives in Los Angeles."
A must read. -Black Issues Book Review Carries on the tradition of Frederick Douglass...and W.E.B. DuBois. -St. Petersburg Times Full of spirited, erudite discussion by big names in the black community. -Metro Times (Detroit) Smiley and Co. offer deft advice that encourages us to take positive action to make things right. --Essence Smiley's book carries on the tradition of Frederick Douglass' An Address to the Colored People of the United States and W.E.B. DuBois' Declaration of the Principles of the Niagara Movement. --St. Petersburg Times Full of spirited, erudite discussion by big names in the black community. --Detroit's Metro Times