By: Jenée Desmond-Harris Posted: September 11, 2012 at 12:26 AM Cornel West and Tavis Smiley want the issue addressed in the debates and on the next president’s agenda. (The Root) — Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, hosts of the nationally syndicated public-radio program Smiley & West, remain as determined as ever to put the issue of poverty — which Smiley has called “the new slavery” — higher on the...

(AllHipHop News) Educator/rapper Dr. Cornel West and veteran TV broadcaster Tavis Smiley, co-hosts of the syndicated “Smiley & West” radio show, will launch “The Poverty Tour 2.0: A Call to Conscience” this month. The mini-tour will hit six different states, with a town hall event being held at Delaware State University, which will tackle the issues surrounding both President Barack Obama and hopeful Mitt Romney, in the upcoming...

A new report from “Capital Kids” reveals that the childhood poverty rate is worse in Washington, D.C., than in Mexico. We anticipate that the official poverty numbers being released this Wednesday will confirm that across the nation, children are paying the price for our political indifference to poverty in America. Demographers tell us that child poverty will almost certainly increase from its 22% level in 2010. As if 22%...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Leshelle Sargent lsargent@tavistalks.com Phone: (323) 404-1602    “THE POVERTY TOUR 2.0” HITS THE ROAD IN FOUR BATTLEGROUND STATES Tavis Smiley and Cornel West kick off the tour in Ohio, September 12, coinciding with the release of a new U.S. Census Bureau report on poverty   WASHINGTON, DC (September 10, 2012) — The U.S. Census Bureau is expected to announce this Wednesday, September 12, that America’s...

Smiley: “That is consistent all across the country. The one percent continues to do well. We are all suffering. This is not an urban or suburban issue. Poverty is the new American norm.” PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley will speak at The Poverty Forum Sept. 28th at the Lexington Convention Center. Tickets are $50 for the 6 p.m. dinner event to benefit the nonprofit Community Action Council. / Copyright 2004 The Courier-Journal;YES...

In a recent column, Bill Moyers and Michael Winship wrote, “When it comes to our ‘out of sight, out of mind’ population of the poor, you have to think we can help reduce their number, ease the suffering, and speak out, with whatever means at hand, on their behalf and against those who would prefer they remain invisible. Speak out: that means you and me, and yes, Mr. President, you, too.” In the past year, it’s hard to imagine how...