About The Tavis Smiley Show from NPR

Launched in January 2002, The Tavis Smiley Show from NPR is a daily, one-hour magazine program hosted by author and broadcaster Tavis Smiley. NPR's first program to originate from Los Angeles, The Tavis Smiley Show offers intelligent talk, news and commentary from fresh, diverse points of view, and reports on everything from politics to pop culture.

Host Tavis Smiley has been named by Time magazine as one of America's 50 most promising young leaders. Newsweek profiled him as one of the "20 people changing how Americans get their news" and dubbed him one of the nation's "captains of the airwaves."

The program features a high-profile cast of regular guests, including scholars Cornel West and Charles Ogletree, religion professor Michael Eric Dyson, technology guru Omar Wasow, law professor Kimberly Crenshaw and University of California regent Ward Connerly. On Fridays, the show takes a lighter tone, as guests such as comedians Paul Mooney and Cheryl Underwood offer a humorous take on current events.

The Tavis Smiley Show is the result of an ongoing collaboration between NPR and a consortium of African-American public radio stations, including WCLK-FM in Atlanta, Ga.; WNCU-FM in Durham, N.C.; WJSU in Jackson, Miss.; and WEAA in Baltimore, Md.