“I don’t really care so much what people say about me,” Prince told Tavis Smiley in 2004 ... California on February 19, 1985.Getty Images Even before social media, Prince understood ...

User-Created Clip by CSPANCLASSROOM November 10, 2014 2014-11-09T20:12:20-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/d71/20141109201604001_hd.jpgTavis Smiley talks about ...

PBS has suspended distribution of "Tavis Smiley" amid "troubling allegations" against the news show's namesake host. The organization said Wednesday that it had hired an outside law firm to handle ...

On Dec. 13, 2017, PBS issued a statement that they show had been suspended following the allegations, "Effective today, PBS has indefinitely suspended distribution of Tavis Smiley, produced by TS ...

Tavis Smiley has defended what he said were consensual workplace relationships after PBS announced it had suspended his show following an investigation that “uncovered multiple, credible ...

Arriving from the Midwest in the 1980s, Tavis Smiley basked in the glories of Los Angeles. A bright and garrulous college student, he quickly befriended luminaries and charmed his way into a job ...

The new show is likely to have some similarities to Smiley’s former talk show, “BET Tonight,” which he hosted for five years. In 2001, Smiley was booted by BET Chairman Robert Johnson when ...