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...hottest ticket in town last Friday was for “A Conversation with Stephen Colbert” at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum. Across campus, a different kind of conversation was taking place. Television and radio talk-show host Tavis Smiley spoke about the state of black America before an older, mostly African American audience in Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School...
...Both Smiley and Colbert have their own late-night TV shows, but “The Tavis Smiley Show,” which airs on PBS (WGBH/Channels 2 and 44 locally), bears little resemblance to Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” Smiley specializes in conducting wide-ranging interviews with interesting people—both famous and not so famous—while Colbert specializes in skewering politicians and the right-wing pundits upon whom his character is based. It’s no wonder that Colbert drew a larger college crowd...
...Smiley may not be as famous or as funny as Colbert, but he’s just as relevant. This newspaper published a 1000-word web update on Friday about Colbert’s appearance and ran the story on the front page of Monday’s paper. Unfortunately, the Smiley event was overlooked. Thus, I offer my own account below...
...opening remarks, Smiley spoke eloquently about the importance of asking why things are the way they are. He quoted Socrates (“the unexamined life is not worth living”) and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who he said had the greatest influence on his life. Then he introduced Princeton professor Cornel R. West...
West strode to the podium in his black suit and tightly-wrapped neck scarf and expounded on the contributions that “brother Tavis” has made to the dialogue about race in America. One such contribution, he said, is a book that Smiley put together called “The Covenant with Black America.” Published earlier this year and known simply as “The Covenant,” the book is a collection of essays by African American experts in various fields—including medicine, education, and technology—about...