Tavis Smiley

Tavis Smiley

"Tavis Smiley" is the flagship program for KBLA, America's newest progressive radio network and LA's first Black-owned talk station. Broadcast live across southern California on 1580AM and around the world on KBLA1580.com and TuneIn, this podcast presents the best of Tavis Smiley's conversations with activists, influencers, thought leaders, and cultural vanguards. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tavis-smiley--6286410/support.

Episodes

Barbara Arnwine & Daryl Jones join Tavis Smiley

July 22, 2025 • 38 mins
Barbara Arnwine, founder and president of The Transformative Justice Coalition (TJC) and Daryl Jones, co-leader and Board chair of the TJC, talk about the "Good Trouble Lives On" protests that took place on the 5th year commemoration of the death of Congressman John Lewis.

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Dr. Cornel West joins Tavis Smiley

July 22, 2025 • 38 mins
Dr. Cornel West, public intellectual and Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary, kicks off his new twice-weekly conversation with Tavis, Mondays and Thursdays.

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Sean Hannity joins Tavis Smiley

July 22, 2025 • 40 mins
Tavis goes to head-to-head with Sean Hannity, host of his eponymous program on the Fox News Channel as well as “Wanted: Dead or Alive” on Fox Nation.

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Stacey & Joaquin Loper Joins Tavis Smiley

July 18, 2025 • 10 mins
Stacey and Joaquin Loper, co-stars of the new series “Back to the Frontier,” take us inside their family’s 1880s world of no phones, no makeup, and no running water. 

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Michael Brown Joins Tavis Smiley

July 18, 2025 • 29 mins
Michael Brown, former FEMA administrator and now host of the podcast The Situation, is back with his take on the recent flooding disasters and reflections on Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago this summer.

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D.D. Guttenplan Joins Tavis Smiley

July 18, 2025 • 37 mins
D.D. Guttenplan, editor of The Nation magazine and host of The Nation podcast, shares their blockbuster 160th anniversary issue titled “These Dis-United States.”

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Bill Kristol Joins Tavis Smiley

July 18, 2025 • 36 mins
Bill Kristol, editor-at-large of The Bulwark, is back to break down the messy break up between President Trump and the MAGA movement and other trending political topics. 

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Robin Givhan joins Tavis Smiley

July 17, 2025 • 36 mins
Robin Givhan, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and former fashion editor, takes us inside her newest text “Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh.”

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William “Sandy” Darity joins Tavis Smiley

July 17, 2025 • 17 mins
Professor and Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, William “Sandy” Darity is back with his take on the impact of the Big Ugly Tax Bill and other Trump policies on the growing wealth inequality.

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Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. joins Tavis Smiley

July 17, 2025 • 22 mins
Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. from the Cherokee Nation is back with an update on their slavery task force and the impact of the Job Corps shutdown, which is paused for now.

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Peter Beinart joins Tavis Smiley

July 17, 2025 • 37 mins
Peter Beinart, Editor-at-Large for Jewish Currents and CUNY journalist professor, goes inside his new book “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning” and shares his thoughts about why MAGA allies are turning on Trump.

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Sheléa joins Tavis Smiley

July 16, 2025 • 25 mins
Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, pianist, and actress Sheléa is back to preview her tribute to her mentor, Quincy Jones, at Disney Hall in Los Angeles this weekend as part of The Inner City Youth Orchestra’s Season Finale Concert.

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Claire Babineaux-Fontenot joins Tavis Smiley

July 16, 2025 • 33 mins
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America and one of TIME Magazine’s Women of the Year (2025), breaks down the real-life hunger games that too many Americans are forced to play, as they face “the largest cut to SNAP in history.”

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Maurice “Moe” Mitchell joins Tavis Smiley

July 16, 2025 • 32 mins
Maurice “Moe” Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party, explains why “fusion voting” is the way forward for progressives who want to win.

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Alec Karakatsanis joins Tavis Smiley

July 14, 2025 • 39 mins
Founder and director of Civil Rights Corps, Alec Karakatsanis is back to take us inside of his new book "Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News," as he explains the power and impact of the police narrative on our policies and culture.

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Shanelle Matthews and Marzena Zukowska join Tavis Smiley

July 14, 2025 • 36 mins
Shanelle Matthews, former communications director for the Movement for Black Lives, and immigrant rights organizer Marzena Zukowska, share their new book “Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st-Century Social Movements.”

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Ruben Navarrette joins Tavis Smiley

July 14, 2025 • 16 mins
Nationally syndicated columnist for The Creators Syndicate, Ruben Navarette, discusses the latest developments in the Texas flood response fallout and how this administration stopped making sense, as we slouch toward fascism.

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Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead joins Tavis Smiley

July 14, 2025 • 22 mins
Professor of African American studies, award-winning talk show host and Founding Director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice at Loyola University Maryland, Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead talks about the upcoming in-person-only summer school Democracy Defenders - Summer Seminar and Summit, and other political topics.

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Speech joins Tavis Smiley

July 11, 2025 • 31 mins
Speech, the two-time Grammy Award-winning founder of the iconic hip-hop collective Arrested Development, talks about their new album Adult Contemporary Hip Hop and why we need “life music” now more than ever.

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Roeshana Moore-Evans joins Tavis Smiley

July 11, 2025 • 35 mins
Roeshana Moore-Evans, founder and principal strategist of Equity Empowerment, takes us inside her former role as the inaugural Executive Director of the Harvard Legacy of Slavery Initiative.

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