The HistoryMakers video oral history with Tavis Smiley.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 4 min., 22 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2001.069
Subjects

Other author/creatorSmiley, Tavis, 1964- interviewee.
Other author/creatorRichardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Other author/creatorStearns, Scott, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Tavis Smiley
Portion of title Tavis Smiley
Abstract Television host and author Tavis Smiley was born on September 13, 1964, in Gulfport, Mississippi. The third of ten children, he grew up near an Air Force base in Kokomo, Indiana. Smiley spent a semester interning in the office of Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. Graduating from Indiana University with a B. S. degree in public affairs, he returned to Los Angeles working as an adviser to the City Council president. Smiley later started the Smiley Report, a radio news commentary, before starting his own television talk show on BET, Tonight with Tavis Smiley. The show earned national recognition for its eclectic programming. Since his departure from BET, Smiley served as a correspondent for Prime Time Thursday, Good Morning America, and a commentator for CNN and National Public Radio, and host of The Tavis Smiley Show on the Public Broadcasting Service. He authored five books, including How to Make Black America Better.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Los Angeles, California 2001 June 26.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2001.069 HistoryMakers