Advisor and consultant Thomas P.M. Barnett assesses the threats and strategies needed to meet them in the coming years in his new book, Great Powers: America and the World After Bush. Dr. Cornel West celebrates the confluence of Coltrane, Carnegie Hall and consummate operatic diva Jessye Norman. Myron Rolle tells how he went about choosing Oxford over an immediate NFL career after winning a 2009 Rhodes Scholarship. George Johnson sizes up March Madness and what we can expect in the annual college basketball tournament. Music artists Joe Sample and Randy Crawford are back together once again and like their new CD says, they have No Regrets.
…All this and more in the first hour of The Tavis Smiley Show!
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Hour Two March 20, 2009.
William Julius Wilson
Dr. Eddie Glaude
Karen Chilton
James McEachin
Adam Bradley
Harvard Professor William Julius Wilson takes a hard look at the debates about why poverty persists in Black America in his new book, More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City. Dr. Eddie Glaude gives his impression of why there are fewer professed Christians in 2009 and what that means for religion overall. For Women's History Month, author Karen Chilton, takes a deeper look into the life and spirit of a jazz great in her new book Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC. Multifaceted entertainer James McEachin weaves his military service and thespian skills together for his one-man show, Above the Call, Beyond the Duty. Author and literature expert Adam Bradley defends the literary merit of rap with his new book, Book of Rhymes, The Poetics of Hip Hop.
…All this and more in the second hour of The Tavis Smiley Show!
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