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<title><![CDATA[Tavis Smiley - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/26010.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Tavis Smiley]]></description><category domain="26010">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Other Tragedy of the Chicago Torture Video]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tavis Smiley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[All four suspects in the Chicago torture video now face charges of aggravated battery, hate crimes and kidnapping. See Jordon, Tesfaye, Brittany and Tanishia. See the crime they committed. See how swift justice is dispensed when the perpetrators, rather than the victims, are black....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Listen to the Baton Rouge Police Killer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/07/18/baton-rouge-shooter-gavin-long-black-lives-obama-tavis-smiley-column/87245690/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tavis Smiley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I think the chances are pretty good that the White House just days from now will announce that President Obama intends to travel to Baton Rouge to pay tribute to the slain police officers there. I could be wrong, but I can't imagine him not going now, even though he ignored calls for a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Obama Going Only to Dallas?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/07/10/tavis-smiley-why-obama-going-only-dallas/86921394/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tavis Smiley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Given the carnage in Dallas last week that left five police officers dead, the White House has announced that President Obama will travel to Dallas.Some are asking why not Falcon Heights, Minn. andBaton Rouge, La., where Philando Castile and Alton Sterling died at the hands of police?...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Black America Could Get on Trump Train]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/03/01/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-black-voters-primary-elections-2016-column/81150932/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tavis Smiley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With Hillary Clinton racking up more overwhelming victories in Super Tuesday primaries thanks to the overwhelming support of African-American voters, the conventional wisdom is that she has the black vote on lock down. She might be wrong.Clinton has already been endorsed by most members...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Oscars Can Do Better]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/01/25/oscars-nominees-boycott-race-diversity-hollywood-tavis-smiley-column/79312384/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tavis Smiley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the Academy Award nominations were announced on Jan. 14, there have been calls forboycotts, various protest hashtags in social media and assorted roundtable discussions. This year&rsquo;s host, Chris Rock, is no doubt experiencing the kind of euphoria that any comedian would die...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Racism, Guns and Healing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tavis-smiley/5-lessons-charleston-can_b_7646520.html?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000090</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tavis Smiley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After last week's massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, there should have been no question of guilt, or motivation. Dylann Roof made it clear what he did, and why, long before his confession. And yet, the media has bungled so much of it, from beginning to, if not the end, then the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Protests and Riots Could Become the New Normal]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/3841467/tavis-smiley-racism-poverty-new-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tavis Smiley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The two seminal pieces of Legislation in the 20th century happened just before the tumult of 1968&ndash;the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Fifty years later, we ought to be in a season of celebration. Instead, we find ourselves in an American catastrophe....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stand Your Ground, Unless You're a Black Man]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/07/15/tavis_smiley_you_can_stand_your_ground_unless_youre_a_black_man.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tavis Smiley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[DAN ABRAMS: And I want to hear from the jurors, by the way, in this case, because we don't know just based on what we've heard now, whether these jurors believe George Zimmerman or not.TAVIS SMILEY: Well, what we do know, Dan, though, at least as it appears to me, you can stand your...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama and Dr. Martin Luther King's Legacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57564890/tavis-smiley-on-obama-and-mlks-legacy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tavis Smiley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Hussein Obama will be sworn in as president tomorrow for a second term, on the holiday honoring the person I have long regarded as the greatest American this nation has ever produced. Obama will be in the foreground, but Martin Luther King, Jr. is the backdrop.I've heard people...]]></description>
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