Dear Smiley: After reading Claude Nall’s story about letter writing, I was reminded of a post-Hurricane Katrina find. While going through the flood-ravaged contents of my mother’s house in Chalmette, ...

With only days left in the Obama residency, Tavis Smiley and others are already looking back on the legacy that President Barack Obama is leaving behind. In a letter published by Time magazine, then, ...

In an open letter provided to TheWrap, former PBS host Tavis Smiley said the network will be accusing him of “misappropriating public funds” in the upcoming trial for the lawsuit Smiley filed in ...

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I am writing to request that The Advocate continue in some appropriate format a column like the late and great Smiley Anders provided to us for so many years. With all the negative news we get ...