The Covenant with Black America by Tavis Smiley

The Covenant with Black America by Tavis Smiley

In 2006, Tavis Smiley teamed up with other leaders in the Black community to create a national plan of action to address the ten most crucial issues facing African Americans. The Covenant with Black America, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller, ran the gamut from health care to criminal justice, affordable housing to education, voting rights to racial divides. But a decade later, Black men still fall to police bullets and brutality, Black women still die from preventable diseases, Black children still struggle to get a high quality education, the digital divide and environmental inequality still persist, and American cities from Ferguson to Baltimore burn with frustration. In short, the last decade has seen the evaporation of Black wealth, with Black fellow citizens having lost ground in nearly every leading economic category.

So Smiley calls for a renewal of The Covenant, presenting in this new edition the original action plan--with a new foreword and conclusion--alongside fresh data from the Indiana University School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA) to underscore missed opportunities and the work that remains to be done. While life for far too many African Americans remains a struggle, the great freedom fighter Frederick Douglass was right: If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
With Smiley leading the charge, the time has come to finally convert the trials and tribulations of Black America into the progress that all of America yearns for.

Smiley was the first American to host distinctive discussion shows on both PBS and NPR, with his late-night television chat show Tavis Smiley and his radio show The Tavis Smiley Show. Smiley's TV show is the first in PBS history to be broadcast from the West Coast. PRI, Public Radio International, currently distributes the Tavis Smiley Show on public radio. On weekdays, he can be heard on The Smiley Report, a nationally syndicated commentary. Tavis also contributes political commentary to Tom Joyner's nationally syndicated morning show.

Tavis is the author of nine books, including On Air and Keeping the Faith, an uplifting anthology of personal stories about love, loss, and faith written by African Americans from all walks of life. He is the creator of the Tavis Smiley Foundation as well. www.TavisTalks.com is his website.

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ISBN 13	9780883782774
ISBN 10	0883782774
Title	The Covenant with Black America
Author	Tavis Smiley
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Third World Press,U.S.
Year published	2006-02-22
Number of pages	254
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