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Tavis Smiley's Anti-Obama Rants Largely Ignored in Anacostia
By Lauren E. Bohn and Chika Oduah - Politics DailyWASHINGTON – Pages of The Washington Post lay scattered across a torn blue chair in the My Spott barber shop in Anacostia one day last week as " J," 18, watched her friend, Sweetz, get her weekly cut. News about the neighborhood, the poorest in the city's Ward 8, has held prime real estate on the paper's front page recently. Earlier this month, a shooting left four young people dead and five wounded. The following week, the first family celebrated Easter at Allen Chapel AME Church. J is the first to tell you that Ward 8 in Southeast Washington is riddled with poverty, rattled by gun ...
Tavis Smiley: Obama Must 'Live Up to the Honor' of the Nobel Peace Prize
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyAdd Tavis Smiley to the list of commentators with an opinion on President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize. Smiley, in Charlotte, N.C., on Saturday to speak at a financial literacy and economic empowerment seminar aimed at African Americans, acknowledged Obama's role in changing the "tenor and tone in this country and in the world.""I celebrate that" and the prize, he said, before adding that the president's task is "to live up to the honor.""Before honor comes humility," Smiley said, listing previous Peace Prize winners Ralph Bunche, Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela, adding that ...
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