Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, best-selling authors and great thinkers on the race narrative, talk about living in a promised America, a country free of racism, inequity, poverty and despair. It’s a conversation made more urgent by one Black man’s unlikely bid, then inspired election as the first Black president.

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Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom

Princeton professor and Bennett College president debate the Democratic Party acceptance speech of Sen. Barack Obama.

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Hosted By: Tavis Smiley
When: Tuesday Dec 18, 2007
at 7:30 PM
Where: Element
1642 N. Las Palmas
Los Angeles, CA 90028
United States
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Tavis Smiley

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On the Bill Maher show, Mos Def says he doesn’t believe there is a bin Laden or that we have much to fear from terrorism: “I’m from the projects, I know fear.” Cornel West chimes in to explain the psychology of being terrorized in your own country and the natural skepticism that results.

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