Tavis Smiley
News & Politics Podcasts
"Tavis Smiley" is the flagship program for KBLA, America's newest progressive radio network and LA's first Black-owned talk station. Broadcast live across southern California on 1580AM and around the world on KBLA1580.com and TuneIn, this podcast...
Location:
United States
Genres:
News & Politics Podcasts
Description:
"Tavis Smiley" is the flagship program for KBLA, America's newest progressive radio network and LA's first Black-owned talk station. Broadcast live across southern California on 1580AM and around the world on KBLA1580.com and TuneIn, this podcast presents the best of Tavis Smiley's conversations with activists, influencers, thought leaders, and cultural vanguards. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tavis-smiley--6286410/support.
Twitter:
@kbla1580
Language:
English
Contact:
323-290-4690
Website:
https://kbla1580.com/
Episodes
Clara Ester Joins Tavis Smiley
4/3/2026
Clara Ester, who was a 19-year-old college student when she witnessed the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Lorraine Hotel on April 4, 1968, after attending his final speech the night before, reflects on her unique experience that fateful week.
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Duration:00:17:57
Trina Greene Joins Tavis Smiley
4/3/2026
Trina Greene, CSU Fullerton professor and founder of Parenting for Liberation, contrasts recent pro-spanking arguments by Charles Barkley and Stephen A. Smith with the nonviolent teachings of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.
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Duration:00:22:31
Colonel Pamela Stevenson Joins Tavis Smiley
4/3/2026
This year, Kentucky could vote for a real colonel. Current Kentucky House Minority Floor Leader and retired Air Force Col. Pam Stevenson explains why she is running for the U.S. Senate seat left open by its longtime occupier, Mitch McConnell.
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Duration:00:16:38
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen Joins Tavis Smiley
4/3/2026
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) returns to the program live from Memphis, where local residents are processing the looming date of April 4, with his reaction to President Donald Trump’s speech about the war against Iran.
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Duration:00:22:02
James Peterson Joins Tavis Smiley
4/3/2026
Dr. James Peterson, writer, educator, and host of Evening WURDS on WURD (900 AM and 96.1 FM) in Philadelphia, PA, gives his analysis about trending political topics.
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Duration:00:40:44
Lisa Graves Joins Tavis Smiley
4/1/2026
Lisa Graves, co-founder of the judicial advocacy organization Court Accountability and co-host of the podcast Legal AF, shares her insights about the landmark birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court.
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Duration:00:38:23
Jon Ralston Joins Tavis Smiley
4/1/2026
Jon Ralston, political journalist and founder of The Nevada Independent, talks about his book The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight.
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Duration:00:16:49
Ruth Buffalo Joins Tavis Smiley
4/1/2026
Former North Dakota representative and Indigenous activist Ruth Buffalo reflects on the NoDAPL (No Dakota Access Pipeline) movement at Standing Rock 10 years ago and what’s next for sacred, ancestral lands.
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Duration:00:21:52
Ryan Grim Joins Tavis Smiley
4/1/2026
Ryan Grim, co-founder of Drop Site News, returns with his analysis about trending political topics, including Trump’s federal voting list, the Iran war, and more.
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Duration:00:39:54
Michael Harriot Joins Tavis Smiley
4/1/2026
Michael Harriot, award-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated TV writer, and New York Times bestselling author of Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America, talks about the future of Black history, the upcoming “Reporting While Black” symposium at Howard University, and more.
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Duration:00:39:03
Martha S. Jones Joins Tavis Smiley
4/1/2026
Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins historian, legal scholar, and author of the 2018 text Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, takes us inside this week’s U.S. Supreme Court arguments about this seminal case.
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Duration:00:22:29
Rich Logis Joins Tavis Smiley
4/1/2026
Rich Logis, founder of Leaving MAGA, returns with his brand new memoir, One Betrayal Too Many: Why I Left MAGA.
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Duration:00:15:14
Connie Rice Joins Tavis Smiley
4/1/2026
Connie Rice, civil rights attorney and co-founder of the Urban Peace Institute, shares her analysis about a potential draft for the Iran war, birthright citizenship, and other trending political topics.
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Duration:00:39:11
Jaron Lanier Joins Tavis Smiley
3/31/2026
Jaron Lanier, visionary computer scientist and futurist, is back to lay out the future road ahead for social media following the Meta/YouTube verdict.
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Duration:00:17:36
Anna Lembke
3/31/2026
Anna Lembke, Stanford University professor and psychiatrist, talks about her testimony in the victorious lawsuit against Meta and YouTube - and marks 65 years since the signing of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, laying the foundation for mass incarceration.
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Duration:00:23:14
Jade Lambert-Smith Joins Tavis Smiley
3/30/2026
Jade Lambert-Smith, Spelman College professor and director of their new musical production of “The Color Purple,” reflects on the legacy of alum Alice Walker’s seminal work as part of their “Black Joy as Resistance” season.
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Duration:00:13:15
Dr. Cornel West Joins Tavis Smiley
3/30/2026
Leading public intellectual, author, scholar, and special contributor, Dr. Cornel West gives his analysis about the No Kings nationwide protests and more.
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Duration:00:21:30
Marcus Anthony Hunter Joins Tavis Smiley
3/30/2026
Marcus Anthony Hunter, professor, founding chair of the Department of African American Studies at UCLA and author of “Radical Reparations: Healing The Soul Of A Nation,” shares his thoughts about the U.N. reparations resolution and other trending political topics.
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Duration:00:26:54
Ray Winbush Joins Tavis Smiley
3/27/2026
Professor, Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University and author of Should America Pay: Slavery and the Raging Debate about Reparations, Dr. Ray Winbush talks about the U.N. calls for reparations to remedy the “historical wrongs” of trafficking enslaved Africans.
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Duration:00:36:58
Dr. Anahita Dua Joins Tavis Smiley
3/27/2026
Dr. Anahita Dua, founder and chair of Healthcare for Action, the largest Democratic Super PAC in the country, lays out the winning message for Democrats for the midterms and beyond.
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Duration:00:16:21