{"id":283,"date":"2007-10-24T09:54:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T15:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/npt08.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/24\/tavis-smiley-to-appear-at-tsu\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T09:54:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T15:54:53","slug":"tavis-smiley-to-appear-at-tsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2007\/10\/24\/tavis-smiley-to-appear-at-tsu\/","title":{"rendered":"TAVIS SMILEY TO APPEAR AT TSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Tennessean<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/tennessean.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071024\/COLUMNIST0501\/710240454\"><strong>reports<\/strong><\/a> this morning that <strong>Tavis Smiley<\/strong>, host of <em><strong>The Tavis Smiley Show<\/strong><\/em>, will speak at Tennessee State University on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. as part of his Talented Tenth Tour. Tavis&#8217; event is free to the public. To register, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tavistalks.com\">www.tavistalks.com.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><em>The Tavis Smiley Show<\/em><\/strong> can be seen NPT-Channel 8 on Sunday nights at 11:00 p.m.  Smiley also hosted the PBS Presidential Forums in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessean reports this morning that Tavis Smiley, host of The Tavis Smiley Show, will speak at Tennessee State University on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. as part of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,20,36,163],"tags":[2293,2296,1102,1110,1181],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american-culture","category-black-history","category-culture","category-tennessee","tag-npt","tag-pbs","tag-tavis-smiley","tag-tennessee-state-university","tag-tsu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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