Tavis Smiley Foundation
You can't save the people if you won't serve the people. Studies show when give an opportunity to learn about leadership at an early age, teens are more likely to graduate high school, attend college and become active and productive engaged citizens.
11/11/2013
Young People: Don't let your social media postings mess up your college application.
They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets. More colleges are finding the social media posts of their applicants — and sometimes denying admission as a result.
10/28/2013
From my new piece on Huffington Post:
How is it, with one out of two fellow citizens living in or near poverty in the richest nation in the history of the world, we cannot engage a national conversation about alleviating endemic poverty in America?
Think of it this way. If one of every two Americans --- half the nation --- was living with HIV/AIDS, was unable to read or write, or was recently diagnosed with some form of cancer, would we deem it a national emergency worthy of immediate action? Of course we would. So why is poverty in America being rendered invisible even as millions of Americans are trapped in it?
Read more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tavis-smiley/ending-poverty-lets-talk_b_4169393.html
Ending Poverty: Let's Talk Ending Poverty: Let's Talk - The Huffington Post
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10/16/2013