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Tavis Smiley Attempting Comeback Bid Three Years After PBS Firing
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Three years after workplace misconduct allegations led to his firing at PBS, veteran TV and radio talk-show host Tavis Smiley is speaking out.
Smiley, who to this day denies the allegations made against him, purchased KBLA 1510, a Los Angeles radio station that will offer a Black and progressive perspective on the city and nation. The station made its debut last weekend to coincide with Juneteenth.
“While I was watching this racial reckoning last summer, it was so clear to me that people were being heard to some degree, but there were no African American-owned platforms where people had their voice on a regular basis,” Smiley said according to USA Today. The media can lose interest when protests stop, he said, but the issues “that matter to us don’t go away.
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